Doctoral Alumni Job Placement

Shastri Akella, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Rhode Island
Ph.D. 2020; dissertation title:  "Community of Pathos: Resistance through Representation in Migrant Art" 

Daniel Armenti, Assistant Professor of Italian, High Point University
Ph.D. 2020; dissertation title: "Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary" 

Adile Aslan Almond, Lecturer, Comparative Literature, Georgetown University in Qatar
Ph.D. 2024; dissertation title: "Literature Before the Catastrophe: the Armenian Question and the Jewish Question in the Works of Raffi (Hakob Melik Hakobian), Theodor Herzl, Arthur Schnitzler, and Franz Werfel"

Manuela Borzone, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Occidental College
Ph.D. 2020; dissertation title: "Time Bound: Gauchesca and its Print Culture, 1872-2011"

Sara Ceroni, International Education Manager
Ph.D. 2019; dissertation title: “The Matrix of Imperial Rome in Modernist and Postcolonial Literature”

Esther Cuesta Santana, Member of the National Assembly of Ecuador
Ph.D. 2014; dissertation title: “Documenting the (Un)documented: Diasporic Ecuadorian Narratives in Southern/Mediterranean Europe"

Jeffrey Diteman, Instructor, Pioneer Valley Regional School
Ph.D. 2023; dissertation title: "Creolizing Mestizaje: Cultural Hybridity and Nurture Kinship in Latin American Literature"

Shannon Farley, Assistant Principal, Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter School
Ph.D. 2015; dissertation title: "Translation, Rewriting, and Fan Fiction: a Literary History of Transformative Work"

Maryam Fatima, American University in Dubai
Ph.D. 2023; dissertation title: "Partitions and Palimpsests: Transgressions of Form and Territory in Postcolonial Urdu and Arabic Writing"

Matthew Goodwin, Assistant Professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies, University of New Mexico
Ph.D. 2013; dissertation title: “The Fusion of Migration and Science Fiction in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States”

Hyongrae Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean, Auburn University
Ph.D. 2020; dissertation title: "A Parrot Perched on a Rifle: Military Interpreters in the Korean Conflict 1945-1953"

Xu Li, Assistant Professor of English, the College of Arts and Sciences at Fuyao University of Science and Technology
Ph.D. 2025; dissertation title: “Chinese Allegory: Speaking Otherwise in Non-Modern Literary Networks”

Siobhan Mei, Teaching Faculty, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass, Amherst
Ph.D. 2022; dissertation title:  "Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery"

Madalina Meirosu, Assistant Professor of Romanian Studies, Arizona State University
Ph.D. 2017; dissertation title: "The Eloquence of Automata: Socio-Political Commentary in Nineteenth-Century Literature on Artificial Humanoids” 

Nahir Otaño Gracia, Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico
Ph.D. 2014; dissertation title: "Arthur’s Heirs: Situating Medieval Welsh, Spanish, and Scandinavian Texts in Their Literary and Historical Contexts"

Mehtap Özdemir, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University
Ph.D. 2022; dissertation title: "The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity"

Daniel Pope, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, Film Studies, UMass Amherst
Ph.D. 2013; dissertation title:  “Enigmatic Realism: Doing Justice through Photography and Figuration in Sebald, Marias, and Hemon” 

Alexander Ponomareff, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, University of South Florida
Ph.D. 2020; dissertation title: "Salvage Media: A Materialist Inquiry into the Limits of Visual, Aural, and Textual Clarity" 

Krzysztof Rowinski,  Thomas Brown Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Ph.D. 2021; dissertation title: "Never-lasting Effects: John Williams, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bruno Jasieński, and Non-redemptive Failure"

Sandra Joy Russell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Ph.D. 2022; dissertation title: "Embodiment and Gendered Subjectivity in Ukrainian Women's Film, Poetry, and Prose during Perestroyka (1985-1991)"

Barry Spence, Senior Lecturer, Film Studies and Comparative Literature, UMass Amherst
Ph.D. 2017

Anna Strowe, Lecturer in Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester
Ph.D. 2014; dissertation title: "‘Io scrittore’: Authorial Self-Construction in Renaissance Italian Literature and its Translation into English”

Eyal Tamir, Lecturer of Hebrew, Washington University in St. Louis
Ph.D. 2021; dissertation title: "Dirty Minds & Failed Endings: Uses of the Bawdy in Jewish Comedy, American and Israeli Perspectives"

Frans Weiser, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, University of Georgia
Ph.D. 2011; dissertation title: "Con-Scripting the Masses: False Documents and Historical Revisionism in the Americas”