2006 - Katie Kalish (PhD 2006) has accepted a tenure track job at UW--Marshfield.
Jen Heinert (PhD 2006) has accepted a tenure-track job at UW-Rock County.
2005 - Amy Branam
(PhD 2005) is pleased to announce that she has accepted
a tenure-track position at Frostburg State University
in Frostburg, Maryland.
2004 - Doug Van Benthuysen (MA '02) is English & Communications Department Chair at Bryant & Stratton College, Milwaukee Campus.
2003 - Shannon Forbes (PhD 2002) accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas.
Colin Irvine (PhD 2002) accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at Augsburg College.
2002 - Galina Yermolenko (PhD 2001) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Humanities division at DeSales University in Center Valley, PA.
Shannon Forbes, Colin Irvine, and Michael Mattek all earned the PhD this spring after successful dissertation defenses: "Reading Into It: Wallace Stegner’s Novelistic Sense of Time and Place" (Irvine); "Brisbane & Beyond: Revising Social Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America" (Mattek).
2001 - Richard Erable (PhD 1999) received a tenure-track (Assistant Professor of English) position at Franklin College in Indiana. Richard's dissertation was entitled, "Setting the word against the word: The search for self-understanding in Richard II" (Chair: James Stephens)
Galina Yermolenko graduated from the doctoral program in May. Her dissertation was "'Strange Disguize': Allegory and its Discontents in Spenser's Faerie Queene" (Chair: Michael McCanles). Galina is teaching at Marquette now as a lecturer. Her specialities are Renaissance literature and dramatic literature in general.
Heather Moran (PhD 2000) is Assistant Professor of English at Silver Lake College, Wisconsin. Her dissertation was "'Making Strange:' The Art and Science of Selfhood in the Works of John Banville" (Chair: Michael Gillespie).
David White (PhD 1998) is an instructor at Cardinal Stritch University. His dissertation was "The Otherness of Blackness: Emergent Ambiguities in Early American Prose Literature" (Chair: Joseph DeFalco).
2000 - Three recent Ph.D. students landed tenure-track Assistant Professor positions this year:
Mary's dissertation was entitled "Contextualizing Spiritual Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe" (Chair: Tim Machan), Jenny's "Writing Guadalupe: Mediación and (Mis)Translation in Borderland Text(o)s" (Chair: Heather Hathaway), and Jay's "Spheral Change: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Envisioning an Alternative Victorian Masculinity" (Chair: Christine Krueger).
1999 - Erik Ankerberg (ABD) was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University-Ann Arbor.
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