Placements
Our small, individualized program graduates 2-4 candidates a year. From 2011 to 2024, 75% of all candidates who completed the program—or 55% counting those who withdrew before completing a dissertation—found full-time academic employment as teachers, professors, higher education administrators, or librarians. Other alumni have found full-time work in sectors including publishing, business, and financial services.Â
The years below refer to graduation years rather than the year of the commencement of the position. Each line represents a unique graduate.
Placements, 2011–2023
2024
- Postdoctoral Fellowship under the Writing Director, University of Florida
- Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
- Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, Gordon College (MA) (tenure-track)
2023
- Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, Milligan University (TN)
2022
- Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, Korea (tenure-track)
- Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2021
- Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Honors Program, Merrimack College; Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP), ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ (declined); Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern University (declined)
- New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
- Visiting Lecturer, Mount Holyoke College
2020
- Assistant Professor, ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ (tenure-track); was Yeats Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish Literature and Keough-Naughton Institute National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, University of Notre Dame, and Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Cork
2018
- Special Collections Reference Librarian, University of Utah (tenure-track); was Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
- Assistant Director of Digital Fundraising, Penn State University
- Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Plattsburgh (tenure-track)
- Assistant Professor of the Practice, ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ (full-time non-tenure-track)
2017
- Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s College, CA (tenure-track)
2015
- Chair, Department of Professional Studies, Purdue University Global (full-time non-tenure-track); was Lecturer on English, Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College, Leverett House, and Assistant Dean of Students, Harvard College, Harvard University (full-time non-tenure-track) and Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of English (tenure-track), United States Military Academy aka West Point
- Associate Professor, University of Montevallo, AL (tenured)
2014
- Writing Services Specialist, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
- Assistant Professor, Molloy University, MA (tenure-track); also Assistant Professor, Hostos Community College, NY (tenure-track; declined)
- Teacher, One Schoolhouse, Washington, DC; was Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin (two-year)
- Assistant Professor of the Practice of English, ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ (full-time non-tenure-track)
- Clinical Associate Professor, New York University (full-time non-tenure-track); was VAP there
- Assistant Professor in Residence, Writing Program and Writing Center Liaison, University of Connecticut at Avery Point (full-time non-tenure-track); was Academic Center Manager there
- Teacher, Upper Division of The Bryn Mawr School
2013
- VAP, Skidmore College (three-year)
- Assistant Professor, Quincy University, IL (tenure-track); was VAP there
- Assistant Professor, Arcadia University, PA (tenure-track)
2012
- Advisor, Academic Standards Board, University of Michigan; was Assistant Professor, Marygrove College, MI (tenure-track)
2011
- Associate Professor, Brigham Young University (tenured); was VAP there
- Teacher, Lusher Charter School, LA; was Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University
- Assistant Professor, Barnard College
- Associate Professor, Boise State University
- Associate Professor, Brigham Young University (distinct from 2011 placement)
- Associate Professor, ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ
- Senior Learning Experience Designer, Center for Digital Innovation in Learning, ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ
- Chair of Rhetoric, Boston University
- Master Lecturer, Boston University
- Assistant Professor, Christendom College, VA
- Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
- Assistant Professor, Cornell University
- Lecturer in Writing, Dartmouth College
- Assistant Professor, Diablo Valley College, CA (community college)
- Professor, Fairmont State University, WV
- Associate Professor, Gordon College, MA
- Associate Professor, Hood College, MD
- Associate Professor, Idaho State University
- Teacher, Indian Hill High School, OH
- Director of First-Year Seminars and Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, GA
- Instructor, Las Positas College, CA
- Associate Professor, LeMoyne College, NY
- Assistant Professor, Macon State College
- Associate Professor, Maynooth University, Ireland
- Associate Professor, Metropolitan College of New York
- Associate Professor, Monroe Community College, NY
- Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College
- Professor, Oklahoma City University School of Law
- Assistant Professor, Penn State at Altoona
- Associate Professor, Pine Manor College
- Lecturer in the Writing Seminar Program, Princeton University
- Associate Professor, Reed College
- Associate Professor, Sarah Lawrence College
- Associate Professor, Simmons College
- Associate Professor, University of Akron
- Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
- Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield
- Digital Marketing Officer, University of Manchester, UK
- Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Associate Professor, University of Michigan at Flint
- Assistant Professor, University of Mobile
- Associate Professor, University of Mount Union, OH
- Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Upstate
- Chair of English, University of Toledo
- Associate Professor, Wayne State University
- Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
- Teacher, Weston High School, CT
- Assistant Professor, William Patterson University, NJ