Recent Ph.D. Alumni
Below is a listing of recent Department of English Ph.D. Alumni, their Dissertation Title, and Current Employment.
| Name Degree & Year |
Dissertation Title |
Current Employment |
| Lucas Hardy PhD 2012 |
Theologies of Pain in American Puritanism: the Human Body and Spiritual conversion from Anne Bradstreet to Jonathan Edward |
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the English Dept. at Youngstown State University in Ohio. |
| Joon Yoon PhD 2012 |
A Genealogy of Gaze and Voice in Godwin, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley |
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| Allison Craig PhD 2012 |
ONLY A GIRL LIKE THIS CAN KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED TO YOU": TRAUMATIC SUBJECTS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NARRATIVES. | |
| Iuliu Ratiu PhD 2012 |
Laying Out Land: Land Surveying and Space Configurations in Henry D. Thoreau's Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Journal, and "Walking" | Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow from the Wiring and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, located in Atlanta, GA. |
| HeeWon Kang PhD 2012 |
The Ethical Relation in Wordsworth and Lacan | |
| Scott O'Callaghan PhD 2011 |
Response in Real Time: Bringing Context to a Semester's Responses to Student Writing | Southern Vermont College Associate Professor |
| Alisa Scapatici PhD 2011 |
Beyond Digamy; Mary Elizabeth Raddon's Attempts to Challenge and Change Expectations of the Middle Class Victorian Woman | The Academies, Albany, NY English Teacher and Dept. Chair |
| Bethany Clerico PhD 2011 |
Caribbean Hauntings and Transnational Regionalism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century American Literature | Visiting Assistant Professor, English, UAlbany, Albany, NY |
| Katsuya Izumi PhD 2011 |
Speaking through Self-Effacement: The Sermonic Influence in Melville, Dickinson, and Thoreau | UAlbany, Albany, NY Adjunct Professor |
| Jennifer Marlow PhD 2011 |
Landmark Pedagogies Meet New Media Practices | College of St. Rose Assistant Professor |
| Mi-Jeong Kim PhD 2011 |
"Delta Woman with Faulkner and Hitchcock" | |
| Naoko Selland PhD 2011 |
PHOTOSYNTHESIZER A NOVEL And Critical Essay | |
| Bonghee Oh PhD 2010 |
Homelessness and Stranger-ness as Critical Potentialities in Early British Novels | |
| Carolyn Skebe PhD 2010 |
Spaces of Risk: the Modern Long Poem Revisited | UAlbany, Albany, NY Adjunct Professor |
| Richard J. Bower PhD 2010 |
Recovering Brande: Freewriting and Sustainable (Procedural) Expression | Cayuga County CC, Auburn, NY Professor |
| Charmaine Cadeau PhD 2010 |
"Silent Letters: Directions in Late Twentieth Century New Lyric Poetry." | High Point University, NC Assistant Professor |
| Michael Jonik PhD 2009 |
A Natural History of the Mind: Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville | Cornell University Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Ronald Nesbitt PhD 2009 |
The Femme Fatale and Male Anxiety in the 20th Century American Literature, "Hard-Boiled" Crime Fiction, and Film Noir | |
| Robert Michael Ficociello PhD 2009 |
"The Cultural and Literary Discourse of War in 20th Century America | University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney NE Assistant Professor |
| Randall Horton PhD 2009 |
Cultural Memory and the Black Radical Tradition: Distraction in the Monin | University of New Haven Assistant Professor |
| Matthew Pangborn PhD 2009 |
Specular Subjects: Technologies of Vision in the Transatlantic Novel, 1719-1850 | Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, IA Assistant Professor |
| Shari P. Goldberg PhD 2009 |
Quiet Testmony: the Ethical Impulse of Silence in Emerson, Douglass, Melville and James | University of Texas, Dallas Assistant Professor |
| Alexander Chirila PhD 2009 |
Manifast Individuation: Archetypal Progressions in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian | Thomas Nelson CC & Christopher Newport CC Adjunct Professor |
| Kelly Secovnie PhD 2009 |
Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary Approaches to African American Identify | Borough of Manhattan CC Assistant Professor |
| Samuel Truitt PhD 2008 |
Street Mete: A Work in Vertical Elegies | |
| Susan Kayorie PhD 2008 |
"I love Henry,…but I cannot like him": Thoreau among His Contemporaries | Hudson Valley CC Adjunct Faculty |
| Steven Hymowech PhD 2008 |
A Transcendental Trace: The Impersonal Poet and the American Novel. | Fulton-Montgomery CC English Instructor |
| Rita Mignacca PhD 2008 |
The United States of Italian America: Searching For the Italian Writer | Nazareth College, Rochester, NY Lecturer |
| Robert Wilkie III PhD 2008 |
Capital Networks: Culture and Class in the Digital Age | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Assistant Professor |
| Shirlee Dufort PhD 2008 |
Haiku Evolutions and a Fresh Rationale for Creating Collaboration, Connection, and Community in the College Classroom | Fulton-Montgomery CC Dean of Arts & Sciences |
| Menoukha Case PhD 2007 |
Ori and the Ethical Subject: Pro Indigenous Readings of African Diaspora Literature in Yoruba | Empire State College Assistant Professor |
| Edward C. Fristrom PhD 2007 |
The Turbulence of the Living: Complexity Theory and the Writing Classroom | Drexel University Assistant Professor |
| Kelly A. Moore PhD 2007 |
The Crosscurrents of Culture in the Dialogic Pairing of Henry James: What Maisie Knew with Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories and of Henry David Throureau's Walden with Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours | Award Winning Teacher at Niskayuna High School |
| David Parry PhD 2007 |
Reading Without Rest: Negotiating the (Hyper-)Literary in the Age of the Digital | University of Texas, Dallas Assistant Professor |
| Shealeen Meaney PhD 2006 |
"Skirts Must Be Girded High": Spaces of Subjectivity and Transgression in Post-Suffrage American Women's Travel Writing | Russell Sage College Assistant Professor |
| Pedro Malard Monteiro PhD 206 |
"Diagnosing Nothing But The Flu" | Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU) Assistant Professor |
| Michael Needle PhD 2006 |
Emotions at Work in Process Writing Classrooms | A&U: America's AIDS Magazine Managing Editor |
| Rachel Zitomer PhD 2006 |
In Celebration of the Ephemeral: Contemporary Poetry Communities Beyond Institutions in Albany, New York | University at Albany Part-Line Instructor |
| Patricia Dyjak PhD 2005 |
Snakes in the Garden: Power, Privilege, and Poetry in the Creation of Authority | College of Eastern Utah Assistant Professor |
| Habiba Ibrahim PhD 2005 |
Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth-Century American Culture |
University of Washington Associate Professor |
| Danielle Jones PhD 2005 |
Poetry in Three Dimensions: A Creative Dissertation of Print, Sculpture, and Electronic Poems | |
| Tyler Kessel PhD 2005 |
Landscape of Estrangement; Reading Relations to the Outside in DeLillo | Hudson Valley Community College Assistant Professor |
| Cailin Brown Leary PhD 2005 |
The Student Writer as the Citizen in Public Journals | College of St. Rose Assistant Professor |
| Kathleen McDonald PhD 2005 |
Unheard Voices: Women's Private Texts Enlighten the 18th Century | Norwich University Assistant Professor |
| Anthony Miccoli PhD 2005 |
Posthuman Suffering: The Expression of the Technological Embrace | Western State College of Colorado |
| Jennifer Mitchell PhD 2005 |
Sustaining a Critical Literacy in Composition Studies: The Place Of Current-Traditional Rhetoric in Composition Theory and Practice | SUNY at Potsdam |
| Jillmarie Murphy PhD 2005 |
Monstrous Kinships: Obsession and Child Psychotraumatology in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane and Vladimir Nabokov | Union College Assistant Professor |
| Karen Rowan PhD 2005 |
Preparing the Next Generation: Graduate Student Administrators in Writing Centers | Morgan State University Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Center |
| Linda Scoville PhD 2005 |
Fire and Wings: Drinking Women in Interwar British and American Literature Services Center | University at Albany Advisement |
| Julie Torrant PhD 2005 |
The Contemporary Family and Its Cultural Representations | Adirondack Community College |
| Jeffrey Gibson PhD 2004 |
The Parodic Historical Novel: Critiquing the Representation of Past Events | Wesley College Assistant Professor |
| Corel Lenhardt PhD 2004 |
The Unsayable: Three Generations of Malvadas | East Mecklenburg H.S., Charlotte, N.C. Faculty |
| Cynthia Mahamdi PhD 2004 |
The Renegado: A Novel of North Africa and Accompanying Commentary | Santa Clara University |
| Mary Perrone PhD 2004 |
Finding Common Ground: Paint, Politics, People and the Poet (The 1850s as Formative Years For The Writer Emily Dickinson) | Technology at Utica/Rome |
| Annie Raskin PhD 2004 |
Snapshots: A Collage Novel | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Adjunct Instructor |
| Alina Treis PhD 2004 |
Literacy Women, Private Person: Rebecca Harding Davis and Her Heart Ideology | Mohawk Valley Community College Assistant Professor |
| Wilbert Turner PhD 2004 |
Blackie: The Novel and the Postscript | Allendale Columbia (Independent Prep School) |
| Steven Hartman PhD 2003 |
Faces of Thoreau in American Literature | Växjö University, Sweden Assistant Professor Uppsala University, Sweden Research Fellow |
| Miehyeon Kim PhD 2003 |
Finding Mothers: Reconstruction of African American Motherhood, Family, Community, and History in Toni Morrison's Fiction | Ajou University, Korea |
| Dorothy Stringer PhD 2003 |
Dangerous and Disturbing: Traumas and Fetishes of Race in Faulkner, Larsen and Vanvechten | James Madison University Lecturer |
| Stephen Westbrook PhD 2003 |
Composition-Rhetoric, Creative Writing, and Institutional Reform: Toward a New Subject | California State University at Fullerton Assistant Professor |
| K. Hyoejin Yoon PhD 2003 |
The Subjects of Critical Pedagogy and Composition: The Asian American Teacher-Intellectual and the Problem of Affect | West Chester University Associate Professor |
| Ando Arike PhD 2002 |
What Are Humans For? Essays In Cyborg Culture | Editor, Williamsburg Observer |
| Merle Bachman PhD 2002 |
Yiddishland: Immigrant Writing and Threshold Poetics | Spalding University Assistant Professor |
| Judy Baker PhD 2002 |
Theatre Is Life: Fornes, Feminisms, and Feminist Epistemology | New Jersey Project William Paterson University |
| Rosanne Denhard PhD 2002 |
"Words Are Women": Early Modern Women's Epistolary Self-Writing | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor |
| Christiane Farnan PhD 2002 |
A Study of Narrative Authority in the Novels of Augusta Jane Evans and Harriet Beecher Stowe | Siena College Assistant Professor |
| Joan Goodman PhD 2002 |
Embodied Texts: Reading New Subjectivity Through Charles Olson and Muriel Rukeyers | |
| Mary Lannon PhD 2002 |
Life on a Grape with an Introduction on Theories of the Novel | Fulton Montgomery Community College |
| Alina Luna PhD 2002 |
Visual Perversity: A Rearticulation of Maternal Instinct | Western State College of Colorado Assistant Professor |
| Maria Palmara PhD 2002 |
The Farthest West Beach: An Italian American Woman's Search For Literacy Identity | Hudson Valley Community College Associate Professor |
| Alyssa Colton PhD 2001 |
The Faithful: Healing Through Narrative | University at Albany University in the High School |
| Maryrose Eannace PhD 2001 |
Lunatic Literature: New York State's The Opal, 1850-1860 | Cazenovia College |
| Thomas Mackey PhD 2001 |
Collaborative Interface: Writing the Web and Interactive Multimedia and Virtual Reality | University at Albany School of Information Science and Policy |
| Christina Milletti PhD 2001 |
Innovative Ends: Gender and the Poetics of Transformation in Women's Experimental Fiction | University at Buffalo Assistant Professor |
| Megeen Mulholland PhD 2001 |
Unposing the American Family Portrait – Part 1 – Feminist Confessional | Hudson Valley Community College |
| Dimitrios Anastasopoulos PhD 2000 |
The Language of Fiction and Its Limits | University of Buffalo |
| Christine Atkins PhD 2000 |
Don't Walk Alone: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Narratives of Violence | |
| Frances Condon (Vanmeter) PhD 2000 |
Teaching to Transform: Nonviolence and Literacy | St. Cloud State University |
| Michael Hassan PhD 2000 |
Beach Rubble | |
| Deborah Kelsh PhD 2000 |
Outlawed Needs: Class and Cultural Theory | College of St. Rose Associate Professor |
| Lisa Mastrangelo PhD 2000 |
Stories of a Progressive Past: Early Feminist and Progressive Approaches to Writing Instruction | |
| Sharisse Sternberg PhD 2000 |
Professing and Pedagogy: Learning the Teaching of English | Creighton University |
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