welcome

Welcome to the Placement page for the USC Department of English!

Below you'll find placement info for the last six years. In some cases I've put down diss topics rather than actual titles -- part of the newly constructed nature of the page.

Feel free to post questions, either by emailing me directly via the link under "view my complete profile" or by posting a question to the comment area below each post. I'll try to help as much as possible.

Also, you can find useful information on News and Events in the English Department by following this URL:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/engl/news

And here's a link to more info about our graduate placement program:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/engl/programs/graduate_car.shtml

Enjoy!!! And I look forward to hearing from you.
Prof. Lemon

2007-8

2007-8:

Memo Arce, Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of Texas-Arlington
Dissertation: A Nation in Uniform: Chicano/ Latino War Literature and the Construction of Nation 1951 – 1976.

Michael Blackie, Assistant Professor, tenure track, Hiram College in their Literature and Medicine program
Dissertation: Rest Cures: The Narrative Life of a Medical Practice

Beth Bingelli, 2-year Postdoc, University of Chicago in Film and Lit
Dissertation: 'Obviously not for the Screen:' Race, Hollywood Story Searches, and the Revenge of Unfilmable Narrative

Jenny Conary: Assistant Professor, tenure track, De Paul University in Chicago
Dissertation: Beautiful Lost Causes: Quixotic Reform and the Victorian Novel

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs: Assistant Professor, tenure track, St. Olaf's College
Dissertation: critical study on transnational adoption; creative work is a book of poetry entitled Paper Pavilion

Unhae Langis: Assistant Professor, tenure track, Slippery Rock State College in Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Disciplined Passion: Virtuous Moderation in Shakespearean Drama

Frank Mabee, Assistant professor, tenure track, Fitchburg State
Dissertation: The Pastured Sea: Maritime Radicalism and British Romanticism

Marci McMahon: Assistant Professor, tenure track, University of Texas, Pan American
Dissertation: Domestic Negotiations: Chicana Domesticity as a Critical Discourse of U.S. Literature and Culture

James Penner, Assistant Professor, tenure-track, English Department of the College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (San Juan).
Dissertation: "Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture from the Depression to the Sexual Revolution."

2005-7

2005-7:
Sam Park: Assistant Professor, tenure track, at Columbia College in Chicago;
Dissertation: Theatrical Metaphors and the Performance of Race in Asian American Drama.

Jennifer Stoever: Assistant Professor, tenure track, at SUNY-Binghamton;
Dissertation: Soundscapes of Race: African American Literature and the Cultural Politics of Listening

Ava Chin: Assistant Professor, tenure track, at SUNY-Staten Island;
Dissertation: creative work is book of short stories

Kevin Laam: Assistant Professor, tenure track, at Oakland University;
Dissertation: Borrowed Heaven: Early Modern Devotion and the Art of Happiness

Mary Beth Tegan: Assistant Professor, tenure track, at Xavier College in Chicago;
Dissertation: “Vanity’s Heirs: Feminist Readers’ Reflections Within the Mirror of Romance, 1788-1876”

Memo Arce: postdoctoral fellowship at Bowdoin College;
Dissertation: A Nation in Uniform: Chicano/ Latino War Literature and the Construction of Nation 1951 – 1976.

James Penner: Visiting Assistant Professor at Dickinson College;
Dissertation: Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity and American Literary Culture from the Depression to the Sexual Revolution.

Sun Hee Theresa Lee: Visiting Assistant Professor at Carleton College.
Disssertation: Self-Reflexivity and Minority Politics in Contemporary American Literature and Performance.

2002-5

2004-5:
Chris Abani, Associate Professor at University of California, Riverside; dissertation: CW/PhD -- produced novel

Vidhu Aggarwal, Assistant professor, tenure track, Rollins College
Dissertation: Undecidable Cases: Investigations into Lyric Modes and Affective Processes

Elizabeth Bleicher, Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Ithaca College
Dissertation: “Whom Do You Take me For?": Narrative Self-fashioning and Confidence in Victorian Fiction

Jitender Gill, University of New Delhi
Dissertation: Servants of the Raj: The Colonial and his Fictions, 1770 to 1930

Jinny Huh, Assistant professor, tenure track, University of Vermont and postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA
Dissertation: The Arresting Eye: Race and the Detection of Deception

Frank Mabee, Visiting Assistant professor, University of Tennessee
Dissertation: The Pastured Sea: Maritime Radicalism and British Romanticism

Cindy Sarver, Assistant professor, tenure track, SUNY-Cortland
Dissertation: Seeing in the Dark: Race, Representation, and the Ethics of Visuality in Literary Modernism

Onita Vaz, Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Davidson College
Dissertation: Perpetual Self-Duplication: Coleridge’s Practice of Revision

2002-4:

John Bruns, Assistant Professor, tenure-track, College of Charleston
Dissertation: Loopholes: Reading Comically

Sumangala Bhattacharya, Assistant professor, Pitzer College
Dissertation: Victorian Hunger

Arnab Chakladar, Assistant professor, tenure track, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dissertation: At Home in the World: Indian Literature in the Postcolonial Academy

Molly Engelhardt, Assistant Professor, tenure track, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi.
Dissertation: Dancing out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Victorian Bodies in Motion

Desmond Harding, Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Central Michigan University
Dissertation: Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (pb. Routledge, 2003)

Edward Schantz, Assistant professor, tenure track, McGill University
Dissertation: Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature

Sean Zwagerman, Assistant professor, tenure track, Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: At Wit’s End: The Rhetoric of Humor and the Ends of Talk