Placement

Ph.D.s awarded
(2000-2010): 40

  • 26 secured tenure-track positions in colleges or universities 

  • 5 received post-doc appointments (Harvard, Princeton, Stanford)
  • 5 secured adjunct positions in the academy
  • 4 did not go on the academic job market

 

Department/Programs

  • English (13)
  • American Studies (4)
  • Women's Studies (3)
  • Ethnic Studies (3)
  • Rhetoric (3)
  • Film Studies (2)
  • Ethics (1)
  • International Studies (1)
  • Anthropology (1)
  • Humanities (2)
  • Comparative Literary Studies (1)

 

Ph.D.'s awarded
(1994 - 1999): 27

  • 15 are currently (to the best of our knowledge) in tenure-track positions (at Brown, Fordham, New School, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo, University of Arizona, University of Iowa, University of North Carolina, UT Austin, University of Virginia, Wesleyan, etc.);
  • 5 did not go on the academic market;
  • 5 are teaching in non-tenure-track jobs;
  • 1 new Ph.D. is still on job market for 1999-2000 teaching;
  • 1 alum, for whom we have no current information, received a 2-year post-doc immediately following degree conferral.

 

Dissertations Completed in Modern Thought and Literature
Stanford University, 1998-2010

2010

Thomas Matza - Subjects of Freedom: Psychology and Politics in Post-Socialist Russia

Sarah Ramierez - Enumerating Invisibility, Humanizing Number: Public Health and the Production of Inequalities, 1848-1947

Jason Sae-Saue - Southwest Asia: Asian American and Chicana/o History and Literature in an Inter-Ethnic Con-text

Vida Maria Garcia -When the "Other" is Ourselves: Imperial Legacies, Tourist Imaginaries, and the Representation of Difference in Chicana/o Travel Writing and Cultural Production

Nigel Hatton - A Novel Idea - Global Humanitarian Rights and Literature After 1945

2009          

Nirvana Tanoukhi - The Novel Beyond Recognition: Literature, Scale, Landscape   

Sarah Richardson - Gendering the Genome: Sex Chromosomes in Twentieth Century Genetics       

Allegra McLeod - Exporting U.S. Criminal Justice: Crime, Development, and Empire After the Cold War   

Steven Lee - Multiculturalism Versus 'Multi-National-Ness": The Clash of American and Soviet Models of Difference

2008            

Ulka Anjaria - Eyes Turned toward the Future": The Realist Novel and Imaginations of the State in India, 1920-1947

Ebony Coletu - Forms of Submission: Acts of Writing in Moments of Need       

Teresa Pellinen-Chavez - Shining Paths: Tourism and the Marketing of Innocence in Southern Peru

Beth Piatote - Home/Ward Bound: The Making of Domestic Relations in Native American Literature and Law, 1886-1936

2006           

Maya Dodd - "Archives of Democracy": Technologies of Witness in Literatures on Indian Democracy since 1975

Maria Ruth Flores - Knowledge Morena and Literacies de Colores:  Toward the Embodyment of Life Giving Knowledges in the Arts, in Poetry, and Song      

Magdalena Barrera - Estamos sumidos: Reading, Hearing and Seeing Mexican America, 1910-1941

2005           

Evelyn Alsultany - The Changing Profile of Race in the United States: Representing and Racializing Arab- and Muslim-Americans Post 9/11

Jackson, Shona - Between myth and nation: rethinking Caribbean history, politics, literature, and aesthetics

2004           

Coronado, Raul - Competing American Colonial Modernities:  Politics, Publishing, and the Making of a U.S.-Mexican Literary Culture

Dass, Manishita - Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and Nation in India

Tompkins, Kyla - Kitchen Culture: Eating, Literature and the Body Politic

Arellano, Lisa - Lynching and the American Past: Violence, Narrative and Identity        

Kozak, Romy - Sounding Out: Musical Ekphrasis, Sexuality and the Writings of Willa Cather

2003           

Goeman, Mishuana - Unconquered Nations, Unconquered Women: NativeWomen Writers (Re)mapping Race, Gender, and Nation                         

Price, Yvonne - What Beauty is Their Own: Fire!!s Significance inThe Harlem Renaissance                        

Ben-zvi, Yael - Setting Instincts: Origin Fictions of Native-Born Settlers

2002

Rytkonen, Helle - Europe and Its "Almost-European" Other: A textual Analysis of Legal and Cultural Practices of Othering in Contemporary Europe

Mani, Bakirathi - The Imagination of South Asian America: Cultural Politics in the Making of Diaspora

Contreras, Daniel - "What Have You Done to My Heart": Popular Culture, Race, and the Question of Utopia

2001

Pandya, Sameer - The Late Colonial Self: The Nationalist Autobiography in India, 1927-1951

Bomberry, Victoria - Indigenous Memory and Imagination: Thinking Beyond the Nation 

Fleetwood, Nicole Hickman - Documenting "The Real": Youth, Race, and the Discourse of Realness in Visual Culture

Shimizu, Celine Parrenas - Making Woman Asian: Racialized Sexuality On Screen and Scene

Cotera, Maria - "Native Speakers": Locating Early Expressions of U.S. Third World Feminist Discourse, A Comparative Analysis of the Ethnographic and Literary Writing of Ella Cara Deloria and Jovita Gonzalez

2000

Benjamin, Richard - Youth Apocalypse the Contemporary Culture and Politics of Young White Males 

Schmidt-Camacho, Alicia - Migrant Subjects: Race, Labor and Insurgency in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands

Thompson, Lisa - Sex Talk: Black Middle Class Women Represent Sexuality

Gonzalez, Ray Marcial - The Postmodern Turn in Chicana/o Cultural Studies: Toward a Dialectical Criticism

Brawn, Shaleen - Repurposing Uncle Tom: Incidents in the Post Publication Life of a Text and Its Author

Gamez, Alicia Maria - Making American Nature: Scientific Narratives of Origin and Literary Conceptions of Race in the Early American Republic

Schell, Heather - The Victorian Book of Man-Eaters: On the Evolution of Cannibals, Seductresses, and Tigers
 
Tannock, Stuart - Stopgap Workers: Youth and Labor in Fastfood and Grocery

 1999

Stein, Rebecca Luna - National Itineraries: Tourism, Nation-Making, and Geographies of "Peace" in Contemporary Israel

Kuduk, Stephanie Ann - Republican Aesthetics: Poetry and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Britain  

Mesa, Christina Ann - White Guise and Dark White Women in 19th Century American Literature: A Study of Purity and Miscegenation

Morales, Michael - Vivisecting the Nation's Body: Ritual, Blood Sacrifice in the Work of Luis Valdez, August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks

Cadora, Karen - The Limits of Lesbiana: Race and Class in Twentieth Century Lesbian Genre Fiction

Scott, Darieck Bruce - Closet Case Readings of the Black Male Figure in 20th Century African American Literature

1998

Brewer, Kenneth - Lost in a Book: Aesthetic Absorption 1820-1880

Roberti, Derek S. - Economic Indicators: Force and Regulation in the Turn Of The Century United States

Thomas, Ardel Marie - Victorian Monstrosities: Sexuality, Race, and the Construction of the Imperial Self, 1811-1924