MTL Graduate Program > Placement Statistics

Ph.D.s awarded (9/1/2000 - 8/31/2002): 11

• 7 in tenure-track positions
• 2 postdoc positions
• 2 part-time non-tenure track

Department/Programs:

• English(3)
• Asian-American Studies(1)
• American Studies(2)
• Film Studies(2)
• Ethnic Studies(1)
• Comparative Literary Studies(1)
• Humanities(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, 1998-2002

September, 2002

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

June, 2002

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

January, 2002

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

September, 2001

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

June, 2001

• 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
  
  

January, 2001

• 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

September, 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

June, 2000

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

March, 2000

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

January, 2000

• 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

September, 1999

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

June, 1999

• 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

April. 1999

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

January, 1999

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

June, 1998

• Brewer, Kenneth - Lost in a Book: Aesthetic Absorption 1820-1880
  
  
• Roberti, Derek S. - Economic Indicators: Force and Regulation in the Turn Of The Ce ntury United States
  
  
• Thomas, Ardel Marie - Victorian Monstrosities: Sexuality, Race, and the Construction of the Imperial Self, 1811-1924