Graduate student job placement history
Follow the trajectory of our English Wayne State Warriors!
| Year | Name | Dissertation | Appointment | Institution | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Allan Ford | Literature Unbound: Black Carceral Consciousness form 1965-1975 | Lisa Ze Winters | ||
| 2024 | Corey Hamilton | Attendance and Absence of the Laity: Acknowledging the Rhetoric of an American Protestant Megachurch | Pruchnic & Sackey | ||
| 2024 | Colleen Hart | Evidence of Empathy in Rhetoric and Composition Studies: Tracing Empathy in the Writing Classroom, Discipline, and Beyond | Jankens | ||
| 2024 | Christopher Susak | Remixing Community Cartographies: Mapping Community Engagement, New Media, and the Composition Classroom | Assistant professor | Wayne State University | Pruchnic |
| 2024 | Melanie Zynel | A Tedious and Comfortless Uniformity of Time: Narratives of Aging in the Long Eighteenth Century | Maruca | ||
| 2023 | Mariel Krupansky | Inclusivity, Access, and Identity in Contraceptive Health Discourses | Lecturer in technical communication | University of Michigan | Pruchnic |
| 2023 | Walter Lucken IV | I Am Because We Are: Freedom Dreams in Rhetoric and Writing Studies | Assistant professor | CUNY Queens College | Marback |
| 2023 | Elia Newsom | Severe Constraints, Radical Possibilities: Reimagining Critical Pedagogy in the First-Year Writing Classroom | Teaching assistant professor | University of Colorado-Boulder | Marback |
| 2023 | Kelly Plante | Death Writing: Gender and Necrpolitics in the Atlantic World (1660-1840) | Adjunct professor | Washtenaw Community College | Maruca |
| 2023 | Felicia Preece | Making Geography Come Alive: Hemingway & Representing Space in Mid-Century America | Adjunct professor | Henry Ford College | Watten |
| 2022 | Suzette Bristol | Labor Logs in a Multimodal Curriculum: Revealing Valuable Assessment Practices in Technical Communication and First-Year Writing Courses | Visiting professor | Grand Valley State University | Jankens |
| 2021 | Anthony DeGenaro | The Writers-First Principle: An Expressivist Approach to First-Year Writing Instruction & Teacher Research | Assistant professor | University of Detroit-Mercy | Marback |
| 2021 | Kelly Polasek | Antiwar Literature in the US since 1945 | Lecturer | University of Michigan | Flatley |
| 2020 | Noha Beydoun | The Politics of Hijab in American Culture | Lecturer | University of Michigan | Chandra |
| 2020 | Ruth Boeder | Named But Not Known: Teaching and Assessing the Research-Writing Process | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Pruchnic |
| 2020 | Rachel Dortin | Toward an Ecofeminist Embodied Pedagogy: A Study of Difference in Online and Offline | Assistant professor | University of Central Arkansas | Sackey |
| 2020 | Sarah Primeau | Developing and Assessing a Cultural Rhetorics-Oriented First-Year Composition Course | Lecturer | University of Illinois Chicago | Barton |
| 2020 | Clare Russell | Curricular Inquiry: A Survey of Writing Pedagogy Practicum Instructors | Lecturer | University of Pittsburgh | Pruchnic and Sackey |
| 2020 | Hillary Weiss | Coming Out as Complex: Understanding LGBTQ+ Community Writing Groups | Writing advisor | MedSchoolCoach | |
| 2020 | Nadia Mohammad | Reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetry in Terms of Spirituality and Feminism | PTF in CMLLC | Wayne State University | Scrivener |
| 2019 | Eric Abbey | Distillation of Sound: Dub in Jamaica and the Creation of Culture | Professor | Oakland Community College | Shaviro |
| 2019 | Kevin Ball | Sonic Motion and Heaviness in Black Media | Special lecturer | Oakland University | Kee |
| 2019 | Erin Bell | Words [Don't Always] Fail Me: Contemplating the Complexities of Gender and Genre in American Short Fiction by Women | Lecturer | Baker College | hoogland |
| 2019 | Catherine Donaldson | Technical Communication Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of Online Gaming | Lecturer | Henry Ford Collge | Ranney |
| 2019 | Ian Kennedy | Unsound Media: An Archaeology of Technics at the Limits of the Audible | Lecturer | University of Michigan Dearborn | Shaviro |
| 2019 | Nabilah Khachab | Enfreakment: Bodies as Spectacle in Children's and Young Adult Fiction | Acls emerging voices fellowship | Division of Arts & Humanities, University of California | Maruca |
| 2019 | Joseph Lewis | Blackness and the Rhetoric of Racism in the University of Cape Town's Rhodes Must Fall Movement and the University of Missouri's Concerned Student 1950 Movement | Postdoctoral fellowship | University of North Carolina | Marback |
| 2019 | Sean Milligan | A Rhetoric of Zaniness: The Case of Pepe the Frog | Visiting assistant professor | Grand Valley State University | Marback |
| 2019 | Aaron Pellerin | Everday Transcendence: Contemporary Art Film and the Return to Right Now | Shaviro | ||
| 2019 | Theodore Prassinos | Under the Sign of Suicide | Flatley | ||
| 2018 | Shawn Cooper | Chivalry and Governance in Malory's Le Morte Darthur and Tennyson's Idylls of the King | Assistant professor, postdoctoral fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideal and Institutions | Rochester University, Princeton University | Maun |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Acosta | Gender, Geography, and Alterity in Shakespeare | Associate professor of English | El Paso Community College | Jackson |
| 2018 | Bradley Flis | Border Ends: Anti-Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and the Mexican Revolution in U.S. Modernism | Instructor | Southwestern College | Watten |
| 2018 | Judith Lakmper | Affective Dissonance: (Post)Feminism and Popular Cultural Expressions of Motherhood | Assistant editor | Lexington Press/ Fortress Academic imprint at Rowman & Littlefield | hoogland |
| 2018 | Sean Levenson | Theatrical Scholars: Characters in Early Modern Popular Drama | Assistant professor of English | Tarrant County College | Chess |
| 2018 | Peter Marra | Queer Slashers | Adjunct instructor | Wayne State University | Kee and Shaviro |
| 2018 | Vytautas Malesh | Blue to BDU: The Five Canons of Rhetoric and the Text of the Police Uniform | Instructor in English | Florida International University | Ranney |
| 2018 | Marcus Merritt | The Center of All Beauty: Radical Democracy and Critical Knowledge of the Poetic Subject in 20th-Century American Poetry | Adjunct instructor | College for Creative Studies | Watten |
| 2018 | Mindy Myers | Democratic Communication: Lessons from the Flint Water Crisis | Visiting assistant professor | Kettering University | Marback |
| 2018 | Katrina Newsom | Toward a Theory of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, and Identity in the Age of America's Work Crisis | Assistant professor | Tennessee State University | Chandra |
| 2018 | Kemael Johnson | Ambivalent Subversive Narratives: John Thelwall, Mary Prince, and John Clare | Scrivener | ||
| 2017 | Renuka Uthappa | This is Us Saying Who We Are: Speaking the Rhetoric of Mental Disability | Visiting assistant professor | Adrian College | Marback |
| 2017 | Reema Barlaskar | Servant Voices and Tales in the British Gothic Novel, 1764-1847 | Adjunct instructor | Wanye State University | Scrivener |
| 2017 | Chinmayi Kattemalavadi | (An) Unsettled Commons: Narrative and Trauma After 911 | Adjunct instructor | Macomb Community College | Flatley |
| 2017 | Lisa Kannianen | Strange Lands of Opportunity--Representations of Moral, Social, and Economic Profit in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature | Teacher | Dearborn Public Schools Dearborn | Goodrich |
| 2017 | Judith Lakemper | Affective Dissonance: (Post)Feminism and Popular Cultural Expressions of Motherhood | Assistant editor | Lexington Press | hoogland |
| 2016 | Alisa Alkins | After the Clinic: Gendered Pathology in Modernist Literature | Full-time faculty | Harold Washington College | Watten |
| 2016 | Vincent Haddad | Novelistic Intimacies: Reading and Writing in the Late Age of Print | Assistant professor | Department of Humanities | hoogland |
| 2016 | Derek Risse | Politics and Pedagogy: Recuperating Rhetoric and Composition's Native Ethical Tradition | Adjunct instructor | Wayne State University | Pruchnic |
| 2016 | Jule Thomas | The Role of Explicit Genre Pedagogy and Genre Awareness: Investigating Student Perceptions of Instructor Feedback in Intermediate Composition | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Barton |
| 2016 | Nicole Varty | Ecological Awareness: Enacting an Ecological Composition Curriculum to Encourage Student Knowledge Transfer | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Pruchnic |
| 2016 | Erin Bell | Words [Don't Always] Fail Me: Contemplating the Complexities of Gender and Genre in American Short Fiction by Women | Full-time English instructor | Baker College, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies-Academic Affairs | hoogland |
| 2016 | Marie Buck | Weird Propaganda: Texts of the Black Power and Women's Liberation Movements | Managing editor | SocialText | Flatley |
| 2016 | Wendy Duprey | Reconceptualizing the Construct of the Individual Writer in Composition Studies: A Felt Life Model of Writing | Staff | Osceola Writing Center, Valencia College | Barton |
| 2016 | Renuka Gusain | On Beauty and Ethics in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries | Lecturer in humanities | University of North Carolina at Asheville | Jackson |
| 2016 | Amy Lataweic | Self-Directed Learning and the Development of Self-Efficacy in Basic Writing | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Gorzelsky |
| 2016 | Theresa Lindsey | Rethinking the Mulatto Character and National Identity: 1865 and Beyond in African American and Brazilian Literature | Assistant director | Office of Dual Enrollment | Boyd |
| 2016 | Seki Masahiko | Time in American High Modernism: Reading Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkne | Associate professor | Kanagawa University | Maun |
| 2016 | Michael McGinnis | Public Subjects: Wayne State, Institutional Texts, and Public Rhetoric | Lecturer in English | University of Alabama at Huntsville | Barton |
| 2016 | Joseph Paszek | The Role of Enculturation in Student Writing-Related Beliefs, Values, and the Potential for Transfer | Assistant professor | University of Detroit Mercy | Gorzelsky |
| 2016 | Luke Thominet | Emerging Genres of Online Technical Communication | Assistant professor of professional and technical writing | Florida International University | Pruchnic |
| 2016 | Adam Yerima | Saving Innocents: Tracing the Human Monster Hunter's Hetero-Normative Agenda from the 1970s to Today | English and language arts academic aide | A Place Called Home | Kee |
| 2016 | Mary Claire Karcher | Adjunct prof | Frostburg State U | ||
| 2015 | Shandi Wagner | Sowing Seeds of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive use of Fairy Tales and Folklore | Instructor in English | Indiana State University | Scrivener |
| 2015 | Matthew Cicci | Turning the Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, and the Transformation of the 'Comic Book' Superhero | Assistant professor of digital rhetoric | Alma College | Kee |
| 2015 | Ruth Haller (ABD) | Assistant professor | Henry Ford College | ||
| 2015 | Cindy Mooty-Hoffman | A Recursive Service Learning Program: Empowering Students of Color Traveling Within Community Borders | Professor | Oakland Community College | Gorzelsky and Pruchnic |
| 2015 | Ashley Whitmore | Life is a Luminous Halo': Gender and Androgynous Time in Virginia Woolf | Lecturer | University of Michigan Dearborn | Vlasopolos |
| 2015 | Clay Walker | Literacy Potentials: Agency, Embodiment, and Hybridity in Cézar Chávez's Discourse Practices | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Gorzelsky |
| 2015 | Wilkie Collins | Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Noatalgia, Communal Memory, and the Burden of Historical Consciousness in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur | Sklar | ||
| 2015 | Ruth Clayman | Re-Imagining Invention (Post)Pedagogy from Ulmer's Electracy to Design | Director of education | SAE Institute | Marback |
| 2015 | Jenna Gerds | Sex, Labor, and the American Way: Detroit Aesthetic in Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature | Instructor | Macomb Community College | Watten |
| 2014 | Jane Asher | Undermining the Angelic Restrictions of First-Wave Feminism: What the New Woman Did, Didn't, and Wouldn't Do | Adjucnt instructor | Macomb Community College Warren | Vlasopolos |
| 2014 | Mark Brown | In Particularity We Trust: Richard Dutcher's Mormon Quartet and a Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Film Style | Associate professor | Baker College | Shaviro |
| 2014 | Christopher Giroux | The Traumatized/Traumatizing Subject in Anna Deveare Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, and August Wilson | Assistant professor | Saginaw Valley State University | Ze-Winters |
| 2014 | Jared Grogan | A Genealogy of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin and Huxley | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Pruchnic |
| 2014 | Whitney Hardin | Acting Out Citizenship in Global and Local Contexts | Assistant professor | Kettering University | Marback |
| 2014 | Adrienne Jankens | Responsive Classroom Ecologies: Supporting Inquiry and Rhetorical Awareness in College Writing Courses | Lecturer | Wayne State University | Gorzelsky |
| 2014 | Jennifer Niester-Mika | Critical Experiential Learning and Rhetorical Interventions in New Media Ecologies | Pruchnic | ||
| 2014 | Jason Kahler | Technologically-Mediated Writing in the First-Year Writing Classroom: Twitter and Immediate Writing | Assistant professor | Saginaw Valley State University | Marback |
| 2014 | Conor Shaw-Draves | Commedia: Rhetoric and Technology in the Media Commons | Assistant professor | Saginaw Valley State University | Pruchnic |
| 2014 | Andie Silva | Marketing Good Taste: Print Agents' Use of Paratext to Shape Markest and Readers in Early Modern England | Assistant professor | York College/The City University of New York | Chess |
| 2014 | Shashi Thandra | Annihilation and Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures of Genocide and Capital | Director of product management | Deposit Solutions | Aguirre |
| 2013 | Abigail Heininger | Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions of National Identity | Visiting assistant professor | Lawrence Technological University | Vlasopolos |
| 2013 | Andrew O. Winckles | Drawn Out in Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women's Writing in Eighteenth Century England | Assistant professor | Adrian College | Scrivener |
| 2013 | Laura Estill | The Circulation and Recontextualization of Dramatic Excerpts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts | Assistant professor | Texas A & M | Jackson |
| 2013 | Mike Ristich | Without Content: Rhetoric, American Anarchism, And the End(s) of Radical Politics | Visiting assistant professor | Michigan State University | Prunchnic |
| 2013 | Hilary Sarat-St. Peter | Wired & Dangerous: Hacks, Hair Extensions and Other Twists on Traditional Technical Communications | Assistant professor | Columbia College | Ranney |
| 2013 | Michael Schmidt | The Materialism of the Encounter: Queer Sociality and Capital in Modern Literature | Adjunct instructor | Wayne State University | Watten |
| 2013 | Crystal Starkey | A Cognitively Enabling Approach: Cognitive Diversity in Composition Studies | Assistant professor | Delta College | Pruchnic |
| 2012 | Jill Darling | Writing the Self: Feminist Experiment And Cultural Identity | Lecturer | Eastern Michigan University | Watten |
| 2012 | Andrew Engel | Flickering Cities: Multimedia City Fabrics and the Changing Nature of Citizenship | Assistant professor | Wiley College | Marback |
| 2012 | Michael Martin | Hallowed Ground: Literature And the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England, c. 1550-1704 | Assistant professor | Marygrove College | Jackson |
| 2012 | Justin Remeselnik | Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis | Lecturer in film and literature | Oakland University | Thompson |
| 2012 | Sarah Ruddy | This Fact Which is Not One: Differential Poetics in Transatlantic American Modernism | Executive director | Strand Theatre | Watten |
| 2012 | Denise Yezbick | Faith and (Un)Certainty in the Writing of Stowe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson: The Intersecting Language of Theology and Feminism | Lecturer | University of Michigan Dearborn | Pudaloff |
| 2011 | Kim Lacey | Making Memory: Techne, Technology, and the Refashioning of Contemporary Memory | Assistant professor | Saginaw Valley State University | Marback |
| 2011 | Emine Selmin Kara | Reassembling Documentary: From Actuality to Virtuality | Assistant professor | Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) | Grusin |
| 2011 | Jill Morris | Gender and Race: Online Communities and Composition Classrooms | Assistant professor | Frostburg State University | Marback |
| 2011 | Justin Vidovic | Teaching with Spirit: Freire, Dialogue and Spiritual Discourse in the Composition Classroom | Assistant professor | Prairie State Community College | Gorzelsky |
| 2011 | Ethriam Brammer | La Patria Perdida o Imaginada: Translating Teodoro Torres in "El México de Afuera" | Wasserman |