Congratulations to all of our graduate students for the completion of another successful year!  In particular, we would like to extend our warmest congratulations to the following students for successfully securing academic positions and winning prestigious external and internal fellowships, awards, and prizes.  Their success contributes to ensuring that the Graduate Program of Literatures in English continues to be ranked as one of the top twenty programs in the country.

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First-time Graduate Placement

Placement Updates

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellows

Graduate Symposium Prizes

Graduate Symposium Papers

Graduate Placement

First-time Placement

	Dr. Hillary Chute (Ph.D. 2007) Harvard University, Society of Fellows (Cambridge, MA) Postdoctoral Fellow Dissertation Title: "Contemporary Graphic Narratives: History, Aesthetics, Ethics" Committee: Marianne DeKoven (Director), Carolyn Williams, and Harriet Davidson
	Dr. Christopher Crosbie (Ph.D. 2007) Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "Philosophies of Retribution: Rethinking Early Modern Revenge Tragedy" Committee: Emily C. Bartels (Director), Ann Baynes Coiro, and Ronald Levao
	Dr. Benjamin Johnson (Ph.D. 2007) University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg, MO) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "The Varieties of Aesthetic Experience in American Modernist Literature" Committee: Marcia Ian (Director), Marc Manganaro, and Michael Warner
	Dr. Lauren Lacey (Ph.D. 2007) Edgewood College (Madison, WI) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "Fantastic Times: Contemporary Women Rewriting the Past and Writing the Future" Committee: Marianne DeKoven (Director), Richard Dienst, and John A. McClure
	Dr. Maria Rice (Ph.D. 2007) College of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "Migrations of Memory: Postmemory in Twentieth Century Ethnic American Women's Literature" Committee: Cheryl A. Wall (Director), Marianne DeKoven, and Brent Hayes Edwards
	Alison Shonkwiler (Ph.D. expected 2007) Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) Visiting Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "The Financial Imaginary: Dreiser, DeLillo, and Abstract Capitalism in American Literature" Committee: Marianne DeKoven (Director), Richard Dienst, and John A. McClure
	Dr. Alexandra Socarides (Ph.D. 2007) University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Genre" Committee: Meredith L. McGill (Director), Virginia Jackson, and Carolyn Williams
	Richard Squibbs (Ph.D. expected 2007) California Institute of Technology, The Huntington Library (Pasadena, CA) Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Instructor in Book History Dissertation Title: "Conversing with Books: Reading the Periodical Essay in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Jeffersonian America" Committee: William C. Dowling (Director), William H. Galperin, and Myra Jehlen
	Dr. Sunny Stalter (Ph.D. 2007) Auburn University (Auburn, AL) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "Underground Subjects: Public Transportation and Perception in New York Modernist Literature" Committee: Elin Diamond (Director), Matthew S. Buckley, Harriet Davidson, and Meredith L. McGill
	Kathryn Steele (Ph.D. expected 2007) University of Oklahoma, Expository Writing Program (Norman, OK) Visiting Lecturer of Expository Writing Dissertation Title: "Navigating Interpretative Authorities: Women Readers and Reading Models in the Eighteenth Century England" Committee: Paula McDowell (Director), Michael McKeon, and Jonathan Brody Kramnick
	Dr. Daveena Tauber (Ph.D. 2006) Portland State University (Portland, OR) Assistant Professor of English Dissertation Title: "'Jews Natural,' 'Jews Virtual': Milton and the Problem of Typological Hermeneutics" Committee: Jacqueline T. Miller (Director), Ann Baynes Coiro, and Emily C. Bartels
	Margaret Wald Anderson (Ph.D. expected 2007) Declined Tenure-Track Position California State University, Chico (Chico, CA) Dissertation Title: "Stoic Enlightenments" Committee: Michael McKeon (Director), William H. Galperin, and Jonathan Brody Kramnick

Updates

	Dr. Alexander Bain (Ph.D. 2004) Assistant Professor of English University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) (from California State Polytechnic University)
	Dr. Danielle Bobker (Ph.D. 2007) Assistant Professor of English Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) (from Villanova University)
	Dr. Soyica Diggs (Ph.D. 2006) Assistant Professor of English Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) (after one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University)
	Dr. Natasha Hurley (Ph.D. 2007) Postdoctoral Fellow University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (from Macalester College)
	Dr. Katherine Lynes (Ph.D. 2004) Assistant Professor of English Union College (Schenectady, NY) (from Colgate College)
	Dr. Saikat Majumdar (Ph.D. 2005) Assistant Professor of English Stanford University (Stanford, CA) (from McMaster University)
	Dr. Raymond Ricketts (Ph.D. 2006) Visiting Lecturer of English Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA) (secured permanent lectureship)
	Dr. Channette M. Romero (Ph.D. 2004) Assistant Professor of English University of Georgia (Athens, GA) (from Union College)

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

Candice Amich

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2006-2009), United States Department of Education

Sarah Balkin

Dickens Universe Program, University of California, Santa Cruz

Paul Benzon

University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship Alternate, Graduate School - New Brunswick, Rutgers University

Tyler Bradway

School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2007-2010), United States Department of Education

Riccardo Capoferro

Lane Cooper Dissertation Fellowship, City University of New York

Ja Yun Choi

Samsung Fellowship

Michael Gavin

Special Study Support Award, Graduate School - New Brunswick, Rutgers University

Devin Griffiths

Summer Immersion Program for Intermediate French, Middlebury College

Carrie Hyde

School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

Patrick Jehle

Dickens Universe Program, University of California, Santa Cruz

Michael Masiello

Latin Letters Department, The Vatican

Beth Perry

Barry V. Qualls Dissertation Fellowship

Benjamin Singer

The Point Foundation Scholarship

Elliott Souder

Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Writing Program by a Teaching Assistant, Rutgers Writing Program

Paul Yeoh

Dissertation Teaching Award, Graduate School - New Brunswick, Rutgers University

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Paul Benzon

Dissertation Director:  Richard Dienst

Dissertation Title: "Spaces, Cuts, Codes: Postwar Technology and the Mediation of Writing"

Cornelius Collins

Dissertation Director:  John A. McClure

Dissertation Title: "Uncertain Ends: Contemporary Narratives of Political Decline, Social Failure, and Survival"

Anannya Dasgupta

Dissertation Director:  Ann Baynes Coiro

Dissertation Title: "Right Spelling and Rent Bodies: The Discourse of Magic in Renaissance Drama"

Jennifer Garrison

Dissertation Director:  Larry Scanlon

Dissertation Title: "Eucharistic Theology in Middle English Devotional Literature"

Jacob Nellickal

Dissertation Director:  William H. Galperin

Dissertation Title: "Histories of the Visual Image in Nineteenth-Century Literature"

Miriam Jaffe-Foger

Dissertation Director:  Brent Hayes Edwards

Dissertation Title: "Cross-Ethnic Mediums and the Rhetoric of Individuality in American Fiction"

Regina Masiello

Dissertation Director:  Ann Baynes Coiro

Dissertation Title:  “Rooms of Invention: The Prison Poems of Wyatt, Surrey and Ralegh”

Piia Mustamaki

Dissertation Director:  Elin Diamond

Dissertation Title:  “Redefining Political Theater: Masochism and the Problem of Identity”

Megan Ward

Dissertation Director:  Kate Flint

Dissertation Title: "The Sensing Subject: Sensory Perception in Victorian Literature and Culture"

Madhvi Zutshi

Dissertation Director:  Michael McKeon

Dissertation Title:  "Virtue, Sensibility and 'The Man of Feeling' in the Eighteenth Century"

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellows

Sonali Barua

The National Library of India, Calcutta, India

The Sangeet Research Academy Library, Calcutta, India

Tyler Bradway

School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

Sonia Di Loreto

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Jennifer Garrison

Manuscript Collections, The British Library, London, England

Carrie Hyde

School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

Sarah Kennedy

William Dean Howells Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Michel Masiello

Latin Letters Department, The Vatican

Rachel Smith

Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT), University of California, Irvine

Katherine Snead

Beginning Latin Course, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Sunny Stalter

Rudolph Fisher’s Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University

Scott Trudell

Egerton Manuscript, The British Library, London, England

Graduate Symposium Prizes

Marius Bewley Prize (for the best essay written in coursework)

Winner: Carrie Malcolm

Title:  "'Cities are worst of all three':  Negotiating Urban Space in John Donne’s 'To Sir Henry Wotton (Sir, more than kisses)'"

Honorable Mention:  Debapriya Sarkar

Title:  “Eve’s ‘sad experiment’:  Experimentation and its Consequences in Paradise Lost”

Catherine Musello Cantalupo Prize (for the best essay on the relationship between literature and religion)

Winner:  Erick Sierra

Title:  “Beyond the Subject of Death:  Don DeLillo’s White Noise at the Limits of Secular Body”

Spencer L. Eddy Prize (for best literary essay published in a general or professional journal)

Winner:  Vera Eliasova

Title:  “A Cab of Her Own:  Immigration and Mobility in Iva Pekarkora’s Gimme the Money”

Contemporary Literature, Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006

Honorable Mention:  Christopher Crosbie

Title:  “Fixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value”

Publication forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly, Summer 2007

Catherine Moynahan Prize (for essay of merit on literary topic)

Winner:  Jacob Nellickal

Title:  “The Ghosts of Authorship: Photography, Copyright, and the Picture of Dorian Gray”

 Honorable Mention:  Christopher Crosbie

Title:  “Fixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value”

Graduate Symposium Papers

Anannya Dasgupta

“Owning and Disowning Magic in Doctor Faustus and The Tempest”

Jesse Hoffman

“What think you of books?’:  Mr. Bennet’s Inheritable Talents in Pride and Prejudice”

Kathleen Howard

“'Foreshadowing the Return’:  Utopian Avant-Garde History in Jay Wright’s

‘The Double Invention of Komo’ and Will Alexander’s Exobiology as Goddness”

Jenna Lewis

“Cowboys and Concubines:  Photographing the Oriental Male at the 1893 World’s

Columbian Exposition”

Phillip Longo

“The Able-Body and the Wage-Labor Economy in The Old Curiosty Shop”

Natalie Roxburgh

“Pornographic Prudence in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”

Debapriya Sarkar

“'Eve’s ‘sad experiment’:  Experimentation and its Consequences in Paradise Lost”

John Savarese

“Lyric Mindedness in Barker’s Love Intrigues”

Paul Yeoh

“The Power of Refinement:  Reading for Improvement in Jane Eyre”