Recent Career Search Results

Career Search Cycle, 2024-2025

Atefeh Akbari: Assistant Professor in Global Literatures in English, English Department, Barnard College
Valerio Amoretti: Assistant Professor of Literature and Mind, Dept of English, UC Santa Barbara
Tyler Grand Pre: Assistant Professor of Black Atlantic / Diasporic Literature, Dept of English & Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
Lauren Horst: 3-year Postdoc, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Princeton University
Milan Terlunen: Researcher in Digital Humanities (5 years), University of Sussex
Lilith Todd: Assistant Professor of the Global Long 18th Century, Dept of English, University of Pennsylvania

Career Search Cycle, 2023-2024

Alex Alston: Assistant Professor (African American & African Diasporic Literatures), Dept of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College
Patrick Anson: Strategist, Gemic (research / consulting)
Sheila Byers: Drue Heinz Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Literature, Oxford University
Daniella Cádiz Bedini: Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley
Katrina Dzyak: Core Lectureship (3-year postdoc), Columbia University
Mia Florin-Sefton: Core Lectureship (3-year postdoc), Columbia University
Emily Foster: Lecturer, Dept of Literatures in English, Cornell University
Chloe Howe Haralambous: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton Society of Fellows
Alec Joyner: Core Lectureship (3-year postdoc), Columbia University
Aidan Levy: Visiting Assistant Professor (Literature of the Americas), Department of Cultures, Arts & Literatures, The University of Saint Joseph
Bernadette Myers: Assistant Professor (Early Modern / Shakespeare Studies), Dept of English, Washington University in Saint Louis
Alex Valin: Lecturer, Department of English, University of Nebraska Lincoln and Writing Instructor, Department of English, University of Nebraska Omaha
Anna Waller: Assistant Director, GSAS Writing Studio, Columbia University
Rachel Zhang: Assistant Professor (Early Modern and Foundational Literary Studies), Dept of Writing, Literature & Publishing, Emerson College (Boston)

Career Search Cycle, 2022-2023

Ilana Gilovich: Chief Storyteller, Emursive Productions
Philomena Polefrone: Advocacy Associate Manager at the American Booksellers Association
Annie Potter: Assistant Adjunct Faculty, St. Mary’s College
Olivia Rutigliano: Editor, Grove Atlantic Press; Editor, Literary Hub and Crime Reads

Career Search Cycle, 2021-2022

Atifeh Akbari: 1 year re-appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor (postcolonial), Barnard College
Alex Alston: Cheryl A. Wall Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Liz Bowen: Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and the Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University (medical/health humanities)
Lisa Del Sol: Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research & Fellowships, Academic Affairs, Columbia
Sierra Eckert: Assistant Professor (19c British/Anglophone), Wesleyan University
Jess Engbretson: Assistant Director, GSAS Writing Studio, Columbia University (was Chronicle of Higher Education)
Matthew Fernandez: Landon School, Upper School Humanities Teacher
Will Glovinsky: 2-year VAP of Humanities in First-year Honors Sequence, SUNY-Binghamton
Lauren Horst: Lectureship in University Writing, Columbia University
Aidan Levy: Early Career Fellowship, Columbia University
Naomi Michalowicz: Core Lectureship, Columbia University
Taarini Mookherjee: Newton International Fellowship awarded by the British Academy, for two-year residence at Queen’s University Belfast (theater and performance studies; formerly Core Lecturer).
Yea Jung Park: Postdoctoral fellowship for 2023-24 at Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris; Assistant Professor (medieval), St Louis University, medieval, starting 2024-25.
Eugene Petracca: Re-appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor (medieval), Barnard College
Zoë Pollak: Assistant to Curator and Educational Director, Walden Woods Project (19c American)
Carina Schorske: New York Times Magazine, Freelancer/Contractor
Abby Schroering: Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University
Julia Sirmons: Columbia University, Instructor
Catherine Suffern: Program Manager, Justice-in-Education Initiative, Columbia University (Theater and Performance)
Ami Yoon: Assistant Professor (19c American), Baruch College

Career Search Cycle, 2020-2021

Akua Banful (2022): Assistant Professor, English Department, UC Davis (global Black literatures in English)
Ameya Tripathi (2022): Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University (20th century comparative, VAP in 2022-23, followed by full appointment starting 2023)
Li Qi Peh (2020): Assistant Professor, Humanities, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (18th century, formerly Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program)

Milan Terlunen (2022): Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, School of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Digital Humanities, 19th century)
Diana Rose Newby (2022): Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program (19th C British, Medical Humanities), Princeton University
Bernadette Myers (2021): Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Renaissance and Early Modern Comparative Literature, New York University (formerly ACLS Early Career Fellow, Columbia)
Walter Gordon (2021): English, IDEAL Fellowship, Stanford University, (African American and Environmental Humanities; formerly postdoctoral fellow, U Alberta)
Montana Ray (2021): Clinical Assistant Professor, Writing and Translation Studies, NYU Liberal Studies (formerly Core Postdoc)
Rebecca Pawel (2020): Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean, Graduate Center, CUNY
Alexander Lash (2019): Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Stockholm

Pease note that some of our students continue to be in multi-year positions for the Core

Julia Sirmons (2022): Early Career Fellow, Theater
Yea Jung Park (2022): Early Career Fellow, Medieval
Therese Cox (2021): Lecturer, Undergraduate Writing Program (formerly ACLS Early Career Fellow)
Will Glovinsky, (2021): Core
Philomena Polefrone (2020): Core
Ben Van Wagoner (2018): Core
Rachel Zhang: Core
Nicole Gervasio: Core

Career Search Cycle, 2019-2020

Therese Cox, PhD 2021: Early Career Fellow, Columbia University , 20th century British
Danielle Drees, PhD 2021: Kilachand Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University, theater and gender and sexuality studies
Jess Engebretson, PhD 2021: Associate Editor, The Chronicle for Higher Education, postcolonial
Nicole Gervasio, PhD 2018: Instructor, Literature Humanities, Columbia University, global Anglophone (formerly ACLS Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, PEN America)
Will Glovinksy, PhD 2021: Core Lecturer, Columbia University
Walter Gordon, PhD 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Public Energy Humanities in the department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta , African American Studies and Environmental Humanities
Emily Hainze, PhD 2017: Assistant Teaching Professor, Prison and Justice Initiative and Writing Program, Georgetown University (formerly Kilachand postdoctoral fellow, Boston University)
Elleza Kelley, PhD 2021: Assistant Professor, Yale University, African American diaspora studies
Liza McIntosh, PhD 2021: Senior Associate, Copperfield Advisory (consulting), early modern, environmental humanities
Taarini Mookherjhee, PhD 2020: Core lecturer (formerly visiting assistant professor, SUNY New Paltz), global Shakespeare/British
Philomena Polefrone, PhD 2020: Core Lecturer, Columbia University, Literature Humanities
Bernadette Myers, PhD 2021: Early Career Fellow, Columbia University, early modern and environmental humanities
Tiana Reid, PhD 2021: Assistant Professor, York University, African American and African diaspora studies (beginning Fall 2022); Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Graham Sack, PhD 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Digital Humanities, Washington University at St. Louis
Rosa Schneider, PhD 2019: Instrutor, Bard Sequence (formlery CUNY START program)
Kimberly Takahata, PhD 2020: Assistant Professor, Villanova U, early American and indigenous studies (formerly postdoctoral fellow at US Military Academy at West Point)
Kevin Windhauser, PhD 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University, Prison Education Program, early modern
Rachel Zhang, PhD 2018: Instructor, Columbia University, Literature Humanities, early modern (formerly adjunct faculty, Touro College)

Career Search Cycle, 2018-2019

Valerio Amoretti, PhD 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University, Columbia
Gabriel Bloomfield, PhD 2019: Assistant Professor, US Naval Academy, Early Modern (formerly Core postdoc)
L. Maria Bo, PhD 2018: Assistant Professor, Cal State University Fullerton, Asian American (formerly Core postdoc)
Sierra Eckert, PhD 2020: Digital Humanities Postdoctoral and Perkins Fellow, Princeton University
Jason Fitzgerald, PhD 2017: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 20th century theatre (formerly postdoc, Washington U St. Louis)
Warren Kluber, PhD 2020: Core Lecturer, Columbia University, theater
Emily Kuntz, PhD 2020: Literature Teacher, Grace Church School
Alexander Lash, PhD 2019: Assistant Professor, Early Modern, National Taiwan University (formerly Baruch adjunct faculty)
Kate McIntyre, PhD 2020: Writing Specialist
Taarini Mookherjhee, PhD 2020: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY New Paltz, global Shakespeare/British
Li Qi Peh, PhD 2020: Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, 18th century
Eugene Petracca, PhD 2019: Term Assistant Professor, Barnard College, medieval
Rosa Schneider, PhD 2019: CUNY START program
Rebecca Pawel, PhD 2020: Core Lecturer, Columbia University
Aled Roberts, PhD 2020: Core Lecturer, Columbia University
Meredith Shepard, PhD 2018: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University (formerly postdoctoral associate, Macmillan Center, Yale University)
Kimberly Takahata, PhD 2020: Postdoctoral Instructor, Department of English and Philosophy, United States Military Academy at West Point
Benjamin VanWagoner, PhD 2018: Core Lecturer (formerly faculty, Bard Early Sequence; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baruch College)
Victoria Wiet, PhD 2019: Assistant Professor, De Pauw University, 19th Century British (formerly Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University)

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