Ph.D. Students, as Director or Co-Director:
Luis Rodríguez Rincón, "A World at Sea," Department of Comparative Literature, in progress
Luke Barnhart, "Plain Poetics: Alternative History for an Early Modern Style," Department of English, in progress
Jessica Beckman, "The Mind's Eye: Vision, Text, and Thought in Early Modern English Print," Department of English, in progress
Justin Tackett, "Listening Between the Lines: Sound Technology and Affect in Poetry, 1850-1930," Department of English, in progress
Jesse Nathan, "Poets' Poets," Department of English, in progress
Caroline Egan, "Imagined Voices: Amerindian Orality and New World Poetry," Department of Comparative Literature, in progress
Ryan Haas, "Enchanted Romanticism," Department of English, in progress
Lucy Alford, "Unfolding Presence: Poetic Attention through the Lens of the Twentieth Century," Department of Comparative Literature, in progress
Virginia Ramos, "The Modern Lyrical Novel," Department of Comparative Literature, in progress
Colin Moore, "Communicative Situations in Early Modern European Fiction," Department of Comparative Literature, in progress
Derek Mong, "The Marriage of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson," Department of English, 2015
Rhiannon Lewis, "Writing in Time: Labor and Work in English Poetry, 1557-1640," Department of English, 2015
Talya Meyers, "Epic and Encounter: Form and Culture in Early Modern Narrative Poetry," Department of English, 2015
Noam Pines, "The Poetics of Dehumanization in Jewish Literature," Department of Comparative Literature, 2014. Now Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Bronwen Tate, "Putting it All In, Leaving it All Out: Expansion and Compression in Post-War Poetry," Department of Comparative Literature, 2014. Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Thinking Matters Program, Stanford University.
Christopher Donaldson, "The Local Poet in the Romantic Tradition," Department of Comparative Literature, 2012. Now Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham.
Kathryn Hume, "The Performance of Analysis in Seventeenth-Century Literature and Science," Department of Comparative Literature, 2012. Now Director of Sales and Marketing, Fast Forward Labs.
Anton Vander Zee, "'The Final Lilt of Songs': Late Whitman and the Long American Century," Department of English, 2012. Now Assistant Professor of English, College of Charleston.
Frederick L. Blumberg, "Literature and Its Rivals, 1500-1660," Department of Comparative Literature, 2011. Now Assistant Professor of English, University of Hong Kong.
Fabian Goppelsröder, "Kalendergeschichte and fait divers: The Poetics of Circumscribed Space," Department of Comparative Literature, 2011. Now Fedor Lynen Fellow, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago.
Harris Feinsod, "Fluent Mundo: Inter-American Poetry, 1939-1973," Department of Comparative Literature, 2011. Now Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University.
Stephanie Schmidt, "Foundational Narratives, Performance and the City," Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, 2011. Now Assistant Professor of Spanish, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
David Marno, "Thanking as Thinking: The Poetics of Grace in John Donne's Holy Sonnets," Department of Comparative Literature, 2011. Now Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley.
Anne Marie Guglielmo, "Contested Genealogies in Early Modern Mediterranean Literature," Department of Comparative Literature, 2010
Ema Vyroubalová, "Linguistic Alterity and Foreignness in Early Modern England, 1534-1625," Department of English, 2010. Recipient of the department's Alden Prize for best dissertation, 2011. Now Assistant Professor of Early Modern English Literature, Trinity College, Dublin.
Claire Seiler, “Between Pole and Tropic: Poetry and Fiction, 1945-1955," Department of English, 2010. Now Assistant Professor of English, Dickinson College.
Enrique Lima, "Forms of Conquest: Indian Conflict and the Novel in the Americas," Department of Comparative Literature, 2006. Now Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
David Colón, "Embodying the Ideogram: Orientalism and the Visual Aesthetic in Modernist Poetry," Department of English, 2004. Now Associate Professor of English, Texas Christian University.
Jillanne Michell, "The Ethics of Toleration in English Renaissance Literature," Department of English, University of Oregon, 2004. Now Professor of English and Department Chair, Umpqua Community College.
Carolyn Bergquist, "Worlds of Persuasion," Department of English, University of Oregon, 2003. Now Senior Lecturer and Director of Composition, University of Oregon.
Kate Jenckes, "Allegories of Writing / History: Borges, Benjamin, and Buenos Aires," Program in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2001. Now Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan.
Miles Taylor, "Nation, History, and Theater: Representing the Past in the Drama of Early Modern England," Department of English, University of Oregon, 2000. Now Associate Professor of English, Le Moyne College.
Nina Chordas, "Utopian Poetics: The Praxis and Discourse of Utopia in England and America, 1516-1637," Department of English, University of Oregon, 1998. Now Associate Professor of English and Department Chair, University of Alaska Southeast.
Jaspal Singh, "Maddening Inscriptions: 'Madness' as Resistance in Postcolonial African and South Asian Women's Fiction and Film," Program in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 1998. Now Professor of English, Northern Michigan University.
Karen Piper, "Territories of the Novel: Borders, Identities, and Displacements in Twentieth-Century Fiction," Program in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 1996. Now Professor of English, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Marilyn G. Miller, "Miscegenation and the Narrative Voice," Program in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 1995. Now Associate Professor of Spanish, Tulane University.