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Graduate Program Alumni

Misha Choudhry	Dissertation Title: "Let me LOOK at you:" Post-9/11 Representational Imperative and Muslim Refusal*
Kristoffer Ekroll	Dissertation Title: Wrong in All the Right Dimensions: The Use of Architecture in Gothic and Horror as an Exploration of the Affordances of Space (1764-)
Ian Galbraith
Amy Juarez	Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at Union College in Schenectady, New York Dissertation Title: The Poetics of Embodied Architecture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Chelsea Keane	Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington Ideologies of Extraction in Premodern Literary Environments
Brandy Lewis	Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, specializing in Queer Theory, Speculative Fiction, and Cultural Studies Dissertation Title: Untaming Fandom: Funny Figures and the Page-Based World of Furries
Jasmine Moore	Postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Southern California (USC)’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 2024-2026 Dissertation Title: Disaster and Possibility: Reclaiming Time through AfroHorror Aesthetics
David Siglos	Lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Title: Arte-culations: the Novel Form and the Filipino Style of Being
Samarth Singhal	Dissertation Title: Artistic Agency in the Contemporary Indian Anglophone Picturebook: A Study of Pardhan Gond Aesthetics and Tara Books
Leah Washburn	Visiting Assistant Professorship with the University of Iowa in their Rhetoric Department

Nancy Carranza	Assistant Professor at Riverside Community College Dissertation Title: "Domestic (Be)Longings: Reimagining Home and Nation for Multiracial Characters in Contemporary Asian American Fiction"
Leslie Fernandez	Lecturer of Asian American Studies in the Committee of Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights at Harvard University. Dissertation Title: “Asiandroid: Techno-Orientalism and the AI Imaginary”
Nicole Furtado	UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Santa Cruz in the History of Art & Visual Culture Department for the 2023-24 year, followed by a tenure track Assistant Professor at UCSC starting fall 2024 Dissertation Title: “Galaxies like Islands, Islands like Galaxies: Envisioning Futurity through Seascape Technologies”
Lauren Hammond	Writing Program Coordinator, Graduate Division, UC Riverside
Celeste Jackson	Postdoctoral Associate Researcher for the 2023-24 year at the University of Buffalo, NY, followed by a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis starting fall 2024 Dissertation Title: "WHY NOT NOW: Native Poetry and Critical Erotic Relationality."
Robyn Johnson	Teaching Postdoc at University of Florida Dissertation Title: Narrating the American Wilderness: The Narratological Transformation of Indigenous Ecologies to “Wild” Land.
Grant Palmer	Lecturer at the University Writing Program, UCR Dissertation Title: “The Digital Mediation of the Technological Carnivalesque.”
Christopher Queen	Assistant Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University Dissertation Title: ‘Odd Feelings About Books’: Affective Attachments to Middle English Literature
Amanda Riggle	Adjunct Faculty at Mt San Jacinto Community College, Moreno Valley Community College, and Riverside Community College. Amanda is also the Educator for the Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights. Dissertation Title: “Abolish Shakespeare”
Summer Sutton	On the Job Market Dissertation Title: “Feral Creatures: Domesticity, Empire and the Humanist Imaginary”
Stef Torralba	Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College for the 2023-2024 year. Beginning in Fall 2024, President’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Dissertation Title: “Feeling Close: Time-Space, the Quotidian, and Queer and Trans U.S. Filipinx and Chicanx Cultural Forms”
Soraya Zarook	Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Dissertation Title: “Forms of Dissent: Resisting the Trauma Narrative through Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature”

Angelica Barraza	Tenure-Track position, the Department of English, Santa Rosa Junior College
Aaron Brown	Tenure-Track position, the Department of Ethnic Studies, Cal State San Bernardino (Aaron is the inaugural full-time professor in this department)
Brittany Carlson	Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Composition, Iowa Wesleyan University
Heejoo Park	Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University
Kayleigh Quarterman	The Metro of Modernity: Queer Women’s Poetics
Michael Andrew Schwartz	Dissertation Title: Vexing the Terrain: Narrative Form as Feminist Critique
Kristen Skjonsby	Assistant Professor of English, Irvine Valley Community College
Miranda Steege	Writer; Dissertation Title: Reading for a Queer Sexual Ethics: Victorian and Contemporary Modes of Intimacy
Preston Waltrip	Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado College
Sang-Keun Yoo	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies & Anthropology, University of California at San Diego

Jose Alfaro	Spring 2021, Assistant Professor, Cosumnes River College
Eric Atkinson	Winter 2021, Tenured Track Position, Santa Rosa Junior College They Might be my Color, but That Don't Make 'Em Biscuits: An Examination of Figural Fixations of Blackness Through Visuality, Ambient Rhetoric, and Somaesthetics
Sarah Buckner	Spring 2021, Assistant Professor of English, Allegheny College
Jeshua Enriquez	Summer 2021, Assistant Professor of English, Salt Lake Community College
Mariam Galarrita	Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University Majoritizing Whiteness: Asia and Early Modern England Racemaking
Graham Hall	Lecturer, Analytical Writing Program, University of California, San Diego
Kameron Sanzo	Summer 2021, Technical Writer, Astrobotic Technology Structuring Energy: Politics of the Energy Concept in Nineteenth-Century Physics, Literature, and Infrastructures
Courtney Scuro	Spring 2021, Membership Director at board.org
Kali Simmons	Spring 2021, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University

Stina Attebery	Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Refuse Ecologies: Indigenous Posthumanism in Polluted Futures
Miranda Butler	Assistant Professor, Snow College Nineteenth-Century Sound Reading: Auditory Epistemologies in the Margins of Literature and Science
Hannah Manshel	Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Hawai’i at Manoa The Freedom of a Broken Law: Antinomianism and Abolition in American Literature
Chelsea Rae Silva	Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Oklahoma Bedwritten: Middle English Medicine and the Ailing Author
Daniel Valencia	Assistant Professor, Cal State University Northridge Chicano Science Fiction and the Shattering of Reality

Clarissa Castaneda	Visiting Professor, English Department, University of Redlands Latinidades and the Repository of the Poetic
Ezekiel Crago	Omega Men: The Masculinist Discourse of Apocalyptic Manhood in Postwar American Cinema
Lisette Lasater	Assistant Professor, Palomar College
Christina Mar	Faculty tenure-track, Kaua`i Community College, Hawaii

Kai Cheang	Assistant Professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Portland State University Radical Relationality: Genre and Affect in Asian American Historical Fiction of the Long Sixties
Taylor Evans	Lecturer, University Writing Program, UCR The Race of Machines: A Prehistory of the Human
Michael Jarvis	Lecturer, English Department, University of Oregon The Political Aesthetic of Irony in Post-Racial America
Ryan Leack	Lecturer, University Writing Program, UCR Quantum Rhetoric: The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
Addison Palacios	Assistant Professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto College Minority Intellectualism in America: Lives, Literature, and Institutions
Joshua Pearson	Lecturer, Liberal Studies Department, Cal State University, Los Angeles Managing Power: Fictionalization and Gendered Heroism in 20th Century Popular Culture
Ikuno Sakai	Faculty Member, Tokyo Akugai University Melville on the Beach: Transnational Visions of America
Annie Schnarr	Lecturer, University Writing Program, UCR Rhetorical Literacy and First Year Composition
Alexander Sterling	Adjunct English Instructor, RCC and Mt. San Jacinto Community Colleges You Can’t See Me!: Heterodox Black Religiosities & The Politics of Recognition
Anne Sullivan	Postdoctoral Instructor In Visual Culture, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California, Institute of Technology On Fire: Industrialization, Media Technologies, and the Imagination, 1800-1900
Kacie Wills	Assistant Professor of English, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois Fancy, Spectacle, and the Materiality of the Romantic Imagination in Pacific Exploration Culture One of two recipient of the Keats Shelley Association of America’s Pforzheimer Grant for 2019; supporting her continued research on the collections of Sarah Sophia Banks at the British Library and British Museum.

Rebecca Addicks-Salerno	Lecturer, University Writing Program, UCR Ann Radcliffe and the Scientific Imaginary: Education, Observation and Sensibility
Daniel Ante-Contreras	Instructor, English, Mira Costa College Autism as Metaphor: The Affective Regime of Neoliberal Masculinity
Wallace Thomas Cleaves	Lecturer and Lead Lecturer Mentor, University Writing Program, UCR Towards a Native Medieval: Shared Themes of Visionaries, Tricksters, Resisters and Contact
Schuyler Ejay Eastin	Lecturer, Analytical Writing Program, UC San Diego (Dis)arming the Middle Ages Chivalric Materiality in Medieval Romance
Ann Garascia	Lecturer, English Department, California State University, San Bernardino “Freaking” the Archive: Archiving Possibilities With the Victorian Freak Show
Shelley Nicole Garcia	Assistant Professor of English, Biola University Genre Matters: Transgression, Innovation, and Transformation in Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros and Cherríe Moraga
Elizabeth Gumm	Associate Director of Writing for the Culture, Art & Technology College, UCSD The Postmodern Family Gothic: Bodies of Narrative
Simon Lee	Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Working-Class Heroics: The Intersection of Class and Space in British Post-War Writing
Rubén Mendoza	Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge Perception/Poiesis: Neosophist Pedagogy for a Neoliberal Age of Technoscience Empire
Irene Mary Morrison	Adjunct Faculty, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom Decolonizing Utopia: Indigenous Knowledge and Dystopian Speculative Fiction
Jessica Roberson	English Faculty, Mount Saint Mary, Los Angeles, CA Entangled with the Dead: Burial, Exhumation, and Textual Materiality in British Romanticism
Flavia Ruzi	Instructor (tenure-track) in English, Orange Coast College Aesthetic Intersections: Portraiture and British Women’s Life Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Elias Serna	Performance Artist & Lecturer in Chicano & Latino Studies, California State University Long Beach Composing a Chican@ Rhetorical Tradition: Pleito Rhetorics and Decolonial Uses of Technologies for Self-Determination
Lorenzo Servitje	Assistant Professor of English and Health, Medicine and Society, Lehigh University Medicine Is War
Amanda Kaye Sharick	Assistant Dean of Students for Stanford's Graduate Life Office “Upon the Threshold”: Anglo-American Jewish Women Writers’ Counterhistories of Liberal Citizenship and Jewish Nationalism
John K. Sooja	Adjunct Faculty/Instructor, De Anza College Language of the Heart: Korean Adoptee Identity and Disorientation

Sarah Antinora	Associate Professor of English, San Joaquin Delta College Laughter in Early Modern Drama: Permission to Laugh Ourselves Into Stitches
Michael Datcher	Writer & Clinical Assistant Professor of English, Loyola Marymount University Animacy Matters: Animating Black and Brown Liberation in Artistic Counterpublics
Laurence Dumortier	Writer, Private Practice Anarchic Intimacies: Queer Friendship and Erotic Bonds
Richard Hunt	Lecturer, University Writing Program, UCR I’m (Not) Listening: Rhetoric and Political Rationalities of Self and Other
Katherine (Katy) Johnston	Lecturer, The Program in Writing and Rhetoric, SUNY Stony Book Characterizing Profiles, Data Surveillance and Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Sarah Lozier-Laiola	Assistant Professor of English, Coastal Carolina University, Conway South Carolina 2016-2018 Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology Hypermaterial Language Art: Digitality, Materiality, and Contemporary Anti-Racist Poetics
Raymund Papica	Academic Coordinator II for Writing Across the Curriculum, UCR The Armor Network: Medieval Prosthesis and Degenerative Posthuman Bodies
Jeremy Sell	Assistant Principal at Walker Junior High School, Orange CA Victorian Sermonic Discourse: The Sermon in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Society

Sarah Antinora	Assistant Professor, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA Laughter in Early Modern Drama: Permission to Laugh Ourselves Into Stitches
Alicia Contreras	Lecturer, Merritt Writing Program, University of California, Merced 2015-2016: Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder The Campaign for Literary Practice: Mexican American Writers in the Age of Realism and Regionalism, 1885 to 1940
Edward Eason	Assistant Professor of English, Iowa State University Temporalizing the Great War: Wartime in Twentieth-Century American and British Literature
Jennie Friedrich	Lecturer, Writing Program, UCR Travail Narratives: Damage and Displacement in Medieval Travel Literature
Justin Gautreau	Lecturer, Merritt Writing Program, University of California, Merced 2015-2016: Lecturer, English Department, University of Colorado, Boulder Fleeting Fictions: Film Technology, Adaptation, and a History of the Hollywood Novel, 1920-1950 Author of The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and Studio System
Rochelle Gold	Lecturer, Writing Program, University of Southern California Correspondence Fictions: Critical Literacies and Experiments in Writing Media After Computation
Kimberly Hall	Assistant Professor, Wofford College Self, Surveillance, and Sociality: Aesthetics of the Diaristic Mode in Visual New Media
Shannon Hervey	Non-tenure track faculty, Stanford Univesity
Jennifer Kavetsky	Coordinator, ARC Undergraduate Writing Center, UCR The (Manufactured) Human in U.S. Science Fiction, 1938-1950
Emily McArthur	English Instructor, Baylor High School, Chattanooga, TN
Sonia Rodriguez	Assistant Professor, English, LaGuardia Community College Conocimiento Narratives: Challenging Oppressive Epistemologies Through Healing in Latina/o Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Melanie Sherazi	Postdoctoral Instructor of American Literature, Cal Tech (starting Fall 2017) 2016-2017: UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles Posthumous Afterlives: Ecstatic Readings of Post-1945 American Literature
Jerome Winter	Lecturer, Writing Program, UCR Nostalgia for Infinity: New Space Opera and Neoliberal Globalism
Mark Young	Lecturer, Earl Warren Writing College, UC San Diego

Matthew Bond	Lecturer, Writing Program, UCR Headless and Homeless: Non-Thinking Awareness in American Countercultural Trip Narratives Post-WWI to the Vietnam War
Alicia Cox	Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of California-Irvine 2014-2016: UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis Autobiographical Indiscipline: Queering American Indian Life Narratives
Jeffrey Hicks	Instructor, Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty, Cal State Los Angeles The Dystopian Cityscape in Postmodern Literature and Film
Giulia Hoffmann	Associate Director, Graduate Career Services, University of California-San Diego Otherworldly Impressions: Female Mediumship in Britain and America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Alan Lovegreen	Instructor, English, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA 2014-2016: Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College of Technology Aerofuturism: Vectors of Modernity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century Literature and Culture
Emily Mattingly	Director of Writing Center, Delaware College of Art and Design Queer Developments: The Politics of Reimagining Age
Ayra Quinn	Assistant Professor, Los Angeles Mission College Novel Ways of Seeing: Victorian Novels, Animated Adaptions, and the Disoriented Reader/Viewer
Ian Ross	Adjunct Faculty, Moreno Valley College Authenticity, Authority, and Assemblage Masculinity: Geek Identity and Hardware Production in Networked Spaces

Gretchen Bartels	Associate Professor of English, Cal Baptist University
Jessica Best	Assistant Professor of English, SUNY Adirondack Suspended Nameless in the Limbo State: Neoliberalism and Queer Caribbean Diasporas
Regis (Mann) Fox	Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University Unsung, Unwavering: Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Epistemologies and the Liberal Problematic
Matthew McGraw	Assistant Professor, Lincoln University The Supernatural and the Limits of Materiality in Medieval Histories, Travelogues, and Romances from William of Malmesbury to Geoffrey Chaucer
Rory Moore	Academic Administrator, Long Island University-Brooklyn Literary Sensations: Victorian Women Writers and Celebrity Culture
Keenan Norris	Assistant Professor, American Literature and Creative Writing at San Jose State University Marginalized-Literature-Market-Life: Black Writers, a Literature of Appeal, and the Rise of Street Literature
Thomas Schneider	Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of English at California Baptist University

Mary Auxier	Freelance Editor Exploring Child Worlds: Functions of Infantilization in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Sean Epstein-Corbin	Professor of English, Merced College Secularizing Sentiment, Democratizing Virtue: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject Over the Long Nineteenth Century
Margaret Gover	Director of GradSuccess, Graduate Division, UCR Seeing Double: The Victorian Virtual and Projections of Female Subjectivity
Tanner Higgin	Senior Content Manager, Common Sense Media Gamic Race: Logics of Difference in Videogame Culture
Melissa Garcia Knoll	Associate Professor, Humanities, Irvine Valley College Asian/American Bodies in Extremis: Gendering Power, Pleasure, and Nation through “Spectacular” Excess
Michael Podolny	Associate Professor of English, Onondaga Community College Remembering Modernity: Technics of Temporal Memory in Twentieth-Century Literature and Film
Janise Roselle	Grant Writer, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, UCR Bodies Under Empire: The Territory of American Feminism
Mary Song	Adjunct Faculty, College of the Mainland Cyborg Dreams in Asian American Transnationality: Transgression, Myth, Simulation, Coalition
Laura Westengard	Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College of Technology Queer Monsters Within: Trauma and the Emergence of Gothic Queer Discourse in U.S. Cultural Production, 1945-2011

Notes:

This is a comprehensive list of alumni from 2012 to the present, their current professional positions and the title of their dissertations. University of California dissertations are freely available through the system’s Open Access site.

Unless otherwise indicated, Lecturer, Instructor and Assistant Professor positions are full-time and include security of employment (tenure or equivalent) with seniority/promotion. Where alumni have an active creative practice, we have tried to note this as well. Not included here is the status for those who concluded their study at the MA level, and those with full-time employment but who have not yet completed their dissertations. Please send any updates or corrections to: jennifer.doyle@ucr.edu.