Academic Placements for 2008

We are very pleased to announce that seven of our PhDs have recently accepted tenure-track and visiting assistant professorships. Please join us in congratulating them. Bravo!

Ray Bossert (PhD 2006) has accepted a three-year visiting assistant professorship at Franklin and Marshall College. His dissertation, “The Golden Chain: Royal Slavery, Sovereignty and Servitude in Early Modern English Literature,” was directed by Theodore Leinwand.

Jonathan Buehl (PhD, anticipated spring 2008) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at The Ohio State University. Jonathan is completing his dissertation, “Instrument to Evidence to Argument: Visual Mediation of Invisible Phenomena in Scientific Discourse,” under the direction of Jeanne Fahnestock.

David K. Coley (PhD, anticipated spring 2008) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, CA). David is completing his dissertation, “The Wheel of Language: Representing Speech in Middle English Narrative, 1377-1422,” under the direction of Theresa Coletti. 

Lara M. Crowley (PhD 2007) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Texas Tech University. Her dissertation, “Manuscript Context and Literary Interpretation: John Donne’s Poetry in Seventeenth-Century England,” was directed by Donna B. Hamilton.

Wendy Hayden (PhD 2007) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Hunter College-CUNY. Her dissertation, “Unlikely Rhetorical Allies: How Science Warranted U.S. Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Sexuality,” was directed by Jeanne Fahnestock. 

Erin Kelly (PhD 2003), currently an Assistant Professor at Nazareth College (Rochester, NY), has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at the University of Georgia. Erin completed her PhD in Renaissance under the direction of Jane Donawerth.  She is currently developing her dissertation into a monograph entitled “Performing Conversion in Early Modern England.” 

Rhondda R. Thomas (PhD 2007), currently a visiting assistant professor at Clemson University, has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Clemson. Her dissertation, “Exodus: Literary Migrations of Afro-Atlantic Authors, 1760-1903,” was directed by Carla Peterson.