An English Ph.D. program with a distinguished faculty of scholars and writers offering over 50 seminars a year in both established and emerging fields.
08/18/2025
And congratulations to Dr. Emily Price, who successfully defended her dissertation ""Earth took of Earth": Melancholy and Earth in Late Medieval English Literature" on August 15!
Committee members: Karl Steel (Chair), Steve Kruger, and Jonathan W. Gray
The program wishes Emily the very best!
08/18/2025
Congratulations to Dale Ireland, who passed their Orals Examination today!
Committee Members: Talia Schaffer (Chair), Mario DiGangi, and Stephanie Hershinow
04/24/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Stefano Morello, who successfully defended his dissertation "Let's Make a Scene! East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding" today!
Committee members: Eric Lott (Chair), Duncan Faherty, and Matt Gold
The program wishes Stefano the very best!
Congratulations to Dr. Nicole Cote, who successfully defended her dissertation "Mediating Disaster: Shaping Perceptions of Risk, Environment, and Ways Forward" on Tuesday!
Committee members: Matt Gold (Chair), Ashley Dawson, and Joan Richardson
The program wishes Nicole the very best!
04/24/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Sokunthary Svay, who successfully defended her dissertation "The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After the Khmer Rouge Regime" on Monday!
Committee members: Jonathan Gray (Chair), Eric Lott, and Wayne Koestenbaum
The program wishes Sokunthary the very best!
03/17/2025
And congratulations to Dr. Andrew Dunn, who successfully defended his dissertation "Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude: On Media and the Making of Sense" on March 7!
Committee members: Joan Richardson (Chair), Matt Gold, and John Brenkman
The program wishes Andrew the very best!
03/17/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Austin Bailey, who successfully defended his dissertation "American Becomings: Ontology as Critique in the Nineteenth Century" on February 28!
Committee members: Joan Richardson (Chair), David S. Reynolds, and Alexander Schlutz
The program wishes Austin the very best!
12/11/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Kendra Sullivan, who successfully defended her dissertation "The Work of Morning: Administrative Ecologies & Institutional Poetics" today!
Committee members: Ammiel Alcalay (Chair), Matthew Gold, and Celina Su
The program wishes Kendra the very best!
06/18/2024
And congratulations to Dr. Timothy Dalton, who successfully defended his dissertation "Careful Compositions and Careless Constructions" today!
Committee members: Talia Schaffer (Chair), Jessica Yood, and Amy Wan
The program wishes Timothy the very best!
06/18/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Anastasia Vahaviolos, who successfully defended her dissertation "Maternal Subjectivities in the 18th and 19th Century British Novel" last week!
Committee Members: Talia Schaffer (Chair), Carrie Hintz, and Stephanie Hershinow
The program wishes Anastasia the very best!
05/20/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Soojung Choe, who successfully defended her dissertation "Bodies That Traverse: Colonial Fantasies of Oriental Incorporations in Late Medieval England" today!
Committee Members: Steven Kruger (Chair), Glenn Burger, and Karl Steel
The program wishes Soojung the very best!
05/10/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Everitt, who successfully defended his dissertation "A Mute Pleasure: Novelistic Poetics in the Nineteenth-Century" on Monday!
Committee members: Talia Schaffer (Chair), Tanya Agathocleous, and Caroline Reitz
The program wishes Ryan the very best!