Job Placement
Graduates from our Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Composition have gone on to the following positions. Please note that the information below does not always represent the most recent updates. Click here for an overview of completed Ph.D. dissertations.
| Name | Graduation | Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Caitlin Burns Allen | 2024 | Assistant Professor of English, Fine Arts, and Communication, The Citadel |
| Morgan Blair | 2024 | Director of Philanthropy, Corporate Alliance Team, Nemours Children’s Health |
| Lauren Fusilier | 2024 | Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University |
| Brittany Smart | 2023 | Research Technical Writer, Indiana University School of Medicine-Indianapolis |
| Caitlin Ray | 2023 | Grants and Scientific Writer, University of Nebraska Medical Center-Omaha |
| Olalekan Adepoju | 2023 | Lecturer, College of Staten Island |
| Aubrie Cox | 2023 | Assistant Director of the Writing Center/Lecturer, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| Cooper Day | 2023 | Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University |
| Susannah Kilbourne | 2023 | Teacher and Instruction Coordinator, Lafayette High School |
| Tobias Lee | 2023 | Instructor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Shiva Mainaly | 2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow, North Dakota State |
| Charlotte Asmuth | 2022 | Assistant Professor of the Practice, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University |
| Jeb Sharp | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College |
| Walker Smith | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Goucher College |
| Alex Way | 2022 | Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Writing and Rhetoric Studies, University of Utah |
| Megen Boyett | 2021 | Student Development Specialist, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College |
| Edward English | 2021 | Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Baptist University |
| Joseph Franklin | 2021 | Assistant Professor of English, CUNY City Tech |
| Claire Jackson | 2021 | Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo |
| Jessica Newman | 2021 | Director of Tutoring Services, Jefferson Community and Technical College |
| Rachel Rodriguez | 2021 | Director of the Writing Center, Washington College |
| Christopher Scheidler | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Weber State University |
| Michael Baumann | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Marian University |
| Amy McCleese Nichols | 2019 | Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Berea College |
| Patrick Danner | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Misericordia University |
| Michelle Day | 2019 | Upper School English Teacher, American Heritage School, Delray Beach |
| Layne Porta Gordon | 2019 | Tutoring and Writing Center Coordinator, Rollins College |
| Jaclyn Hilberg | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Albright College |
| Ashanka Kumari | 2019 | Associate Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce |
| Jennifer Marciniak | 2019 | Graduate Writing Center Director, Texas Tech University |
| Jon Udelson | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Shenandoah University |
| Rick Wysocki | 2019 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Ball State University |
| Sara P. Alvarez | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY |
| Khirsten Echols | 2018 | Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh |
| Keri Mathis | 2018 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Wake Forest University |
| Laura Matravers | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Chattanooga State University |
| Elliot Tetreault | 2018 | Assistant Professor, University at Albany, SUNY |
| Rachel Gramer | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Illinois State University |
| Meghan Hancock | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Marshall University |
| Megan Hartline | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga |
| Andrew Holladay | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore County |
| Jamila Kareem | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida |
| Ashley Ludewig | 2017 | Office of the Provost, Auburn University |
| Travis Rountree | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University |
| Elizabeth Chamberlain | 2016 | Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University |
| Harley Ferris | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Findlay |
| Brittany Kelley | 2016 | University Writing Program, University of California-Davis |
| Kathryn Perry | 2016 | Assistant Professor, California State University-Los Angeles |
| Stephanie Weaver | 2016 | Lecturer, First Year Writing Program, University of Oklahoma |
| Jessica Winck | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Maine at Augusta |
| Megan Bardolph | 2015 | Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis |
| Ashly Bender Smith | 2015 | Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University |
| Benjamin Bogart | 2015 | Senior Technical Writer, Next Level Solutions |
| Amy Lueck | 2015 | Associate Professor, Santa Clara University |
| Hem Sharma Paudel | 2015 | Lecturer, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa |
| Hollye Wright | 2015 | AP English and Dual-Credit Composition Teacher, Fern Creek High School. Louisville |
| Benjamin Wetherbee | 2015 | Assistant Professor, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma |
| Shannon Howard | 2014 | Associate Professor, Auburn University |
| Carrie Kilfoil | 2014 | Lecturer, University of California-San Diego |
| Tika Lamsal | 2014 | Associate Professor, University of San Francisco |
| Brice Nordquist | 2014 | Associate Professor, Syracuse University |
| Barrie Olson | 2014 | Executive Director of Instructional Design, Carnegie Learning |
| Michael Sobiech | 2014 | Associate Professor, Carson-Newman University |
| John Vance | 2014 | Assistant Professor, Virginia State University |
| Matthew Wiles | 2014 | Instructor, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College |
| Caroline Wilkinson | 2014 | Assistant Professor, New Jersey City University |
| Nancy Bou Ayash | 2013 | Associate Professor, University of Washington |
| Patrick Corbett | 2013 | Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology |
| Laura Detmering | 2013 | Writing Center Director, Spalding University |
| Jason Dietz | 2013 | English Department, Brigham Young University-Idaho |
| Matthew Dowell | 2013 | Assistant Professor, Towson University |
| Dexter Mahaffey | 2013 | Head of School, Vermont Common Schools |
| Deanna McGaughey-Summers | 2013 | Assistant Professor, Kentucky State University |
| Robert Terry | 2013 | Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University |
| Mark Alan Williams | 2013 | Company head, Austin, Texas |
| Alicia Brazeau | 2012 | Writing Center Director, The College of Wooster |
| Shyam Sharma | 2012 | Associate Professor, Stony Brook University |
| Kem Roper | 2012 | Writing Center Director, Alabama A&M University |
