Graduate Placement

The UCI PhD Program in English has placed graduates in a wide range of careers, from tenure-track appointments at research universities to "alt-ac" positions in humanities education and university administration to opportunities in private-sector employment. For our most recent graduating class of 2018, 40% of graduates found tenure-track faculty positions and 30% entered non-tenure-track or alt-ac positions. More broadly, of the students who received their PhDs between 2011 and 2018, 35% are tenure-track faculty and 50% are non-tenure track instructors or in alt-ac positions.

The placement information below offers detail on the positions obtained by our graduates alongside information about their dissertation research.

(Dates refer to year of appointment rather than year of graduation. All assistant professor appointments tenure track unless otherwise noted.)

(All assistant professor appointments tenure track unless otherwise noted.)

2020

Loretta Ramirez
Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach
Dissertation: "Textual and Visual Rhetorics of the Generative Wound: A Historical Genealogy from Medieval Iberia to Contemporary Chicanx Self-Representation Strategies and Pedagogies."

2019

Christopher Taekwan Kang
Assistant Professor, College of Wooster
Dissertation: "“Zero Ecology: A Study of British Romantic Poetry”"

Gerald Maa
Editor, The Georgia Review, University of Georgia
Dissertation: "“Thomas De Quincey's Theatric Prose: Theater, Rhetoric, and Literature after the British Enlightenment”"

Alden Sajor Marte-Wood
Assistant Professor, Rice University
Dissertation: "Philippine Anglophone Literature in the Age of Reproductive Labor"