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PhD - Placement

You will graduate from the doctoral program a productive teacher, scholar and writer. The University of Cincinnati maintains more than a 75% placement rate into full-time academic jobs for its doctoral graduates. Two-thirds of these positions are tenure-track. Institutions hiring our graduates have included such liberal arts colleges as Emory & Henry, Mercyhurst, Xavier, and the College of Mount St. Joseph, as well as such state universities as Middle Tennessee State, East Tennessee State, Cleveland State, Michigan State, and several two-year universities. Our graduates have also found full-time employment as editors and corporate writers and trainers.

Graduate students in the Department of English have recently accepted the following academic positions:

• Tenure-track position at Stockton College of New Jersey in Poetry and Literature.
• Tenure-track assistant professor in Creative Writing-Poetry at Clemson University in South Carolina.

• Fiction writing and contemporary literature teaching position at Centre College in Kentucky.

• Assistant professor of English at St. Andrew's College
• Fiction writing teaching position at Western Kentucky University.