Job Placement

PhD Job Placement After Graduation

You will graduate from the doctoral program a productive teacher, scholar, and writer. The PhD with creative dissertation program at the University of Cincinnati has maintained over the last decade 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 Rhodes College, Centre College, and Hamilton College, as well as such state universities as Princeton University, Clemson University, University of Tampa, University of Illinois, and University of Central Florida. Our graduates have also found full-time employment as editors.

The Department’s Job Market Committee mentors students as they pursue academic positions. Faculty members from Creative Writing, Literary and Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric and Composition workshop students’ application materials, and arrange for practice MLA interviews and job talks. 

Recent Placements

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

  • Paige Webb ('25), Assistant Teaching Professor, Rockhurst University 
  • David Schwartz ('24), Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida 
  • Marianne Chan ('23), Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University MFA Program  
  • Lily Meyer ('23), Translator-in-Residence, Princeton University 
  • Natalie Villacorta ('23), Assistant Professor, Agnes Scott College
  • Maia Morgan ('23), Educator Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati 
  • Cara Dees ('22), Assistant Professor, Belmont University 
  • Afsheen Farhadi ('22), Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Yalie Saweda Kamara ('22), Assistant Professor, Xavier University; Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate
  • Claire Kortyna ('22), Assistant Professor, Arkansas Tech University
  • Maggie Su ('22), Assistant Director of University Writing Center and Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame  
  • Madeleine Wattenberg ('22), Assistant Professor, Lakeland University  
  • Kimberly Grey ('21), Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
  • Sakinah Hofler ('21), Lecturer, Princeton University
  • Jess Jelsma Masterton ('20), Assistant Professor and Director of the SU Press, Susquehanna University
  • Emily Skaja ('19), Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
  • Corey Van Landingham ('19), Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
  • Molly Reid ('19), Emerging Writer Lecturer, Gettsyburg College
  • Daniel Paul ('19), Visiting Assistant Professor, Rollins College
  • Julialicia Case ('19), Instructor, University of Wisconsin Green Bay
  • Ryan Ruff Smith ('19), Tickner Writing Fellow, Gilman School
  • Gwen Kirby ('18), Assistant Professor, Carleton College 
  • Jennifer Fawkes ('18), Assistant Professor, West Liberty University
  • Bess Winter ('17), Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
  • Rochelle Hurt ('17), Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
  • Brenda Peynado ('17), Assistant Professor, University of Houston
  • Woody Skinner ('17), Instructor, Eastern Illinois University
  • José Angel Araguz ('17), Assistant Professor, Suffolk University
  • Samantha Edmonds ('17), Assistant Professor, Berry Collge 
  • Sarah Anne Strickley ('16), Assistant Professor, University of Louisville
  • Julia Koets ('16), Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
  • Leah McCormack ('15), Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
  • Brian Brodeur ('15), Assistant Professor, Indiana University East
  • Anne Valente ('15), Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
  • Heather Hamilton ('15), Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State Harrisburg
  • Brian Trapp ('15), Kidd Program Director, University of Oregon
  • Christian Moody ('14), Assistant Professor, Franklin College
  • Michelle Y. Burke ('14), Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
  • Lisa Ampleman ('13), Managing Editor, The Cincinnati Review
  • Josh Bell ('13), Senior Lecturer, Harvard University
  • Andrew Grace ('13), Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
  • Tessa Mellas ('13), Assistant Professor, University of Maine Machias
  • Ruth Williams ('13), Associate Professor, William Jewell College
  • Eric Bliman ('13), Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State Harrisburg