Alumni and Job Placement
Graduate Student Placement
WSU’s Department of English is committed to supporting its graduate students throughout their training and job search. Mentors and program directors, including our job placement faculty, work closely with students to identify their particular career interests—academic and non-academic—and develop an effective, comprehensive set of application materials (CVs, letters, teaching portfolios). We also offer professional development events and regularly conduct mock interviews to help students prepare for the job market.
These efforts have helped our students successfully secure a range of full-time positions in higher-education institutions and beyond. Our department is committed to providing comprehensive, transparent information for prospective students. Listed below are the initial search outcomes for recent PhD graduates.
Job Placement Data
| Name | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment (If different) | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Moe (PhD, 2013) | Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College | Zoopoetics: Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, Brenda Hillman--& Other Animal Makers | |
| Alex Parrish | Assistant Professor, James Madison University | Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion | |
| Andrea Campbell | Clinical Assistant Professor, WSU Tri-Cities | ||
| Andrew McCarthy | Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | ||
| Asao B. Inoue | Associate Professor of English , California State University-Fresno | Associate Professor, University of Washington-Tacoma | |
| Ben Bunting | Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology | ||
| Bethany Blankenship | Assistant Professor of English, University of Montana Western | Associate Professor, University of Montana Western | |
| Caitlin Holmes | BRIDGE Graduate Program Coordinator & Student Success Advisor , George Mason University | Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, George Mason University | |
| Chanelle Fournier (PhD, 2022) | Full-time Instructional Designer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks | A Cultivated Territory: The Columbia Valley and the Rhetorical Construction of Place | |
| Chris Ritter | Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor of English, Clayton State University | |
| Cori Brewster | Associate Professor, Eastern Oregon University | ||
| Domita Wiegand | Assistant Professor, Iowa State University | ||
| Donna Evans | Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Oregon University | Place Becomes Us: Kairotic Entelechy, Identification, and Political Economy in Harney County, Oregon | |
| Edith-Marie Roper (PhD, 2020) | Full-time Instructor, Colorado Mesa University | Intercultural: Finding Meaning Between Polarized Rhetorics | |
| Edrees Nawabi (PhD, 2021) | Tenure Track, Lane Community College | Why and How to Teach in the Social Justice Age of Composition | |
| Elizabeth Forsythe (PhD, 2025) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Cincinnati | Cyborg Futures: Disability, Difference, and Resistance in the University | |
| Elizabeth Salazar (PhD, 2024) | Lecturer, Department of English, Washington State University | Almost Everything, Worse Than Nothing: Gender and the Brother-Sister Relationship in British Literature, 1600-1815 |
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| Erin Mae Clark | Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University, Minnesota | ||
| Fiona Glade | Associate Professor, Sacramento State University | Director Writing Center, University of Baltimore | |
| Francisco Tomayo | Assistant Professor, California State University-Northridge | ||
| Frank King | Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Platteville | ||
| Gregory Phillips | |||
| Gwen Sullivan | Assistant Professor, Lewis-Clark State College | ||
| Hanzhou Pang | Instructor (Central Oregon CC) | Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) | |
| Heather Ramos (PhD, 2022) | Instructor of English, Glendale Community College | Women of Color Writing at the Intersections of the Medical and Environmental Humanities: Towards a Socially Just Education | |
| Ingrid Ranum | Department of English, Gonzaga University | ||
| Jacob Alden Hughes | |||
| James (Jim) Haendiges | Assistant Professor of English, Dixie State University | Mobility and the Digital Page | |
| Jared Anthony | Instructor, Spokane Falls Community College | ||
| Jason Miller | Assistant Professor of English , North Carolina State University | Associate Professor, North Carolina State University | |
| Jeanette Weaskus | Clinical Assistant Professor, WSU Pullman | Earthly Rhetorics of Nez Perce Peoples Past, Present, and Future | |
| Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey (PhD, 2017) | English Instructor, Washington State University Tri-Cities | Assistant Professor, Montana State University Billings | Shaping the Deathly Self: Engagements with Mortality in Early Modern English Literature |
| Jennifer Richardson | Assistant Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Hilo | ||
| Jerry Peterson | Assistant Professor, Marygrove College | Assistant Professor of English, Utah Valley University | |
| Jessica Edwards | Assistant Professor of English, University of Delaware (CTAL Diversity Scholar) | Critical Race Consciousness and the Technical Writing Classroom | |
| Jessica McCarthy | Professor, University of Tennessee Chattanooga | ||
| Julie Meloni | Lead Technologist/Architect, University of Virginia | Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Hobsons | |
| Kara Falknor (PhD, 2020) | Technical Editor, Los Alamos National Laboratory | "The Brute Earth Would Lend Her Nerves and Shake": Violent Female Speech in Early Modern Drama | |
| Kathryn Manis (PhD, 2023) | Community Engagement Librarian, University of Georgia | Program Lead, Digital Library of Georgia | Unexamined Standards and Complex Histories: Case Studies on Rhetoricity, Transgression, and Decolonial Praxis in Archives |
| Katie Arosteguy | Lecturer, University of California Davis | ||
| Kris Kellejian | Lecturer, University of Washington - Bothell | ||
| Lacey Hope (PhD, 2021) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, Utah Tech University | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Utah Tech University | Civility in the Age of Algorithms |
| Laura Gruber (Godfrey) | Assistant Chair/Instructor, North Idaho College | ||
| Leah Wilson (PhD, 2021) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Material Bodies and Textual Selves: Reimagining Gender and Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century |
| Lindsey Carman (PhD, 2022) | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Florida | Assistant Professor of English, Columbia College | An Age of Uncertainty: Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Science, Authority, and the Female Spiritualist in British and American Women's Supernatural Fiction, 1854-1937 |
| Lisa Anderson | Clinical Assistant Professor, WSU Tri-Cities, | ||
| Lori Beth De Hertogh | Assistant Professor, School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, James Madison University | Community-Based Digital Literacies: A Cyberfeminist Analysis of Literacy Practices in Birth Without Fear | |
| Matt Schnackenberg | Assistant Professor , Oregon Institute of Technology | Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology | |
| Michelle Fankhauser | Assistant Professor, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA | ||
| Misty Ellingburg (PhD, 2023) | Writer and Director | I Don't Remember the Fire, I Only Have the Stories: The Handsome Man and Wasteland's Move Toward Decolonizing Native American Representation in Film | |
| Nathaniel Gilbert | Assistant Professor, Middle George College | Associate Professor, Middle George College | |
| Nouf Alqahtani (PhD, 2023) | Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia) | Arabic Students' Perspectives on Writing Center Use and the Impact of Tutoring on Their Writing | |
| Paul Muhlhauser | Assistant Professor of English, McDaniel College | Imageneing: The Rhetoric of the Human Gamete Industry | |
| Paula Webb Battistelli | Associate Professor of English, Huston-Tillostson University | ||
| Rachael Wolney (PhD, 2025) | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Illinois State University | Disability and Education: A Qualitative Study of Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions of Resources, Accountability, and Relationships | |
| Raja Al Khalili | Assistant Professor, Hashemite University, (Zarqa, Jordan) | ||
| Rasina Tanvir (PhD, 2022) | Healthcare Professional | Ghosts in the Water: Environmental Justice in the Contemporary Novel | |
| Richard D. Snyder (PhD, 2022) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington State University, Vancouver | Assistant Professor and Chair, Communication Studies, Northwest University | Word and Image in Early Modern Literature: A Digital Approach to Reading in Context |
| Shelly Richardson (PhD, 2011) | Instructor, Department of English, Washington State University | ||
| Sheri Rysdam | Assistant Professor of Basic Composition, Utah Valley University | The Labor of Learning in College Composition | |
| Sherwin Sales (PhD, 2021) | Assistant Professor of English / Writing Center Director, California State University - Dominguez Hills | Counterstories from the Center: Considering Asian Pacific American Identity Within Writing Center Spaces | |
| Susan McDowall | Adjunct Professor of English, University of Nebraska | ||
| Tabitha Espina (PhD, 2020) | Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern Unviversity | Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Writing Studies, University of Washington Tacoma | Unsettling the Rhetorics of the Politics of Filipinos on Guåhan |
| Timothy Pearce Durst (PhD, 2012) | Assistant Professor of English, University of Montevallo | Multimodal Composition and Electracy: Pedagogical Relays | |
| Verena Theile | Lecturer, Gonzaga | Associate Professor, North Dakota State University | |
| Walter Brooklyn (PhD, 2024) | Director, WSU Writing Center, Washington State University | Understanding Peer Writing Tutors' Sense of Self and Sense of Job for Improved Tutor Training: A Critical Discourse Analysis | |
| Wendy Olson (PhD, 2006) | Assistant Professor of English, WSU Vancouver | Professor, Washington State University, Vancouver | Toward a Political Economy of Basic Writing |