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 provide additional funding for students traveling to job interviews and regularly conduct mock interviews to help students prepare. We most recently partnered with Gonzaga University in Spokane to help our students better understand teaching at a small, liberal arts college.
All of this work has helped our students achieve a full-time academic placement rate of over 90%, nearly double the national average. We also welcome students wishing to consider work outside the higher-education setting, where we have had success as well.
While many programs will provide only a selective snapshot of their placement record, our department is committed to providing comprehensive, transparent information for prospective students. Listed below are the initial search outcomes for all of our PhDs over the past five years, with more to be added as this page develops.
Job Placement Data
| Name | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment (If different) | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| Jessica Edwards | Assistant Professor of English, University of Delaware (CTAL Diversity Scholar) | Critical Race Consciousness and the Technical Writing Classroom | |
| Timothy Pearce Durst (Ph.D., 2012) | Assistant Professor of English, University of Montevallo | Multimodal Composition and Electracy: Pedagogical Relays | |
| James (Jim) Haendiges | Assistant Professor of English, Dixie State University | Mobility and the Digital Page | |
| Jared Anthony | Instructor, Spokane Falls Community College | ||
| Paul Muhlhauser | Assistant Professor of English, McDaniel College | Imageneing: The Rhetoric of the Human Gamete Industry | |
| Aaron Moe | Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College | ||
| Sheri Rysdam | Assistant Professor of Basic Composition, Utah Valley University | The Labor of Learning in College Composition | |
| Donna Evans | Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Oregon University | Place Becomes Us: Kairotic Entelechy, Identification, and Political Economy in Harney County, Oregon | |
| Chris Ritter | Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor of English, Clayton State University | |
| Kris Kellejian | Lecturer, University of Washington - Bothell | ||
| Cori Brewster | Associate Professor, Eastern Oregon University | ||
| Frank King | Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Platteville | ||
| Alex Parrish | Assistant Professor, James Madison University | Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion | |
| Lisa Anderson | Clinical Assistant Professor, WSU Tri-Cities, | ||
| Jeanette Weaskus | Clinical Assistant Professor, WSU Pullman | Earthly Rhetorics of Nez Perce Peoples Past, Present, and Future | |
| Jerry Peterson | Assistant Professor, Marygrove College | Assistant Professor of English, Utah Valley University | |
| Erin Mae Clark | Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University, Minnesota | ||
| Andrea Campbell | Clinical Assistant Professor, WSU Tri-Cities | ||
| Andrew McCarthy | Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | ||
| Julie Meloni | Lead Technologist/Architect, University of Virginia | Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Hobsons | |
| Hanzhou Pang | Instructor (Central Oregon CC) | Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) | |
| Michelle Fankhauser | Assistant Professor, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA | ||
| Paula Webb Battistelli | Associate Professor of English, Huston-Tillostson University | ||
| Wendy Olsen | Assistant Professor of English, WSU Vancouver | Associate Professor, Washington State University, Vancouver | |
| Raja Al Khalili | Assistant Professor, Hashemite University, (Zarqa, Jordan) | ||
| Matt Schnackenberg | Assistant Professor , Oregon Institute of Technology | Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology | |
| Verena Theile | Lecturer, Gonzaga | Associate Professor, North Dakota State University | |
| Bethany Blankenship | Assistant Professor of English, University of Montana Western | Associate Professor, University of Montana Western | |
| Nathaniel Gilbert | Assistant Professor, Middle George College | Associate Professor, Middle George College | |
| Laura Gruber (Godfrey) | Assistant Chair/Instructor, North Idaho College | ||
| Asao B. Inoue | Associate Professor of English , California State University-Fresno | Associate Professor, University of Washington-Tacoma | |
| Domita Wiegand | Assistant Professor, Iowa State University | ||
| Jason Miller | Assistant Professor of English , North Carolina State University | Associate Professor, North Carolina State University | |
| Susan McDowall | Adjunct Professor of English, University of Nebraska | ||
| Fiona Glade | Associate Professor, Sacramento State University | Director Writing Center, University of Baltimore | |
| Ingrid Ranum | Department of English, Gonzaga University | ||
| Jennifer Richardson | Assistant Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Hilo | ||
| Caitlin Holmes | BRIDGE Graduate Program Coordinator & Student Success Advisor , George Mason University | Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, George Mason University | |
| Katie Arosteguy | Lecturer, University of California Davis | ||
| Jessica McCarthy | Professor, University of Tennessee Chattanooga | ||
| Gregory Phillips | |||
| Francisco Tomayo | Assistant Professor, California State University-Northridge | ||
| Shelly Richardson | |||
| Ben Bunting | Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology | ||
| Gwen Sullivan | Assistant Professor, Lewis-Clark State College | ||
| Jacob Alden Hughes | |||
| Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey (PhD, 2017) | Assistant Professor, Montana State University Billings | ||
| Edie-Marie Roper (PhD, 2021) | Full-time Instructor, Colorado Mesa University | ||
| Edrees Nawabi (PhD, 2021) | Tenure Track, Lane Community College | Why and How to Teach in the Social Justice Age of Composition | |
| Sherwin Sales (PhD, 2021) | Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Writing Center Director, California State University Long Beach | ||
| Tabitha Espina (PhD, 2020) | Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern Unviversity | Tenure Track, Eastern Oregon University | |
| Lacey Hope (PhD, 2021) | Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow of English, Dixie State University | ||
| Elle Fournier (PhD, 2022) | Full-time Instructional Designer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |