Ph.D. Program Graduates 
Dissertation titles and current positions, 1995-2010
1992
Xiaoming Li, (Composition), Professor of English, Long Island University
1995
Bruce Ballenger (Composition), Beyond Note Cards: Rethinking the Freshman Research Paper, Professor of English and former department Chair at Boise State University
Anne Downey (Literature), ‘The Art of Living’: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Novels, Director of Studies at Shortridge Academy
Etta Madden (Literature), Bodies of Life: Shaker Literacies and Literature, Professor of English, Missouri State University
William Sayres (Literature), The Discourse of Gratitude in the Novels of Jane Austen, Lecturer in English, adjunct in the Humanities Department, University of Maine at Farmington
Lisa Sisco (Literature), Emerging from the Crysalis: Isolation and Publication in Nineteenth-Century Literacy Narratives, Associate Professor, Communication, Johnson and Wales University (RI)
1996
Keith Jones (Literature), Education, Class and Gender in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Donald Jones (Composition), Beyond the Post-Modern Impasse of Contemporary Composition: The NonFoundational Alternative of Deweyan Pragmatism, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, University of Hartford
Lisa M. Stepanski (Composition), “There is No School Like the Family School:” Literacy, Motherteaching, and the Alcott Family, Professor of English; Coordinator, First Year Seminars and Writing Program, Emmanuel College
1997
Stephen Barrett (Composition), This Gonna Hurt Like Hell: A Pentecostal Student Enters the Academy, Idaho State Library System
Paul McCallum (Literature), Public Poetry, Memory, and the Historical Present: 1660-1745, Director of Graduate Study and Professor of English, Pittsburg State University (Kansas)
Anne Malone (Composition), Unruly Acts: An Inquiry into the Art of Letter Writing, Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of English, Department of English & Communication, SUNY Potsdam (deceased)
Michelle Payne (Composition), Bodily Discourses: When Students Write about Sexual Abuse, Physicl Abuse, and Eating Disorders, Chair, Department of English, and former Director of the Writing Program, Boise State University
Lance Svehla (Composition), Composition as a Mode of Being: Politics, Ethics, and History in the Writing Classrooms of Postmodernity, Associate Professor of English, Director of Akron Writing Institute, University of Akron
1998
Jennifer Beard (Literature), Barbara Pym’s Narrative Intersections, Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Boston University
Gretchen DiGeronimo (Literature), Transactional Bond in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown, Associate Professor of English, Becker College (MA)
Deborah Hodgkins (Composition), Constructive Texts: Theory, Practice and the “Self”, Associate Professor of English, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Dorothy Kasik (Composition), Issues of Engendered Entitlement: Who Owns the Classroom? Who Owns Knowledge?, Tumani University, Iringa Tanzania
Carol Kountz (Composition), The Role of Shame in Writing: How Lived Experience Affects the Writing Process, (retired) Associate Professor, Department of Writing, Grand Valley State University
1999
Nancy Lecourt (Literature), Motherwork, Artwork: The Mother/Artist in Fiction by Parton, Phelps, Chopin, Woolf, Drabble, and Walker, Vice-president for Academic Administration at Pacific Union College
Erika Olbricht (Literature), Class in Seventeenth-Century British Drama by Women, Instructor & SAGES Instructional Coordinator, Case Western Reserve University
Nancy Von Rosk (Literature), Domestic Visions and Shifting Identities: The Urban Novel and the Rise of Consumer Culture, Associate Professor of English, Mount Saint Mary’s College (New York)
Carol Keyes (Literature), Language’s “Bliss of Unfolding” in and Through History, Autobiography, and Myth: The Poetry of Rita Dove, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, Hesser College
2000
Laurie Quinn (Literature), Reading for Class: Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Granite State College
William Stroup (Literature), Shelley and the Nature of Nonviolence, Professor of English, Keene State College
Bronwyn T. Williams (Composition), Tuned In: Television and the Teaching of Writing, Professor of English and Director of University Writing Center, University of Louisville
2001
Gregory Bowe (Composition), Taking a Pedagogical Turn: What Happens When the Student/Teacher Conference Moves to the Center of the Basic Writing Course, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing, Florida International University
Timothy Dansdill (Composition), The Composition of Anonymity: Toward a Theory, History, and Pedagogy, Associate Professor of English, Quinnipiac College
Christopher Dean (Composition), Layering Literacies: Computers and Peer Response in the Twenty-first Century, Assistant Professor of English, Southern Connecticut State University
Mary Doyle (Literature), Faith Positions: Re-Reading Gender, Race, and Christianity in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing, Administrative Director of the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, University of New Hampshire
Mary Hallet (Composition), Grief (W)rites: Composing Loss in the Composition Classroom, Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Writing Program, Long Island University
Heidi Kaufman (Literature), Semitic Discourse: English Identity and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware
Stephanie Paterson (Composition), Embodied Narratives: Ways of Reading Student Literacy Histories, Associate Professor of English, Composition Director, California State University at Stanislaus
2002
Elizabeth Anderson (Literature), Excavating the Remains of Empire: War and Postimperial Trauma in the Twentieth-Century Novel
Robert Herschbach (Literature), Gothic Economies: Global Capitalism and the Boundaries of Identity, editor
2003
Megan Fulwiler (Composition), Reading the Personal: Toward a Theory and Practice of Self in Student Writing, Associate Professor, The College of Saint Rose, Albany
Richard Walters (Literature), Performing Texts: Playing With Jazz Aesthetics, Assistant Professor and Chair, English Department, New Hampshire Community Technical College
2004
Amy Zenger (Composition), Writing American Subjects: Race, Composition, and the Daily Themes Assignment for English 12 at Harvard, 1886-86, Assistant Professor of English, American University of Beirut
2005
Emily Hinnov (Literature), Choran Community: The Aesthetics of Encounter in Literary and Photographic Modernism, Lecturer of Humanities at Boston University
Joyce Rain Anderson (Composition), Indians and Immigrants: Survivance Stories of Literacies, 2005, Assistant Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts.
2006
Keith Botelho (Literature), Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama (Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson), Assistant Professor of English, Coordinator of Internships, Gender and Women’s Studies, Kennisaw State University
Michelle Cox (Composition), When the Workplace is on Campus: Learning to Write for a University Speech Language Clinic, 2006, Assistant Professor of English, Bridgewater State University.
Andrew Lopenzina (Literature), Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period, Assistant Professor of English, Sam Houston University
2007
Michael Michaud (Composition), IT Managers, Construction Marketers, and Emergency Medical Technicians: Professional Adult Learners in Higher Education, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island College
Laura Smith (Literature), Material Culture and Domestic Texts: Textiles in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps, Lecturer in English, University of New Hampshire
Kate Tirabassi (Composition), Revisiting the "Current Traditional Era": Innovations in Writing Instruction at the University of New Hampshire, 1940-1949, Assistant Professor, Keene State College
2008
Sally Hirsh-Dickinson (Literature), Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place, Instructor, Rivier College and Weekend Host, Saturday Mornings, at New Hampshire Public Radio
Sharon Kehl-Califano (Literature), The Comradeship of the "Happy Few": Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the
Pederastic Tradition, Co-Department Chair of Liberal Studies, Hesser College
Alison Knoblauch (Composition), Teaching Toward Understanding: Feminist Rhetorical Theories and Pedagogies
in the College Composition Classroom, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
2009
Joleen Hanson (Composition), Knowing More Than They Can Tell: An Assessment of Genre Awareness Among Students in Writing Intensive Zoology and Civil Engineering Courses, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Christina Healey (Literature), Excavating the Landscapes of American Literature: Archaeology, Antiquarianism, and the Landscape in American Women's Writing, 1820-1890, Adjunct Instructor of English, Merrimack College
Christopher Scott Massey (Literature), Absent Meaning: Fascination, Narrative, and Trauma in the Holocaust Imaginary
Meagan Rodgers (Composition), "Racism is a Misunderstanding": Rhetorically Listening to White Students' Performances of Race, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Kuhio Walters (Composition), Arresting Beauty, Framing Evidence: An Inquiry into Photography and the Teaching of Writing, Assistant Professor, West Chester University
2010
Michael DePalma (Composition), Archiving the Sacred: Austin Phelps and the Adaptation of Nineteenth-Century Rhetorical Education at Andover Theological Seminar, Assistant Professor, Baylor University
Mike Garcia (Composition), Politics and Ethics of Student Self-Assessment in the Composition Classroom, Assistant Professor, Augusta State University
Nicola Imbracsio (Literature), Corpses Revealed: The Staging of the Theatrical Corpse in Early Modern Drama
Jeffrey Ringer (Composition), Who Do I Say I Am? Evangelical Identity and Academic Writing, Assistant Professor, Lee University
Steven Simpson (Composition), Learning Systems: An Ecological Perspective on Advanced Academic Literacy Practices of Multilingual Writers, Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech
2011
Amy Manning (Literature), Raping the Raced Body: Trauma in Asian North American Women's Literature, Writing consultant for WriteGuide.com
Alexandra Peary (Composition), The Self-Help of Composition: Peter Elbow's Writing Without Teachers, Composition Studies, and the Extracurriculum, Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Melissa Siik (Literature), "The Alien Within": Residual Catholicism and the Emerging National Identity of Post-Reformation England, Lecturer, The College of Saint Mary Magdalen
Jason Williams (Literature), Competing Visions: Women Writers and Male Illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University - Idaho
2012
Katherine Gillen (Literature), The Most Matchless Jewel: Economic Anxieties and Representations of Chastity on the Early Modern Stage, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University - San Antonio
Matthew Hurwitz (Literature), 1960's Travel Fiction and Englishness During the Postimperial Turn, Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Peterson, Michael (Composition), Created in the Image of: Mormonism and the Rhetorical Production of Identity in Privately-Published Family Histories, Writing Program Administrator, University of the Pacific - Stockton
Webber, James (Composition), Towards Public Professionalism: A Pentadic Intervention in Debate Between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno