Department of English

Recent Alumni

For more, visit the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Spotlights webpage (scroll down to the Degree/Discipline section--Masters and PhD in Humanities). 

Assistant Director, Operations & Academic Administration, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University.

Hanh Bui, GSAS PhD’21

Teaching and Research Fellow, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK. Read more.

Jacob Burg, GSAS PhD’20

Lecturer and Writing Center Coordinator, Boston University. Read more.

Jordan Clapper, GSAS PhD '22

Assistant Professor of Game Development and Design in the Program of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University

Cara DuBois, GSAS jt MA’20

Associate Production Editor at Penguin Random House.

Paige Eggebrecht, GSAS PhD’21

Indexer at the MLA International Bibliography

Lecturer and Faculty Advisor to the Writing Center, Brandeis University.

Diana Filar, GSAS PhD’21

Diana has a tenure-track position at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Following graduation, Diana served as Departmental Administrator, Dean of Arts and Sciences Office, Brandeis University.

Diana was a guest of the Shelf Love podcast. The episode is titled, "I've Got No Roots: White Immigrant Assimilation & (Romance) Adaptation."

Publications:

  • "Finding Jane: Lyric Individualism, True Crime, and Maggie Nelson's Multiplicity, Contemporary Literature.
  • "Introduction: An Adorno for the Twenty-First Century" with Caren Irr, Adorno’s ‘Minima Moralia’ in the 21th Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota.

Lianne Gallant, GSAS jt MA’21

Adjunct Sociology Instructor at Merrimack College.

Lecturer in the Writing Program at NYU Shanghai.

Postdoctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Courtney Pina Miller, GSAS PhD’21

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard College Writing Program.

Brenden O'Donnell, GSAS PhD’20

English teacher at Gann Academy.

Patrick Sylvain, GSAS PhD '22

Assistant Professor of Global / Transnational / Postcolonial Literature in the Department of Literature and Writing at Simmons University