Career Support and Alumni Success
Career Support and Alumni Success
Graduate students benefit from robustÌýprofessional development opportunitiesÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýcareer servicesÌýat CU Boulder.Ìý On-campus resources for graduate students include:
The Department of English also elects a faculty member to serve annually as the Graduate Placement Officer. The Graduate Placement Officer advises and assists students who are preparing to enter the job market. They also hold workshops, host guest speakers, and conduct mock job interviews.
Our PhD graduates obtain jobs around the world in a variety of academic and non-academic roles. Below is a selection of our PhD’s who are currently working inside and outside of academia. While we make every effort to keep this list current, some information may have changed.Ìý
2022
- Tarren Andrews
Tenure track position at Yale ³Ô¹ÏÍø
2021
- Josette Lorig
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Grace Rexroth
Learning Assistant Pedagogy Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2020
- Jim Miranda
Assistant Professor at Bentley ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Massachusetts
2019
- Nodin DeSaillan
Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, UC Santa Cruz, California - Christie-Anne Leopold
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Deven Parker
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary ³Ô¹ÏÍø of London - Rebecca Schneider
Visiting Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College, Colorado - Allison Shelton
Writer and Curriculum Developer at Wix.com
2018
- Alaina Bupp
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Jarad Krywicki
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Melanie Lo
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2017
- Alexander Corey
Lecturer at Harvard ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Massachusetts - Cynthia Drake
Assistant Professor, Associate Dean of NaropaÌýCollege Core Faculty, Colorado - Darin Graber
Visiting Assistant Professor atÌýSewanee, Tennessee - Christopher Haynes
Director of Learning Experience DesignÌýat ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Kurtis Hessel
Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Judith Strathearn
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
Lecturer at Metropolitan State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Colorado
2016
- Aaron Angello
Assistant Professor at Hood College, Maryland - Jenny Cookson
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Andrew Daigle
Lecturer at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Randall Fullington
Director of Program DevelopmentÌýat ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Sarah Hernandez
Assistant Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico - Daniel Larson
Assistant Professor at Fresno Pacific ³Ô¹ÏÍø, California
2015
- Ann Emmons
Adjunct Assistant Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Montana - Quentin McAndrew
Executive Director, Digital Initiatives and Assistant Vice Provost at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2014
- Erin M. Kingsley
Assistant Professor at King ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Tennessee - Thomas LeCarner
Teacher at Prospect Ridge Academy, Colorado
2013
- John C. Leffel
Assistant Professor at State ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New York at Cortland
2012
- Dawn Colley
Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Peter Remien
Associate Professor at Lewis and Clark State College, Idaho - Michelle Speitz
AssociateÌýProfessor, Director of Furman Humanities Center at Furman ³Ô¹ÏÍø, South Carolina - Shu-Ching Wu
Assistant Professor at Keinan ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Taiwan
2011
- Patrick Pritchett
Visiting Lecturer at Westfield State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Massachusetts
2010
- Geoffrey Bateman
AssociateÌýProfessor, Associate Dean for Student Support and Experiential LearningÌýat Regis ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Colorado - David Broom
Award-winning author and Contributing EditorÌýof Whisky Magazine - Abayomi Victor Okunowo
Assistant Professor at Tai Solarin ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Education, Nigeria - Terry Robinson
Assistant Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Toronto, Canada - Jesse Stommel
Executive Director, Digital Learning Fellow, and Senior LecturerÌýat ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Mary Washington, Virginia - Dana Van Kooy
Assistant Professor at Michigan Technical ³Ô¹ÏÍø
2009
- Katarzyna Lecky
Assistant Professor at Bucknell ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Pennsylvania
2008
- Ruben Espinosa
Associate Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Texas at El Paso - Maria O’Malley
Assistant Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Nebraska at Kearney
2007
- Kathleen Dunley
Faculty at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Phoenix - Sarah Massey-Warren
Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Stephen Mexal
Professor at California State ³Ô¹ÏÍø Fullerton
2006
- Elizabeth Anderman
Instructor, Associate Director at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Renee Dickinson
AssociateÌýProfessor at Radford ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Virginia - Patrick Hamilton
Associate Professor and Chair at Misericordia ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Pennsylvania - Lorna Raven
Wheeler Associate Dean at Ashford ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Iowa
2005
- Andrew Dorsey
Assistant Professor at California State ³Ô¹ÏÍø Stanislaus - Trish Manwaring
Teacher at Mill Valley Middle School, California - Michael Stoneham
Professor at US Military Academy West Point, New York
Division Chair at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Erika Wurth
Professor at Western Illinois ³Ô¹ÏÍø
2004
- Robin Calland
Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Colorado - Teresa Nugent
​Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2003
- Bryan Bott
Assistant Professor at Adrian College, Michigan - Frank McGill
Assistant Professor at Regis ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Colorado - Russell Samolsky
Associate Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Santa Barbara
2002
- Mohammed Alquwaizani
Professor at Al-Imam ³Ô¹ÏÍø ibn Saud Islamic ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Saudi Arabia - Sara Morrison
Associate Professor at William Jewell College, Missouri - Sarah Peterson Pittock
​Lecturer, Associate Director of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking at Stanford ³Ô¹ÏÍø, California
2001 & Earlier
- Jordan Landry
Associate Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Stuart Rabinowitz
Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Northern Colorado - Christine Macdonald
Senior Instructor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Deborah Uman
Professor and Chair at St. John Fisher College, New York - Joel F. Daehnke
Assistant Professor of English at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Northern Colorado - Gloria Schultz Eastman
Professor at Metropolitan State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Colorado - Rhonda L. Sanford
Professor at Fairmont State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, West Virginia - Cynthia MacKenzie
Associate Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - Trace Reddell
Associate Professor at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver, Colorado - Martha Stoddard
Holmes Professor at California State ³Ô¹ÏÍø San Marcos - Pamela Thoma
Associate Professor, Graduate Director at Washington State ³Ô¹ÏÍø - David Dowling
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Iowa - Henry Krusiewicz
Professor at Midland ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Nebraska - John Holmes
Associate Professor at Virginia State ³Ô¹ÏÍø - Jason G. Horn
Professor at Gordon College, Georgia - Mary Coogan
Adjunct Professor at Kean ³Ô¹ÏÍø, New Jersey - Bruce R. Stevenson
Associate Professor at California Lutheran ³Ô¹ÏÍø - Michele Lise Tarter
Professor at The College of New Jersey - Apryl Denny
Professor at Viterbo ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Wisconsin - Carol S. Loranger
Associate Professor, Chair at Wright State ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Ohio - Linda Macdonald
Assistant Professor at Dalhousie ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Nova Scotia, Canada - Joan Gabriel
Director, Special Undergraduate Enrichment Programs at ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder - Marni Gauthier
Owner, Professional Trainer, and Coach of Four Site Leadership, Colorado
Our Master of Arts in Literature graduates go on to successful careers inside and outside of academia. Since 2009, our MA graduates have been accepted into the following PhD programs:
- Baylor ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Brown ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Case Western Reserve ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Cornell ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Duke ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Northwestern ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Ohio State ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Princeton ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Rutgers ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- SUNY-Buffalo
- Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø at Buffalo
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Berkeley
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Davis
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Los Angeles
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Santa Barbara
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Chicago
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Delaware
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Maryland
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Minnesota
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Montana
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of New Mexico
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Notre Dame
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Oregon
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Pittsburgh
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Toronto, Canada
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Virginia
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Western Ontario, Canada
Many of our Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing graduates go on to successful careers as writers. To view a list of published work by Creative Writing alumni, go here.
Some choose to continue on to a PhD and have been accepted into the following programs since 2009:
- Duke ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Florida State ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- Ohio State ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- SUNY-Buffalo
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California Santa Cruz
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Georgia
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Kansas
- ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Utah