Graduate Placement

our graduate students become sought-after scholars

The list below provides current employment information for 26 of the 28 students who have received a PhD in Comparative Literature or German and Comparative Literature since 2014.

 

Sayed Qashou 

PhD 2024

Assistant Professor, Emerson College

 

Tobias Feldmann

PhD 2024 

Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis

 

Alireza Taheri Aragu

PhD 2023

VAP in English, Penn State

 

Sandra Weber

PhD 2023

Assistant Director, Graduate and Professional Student Engagement, Washington University

 

Rebecca Jordan 

PhD 2023

Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College

 

Gonul Kigilcim 

PhD 2023

Freelance Writer

 

Peter Ogunniran

PhD 2023

Assistant Professor, Williams College

 

Anothai Kaewkaen 

PhD 2023

Tourism Authority of Thailand (marketing)

 

Karlis Verdins

PhD 2022

Lecturer, Art Academy of Latvia

 

Katja Perat

PhD 2022

Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage

 

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

PhD 2022

Teacher, Greenwich Country Day School

 

Di Wang 

PhD 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher, Yuela Academy

 

Baba Badji 

PhD 2021

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

 

Annelise Wasmoen

PhD 2021 

Clinical Associate Professor, Director Translation Program, NYU

 

Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim

PhD 2021

Instructor, Sabanci University 

 

Aaron Coleman

PhD 2021

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

 

Wenjia Chen

PhD 2021

Assistant Professor of English, Fudan University

Bethany Morgan

PhD 2021

Assistant Teaching Professor of German Studies, Iowa State

 

Thomas Scholz

PhD 2020

Head of Artificial Intelligence Unit, Baum & Garten GmbH

 

Ena Selimovic

PhD 2020

Freelance Writer and Translator

Asher Gelzer-Govatos

PhD 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College at LSU

 

Erika Rodriguez

PhD 2019

Assistant Professor of Spanish, San Diego State

 

Matthias Goeritz

PhD 2019

Professor of the Practice, Washington University

 

Heidi Grek

PhD 2019

Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross


Amy Braun

PhD 2019 

Associate Director of Experiential Learning, Employer Partnerships, and Life Design Education, Johns Hopkins

 

Melody Yunzi Li

PhD 2018

Assistant Professor, University of Houston

 

Lei Qin

PhD 2017

Assistant Teaching Professor, UCLA

 

Matthew Miller

PhD 2016

Assistant Professor, Persian Literature & Digital Humanities, University of Maryland

 

Julia Leverone

PhD 2016

Assistant Professor of Spanish, West Virginia University, Potomac College

 

Aysegül Turan

PhD 2015

Assistant Professor, Istanbul Kultur University

 

Nicholas Helfand Tamarkin

PhD 2015

Instructor, Seattle University

 

Melissa Olson Meeks

PhD 2015

Freelance Writer

 

Lisa Haegele 

PhD 2014

Professor, Texas State University

 

Maya Ganapathy

PhD 2014

Assistant Dean of Advising, Washington University

 

Jessica Hutchins 

PhD 2014

Lecturer, SIUE