Graduate Job Placements
The Director of Graduate Placement and the department's Placement Committee assist students with the academic job search as well as job options outside of the academy.
UMD English’s graduate program maintains a departmental website with complete information about the job search process, including the basic protocols and timelines, advice for academic and non-academic job searches and other relevant materials. Enrolled graduate students should contact the director to be given access to this site.
Contact
Preparation
Preparation for the academic job search begins in the spring semester, when the director convenes a meeting for Ph.D. candidates who intend to conduct an academic job search in the following school year. Providing practical and moral support through the long process of searching for an academic job, the director meets individually with all job candidates and, with the Placement Committee, reviews all materials that candidates prepare for the search (including letters of application, curriculum vitae, dissertation abstracts and statements of teaching philosophy). The Placement Committee also conducts mock interviews and arranges for mock job talks for job seekers.
The national visibility of our graduate program, the excellence of our students and our commitment to graduate-student mentoring have contributed to our excellent job placement record. Our students take jobs at public and private research universities, regional comprehensive state universities, liberal arts colleges and community colleges. Some have received prestigious postdoctoral appointments such as those funded by the American Council of Learned Societies.
The director also works closely with the ARHU Career Development Center in helping students to explore employment opportunities in the public and private sectors. Several of our Ph.D. students have gone on to careers in the alternative academic sector at non-profit organizations, cultural heritage foundations, advocacy centers and federal agencies (such as the National Endowment for the Humanities), a process facilitated by the University of Maryland’s ties to the institutional culture of Washington, D.C.
Recent Ph.D. Placements
| 2023-2024 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Frederick O’Neal Cherry | Assistant Professor of African American Literature, Auburn University | |
| Alexis Walston | Assistant Professor of English, Belmont University |
| 2022-2023 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Fatima Taha | Marketing and Communications Manager, ADP HR and Tax Services | |
| Jenny Schollaert | Project Manager “Poetry as Activism,” University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press | |
| Elizabeth Catchmark | Director of Writing Center, Georgetown University |
| 2021-2022 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Norrell Edwards | Tenure-track position at Le Moyne College. Assistant Professor of English and the 75th Anniversary Endowed Professor of the Humanities. | |
| Aqdas Aftab | Assistant Professor at Loyola University of Chicago. | |
| Joseph Good | Assistant Teaching Professor at Pennsylvania State University State | |
| Keisha Allan | Postdoctoral Fellow at Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center, University of Maryland | |
| Kyle Bickoff | Program Analyst at the U.S. Department of Transportation | |
| Justine DeCamillis | Assistant Director of Justice and Legal Thought, University of Maryland | |
| Hillary Roegelein | Associate Media Editor in History at W.W. Norton & Company in New York City | |
| Nabila Hijazii | Post-doctoral Fellow in the Loyola University Writing Department |
| 2019-2020 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Norrell Edwards | Assistant Director of Education at the Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative |
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| Jeffrey Griswold | Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship at George Mason University | |
| DeLisa Hawkes | Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas-El Paso | |
| Nathan Tillman | Promotion-track position at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee |
| 2018-2019 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Sarah Bonnie Humud | Associate Director of Honors Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Kara Fontenot | Full-time Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
| Emily Perez | Awarded two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland—Baltimore County | |
| Nataliya Pratsovyta | Full-time position in the Philology department at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine | |
| Nathaniel Underland | Director of Operations for the Brain and Behavior Initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park |
| 2017-2018 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Oliver Brearey | Senior Analytical Writer/Editor, Office of Institutional Research, Northern Virginia Community College | |
| Nathan Kelber | Tenure-track Assistant Librarian, Digital Scholarship Specialist UNC-Chapel Hill | |
| Ruth Osorio | Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University | |
| Jonathan Williams | Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) | |
| Emily Yoon | Lecturer, Loyola University Maryland |
| 2016-2017 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Elizabeth DePriest | English Faculty, Arundel High School | |
| Thomas Geary | Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Tidewater Community College | |
| Jamison Kantor | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, Mansfield | |
| Nathan Kelber | Manager of Digital Projects, Detroit Historical Society | |
| Jeremy Metz | Upper School English Faculty, The Potomac School | |
| Elizabeth Ellis Miller | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University | |
| Katie Stanutz | Assistant Director of the University Honors Program, University of Maryland | |
| Maggie Ray | English Faculty, Prince George's County Resident Teacher's Program | |
| Rob Wakeman | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Mary College; 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Florida |
| 2015-2016 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Chris Brown | Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University; ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Princeton University, 2014-16 | |
| Christin Taylor | Assistant Professor, Shenandoah University | |
| Rob Wakeman | Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of South Florida |
| 2014-2015 | Name | Program or Job Placement |
| Michelle Boswell | Faculty, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria VA | |
| Gillian Knoll | Assistant professor, Western Kentucky University | |
| Heather Lindenman | Assistant professor, Elon University |
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| Lisa Rhody | Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center; Research Assistant Professor at the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2012-15 | |
| Amanda Visconti | Assistant Professor, Purdue University Library | |
| Kelly Wisecup | Assistant professor, Northwestern University; Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 2009-15 |
Recent MA Placements
| Graduation Year |
Name |
Program or Job Placement |
| 2020 | Brandy Williams | English PhD program at the University of Chicago to specialize in Early Modern Studies and Critical Race Studies |
| 2020 | Mal Haselberger | Art History PhD program at University of Maryland |
| 2020 | Jack Pugh | English PhD program at Colorado University, Boulder |
| 2020 | Sade Tyndall | Teaching position in the Upper School Humanities Department at Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, MD |
| 2019 | Daniel Quimby | Teaching position with English Program in Korea (EPIK) |
| 2019 | Allison Gibeily | English PhD program at Northwestern University for 18th century studies and medical humanities |
| 2019 | Sarah Spech | LAK Public Relations in New York City |
| 2019 | D'Arcee Neal | English PhD student, Rhetoric and Composition with a concentration in Disability Studies at The Ohio State University |
| 2019 | Rakia Khalid | NYC Teaching Fellows program, an alternative teaching preparation program that places fellows in highest-need high schools in the greater NY area |
| 2018 | Joanna Falk | English PhD student, George Washington University |
| 2018 | Lt. Mary Senoyuit | Instructor at the United States Naval Academy |
| 2018 | Lissette Escariz | English PhD student, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2018 | LCDR Phil Garrow | Junior Permanent Military Professor at the United States Naval Academy |
| 2018 | Christopher Suarez | English PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2017 | Will Thompson | English PhD student, University of Chicago |
| 2017 | Jessica Harrington | Program Coordinator for Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES) at the University of Maryland |
| 2017 | Emily Smith | English PhD student, Pennsylvania State University |
| 2017 | Shaun Russell | English PhD student, Ohio State |
| 2017 | Tyler Talbott | English PhD student, Northwestern University |
| 2017 | Trent McDonald | English PhD student, Washington University, St. Louis |
| 2017 | Brooke Feichtl | Strategic Communications Officer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
| 2017 | Lt. Daniel Stepler | English Instructor, United States Coast Guard Academy |