PLACEMENT RECORDIn the past 10 years, our specialists in American literature have secured tenure track positions at such institutions as Yale University, the University of Alabma in Birmingham, SUNY Albany, Franklin & Marshall, Pace University, Washington University in St. Louis, UNC Chapel Hill, and Boston University.

Other graduates of our program have accepted tenure track positions at numerous universities and colleges, including Sewanee, Wheaton College in Massachusetts, Temple, the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of Arkansas, the University of Pittsburgh, and Cornell University

Our students have also been awarded post-doctoral positions with Emory University, the Michigan Society of Fellows, the University of Pennsylvania, the Public Theater in New York, Oxford University, the Stanford University Humanities Center, and UCLA.

Northwestern UniversityDepartment of English

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Evanston, IL 60208-2240

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John Alba Cutler (Ph.D. UCLA) teaches and researches US Latino/a literatures, multiethnic American poetry, contemporary American literature, and print culture studies. He is the author of Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (Oxford, 2015), as well as essays in American Literary History, American Literature, MELUS, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Nick Davis (Ph.D. Cornell) works in cinema studies, queer theory, gender studies, and 20th-century American literature. His book The Desiring-Image (Oxford UP, 2013) employs Deleuzian models of fi lm and desire to re-theorize contemporary queer cinema and reassess some of its key fi lms. He has published many articles and book chapters and also reviews movies at www.NicksFlickPicks.com.

Betsy Erkkilä (Ph.D., Berkeley) specializes in Revolutionary and 19th-century American literature and modern and contemporary poetry & poetics, with a particular interest in gender, race, and political theory and transatlantic literary exchange. She is the author of Walt Whitman Among the French, Whitman the Political Poet, The Wicked Sisters, Mixed Bloods and Other American Crosses, and recent essays on Wheatley, Jeff erson, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, and Lincoln. Her current projects include a book entitled Imagining the Revolution. She received Northwestern’s Graduate School Faculty Award for Service in 2014 for her distinguished work as a graduate teacher and mentor.

Harris Feinsod (Ph.D. Stanford) teaches 20th- and 21st-century U.S. and Latin American literature and culture. He is the author of The Poetry of the Americas from Good Neighbors to Countercultures (Oxford, 2017), and the co-translator of Decals: The Complete Early Poems of Oliverio Girondo (Open Letter, 2018). His research focuses on modern poetry and the avant-garde in Europe and the Americas, hemispheric cultural relations, environmental and multi-ethnic literatures of the U.S., and oceanic studies. Recent writing appears or is forthcoming in American Literary History, Centro, Iowa Review, Modernism/modernity, n+1, and the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition, for which he served as assistant editor.

Susannah Gottlieb (Ph.D. Chicago) works in the areas of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, continental philosophy and political theory, and Asian American literary traditions. She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden and the editor of Hannah Arendt: Refl ections on Literature and Culture. She regularly teaches courses on poetry, poetics, and literary theory. Her current projects include a book-length study entitled “The Importance of Metaphysics: The Intellectual Heresies of W.H. Auden.”

Jay Grossman (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) specializes in 18th- and 19th-century American literature and culture, history

of the book, and history of sexuality. He has published Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation; co-edited Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies; and is currently working on “F.O. Matthiessen: A Cultural Biography.”

Juan Martinez (Ph.D. UNLV) is a fi ction writer, with critical work focusing on the post-war and contemporary novelists, the sociology of literature, and Vladimir Nab okov’s role in the fi eld of contemporary cultural production.

Michelle Huang (Ph.D. Penn State) has research and teaching interests in contemporary Asian American literature, posthumanism, and feminist science studies. Her current project, “Molecular Aesthetics: Race, Form, and Matter in Contemporary Asian American Literature,” examines posthumanist aesthetics in post-1965 Asian American literature to trace racial formation at the molecular scale, arguing that a rapprochement with scientifi c discourse is necessary to fully grasp how the formal and aesthetic qualities of Asian American literature unsettle sedimented structures of racial formation.

Julia Stern (Ph.D. Columbia) teaches 18th-, 19th- and early 20th-century American and African American literature, with an emphasis on women writers and the novels of Faulkner. She has published The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel and Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic. Her current work is titled “My Black Bette Davis: Reading Race at Warner Brothers, 1934-1962.”

Ivy Wilson (Ph.D. Yale) teaches courses on the comparative literatures of the black diaspora and U.S. literary studies with a particular emphasis on African American culture. He has written Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.

Kelly Wisecup (Ph.D. University of Maryland - College Park) specializes in Native American literatures, early American literature and culture, and medicine and literature in the Atlantic world. She is the author of Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013) and of “Good News from New England” by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014). Her articles have appeared in Early American Literature, Early American Studies, Atlantic Studies, Studies in Travel Writing, Literature and Medicine, The Southern Literary Journal and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal.

With eleven ssppecialists in American literature annd culture, theEnglish Depaartment at Northwestern off ers supeerb graduate training in ddiverse periods, genres, and approaches. Drawing onresources iinside and outside the department, graduatete studentshave amaassed a spectacular record of publications, felellowshipsand tenuure-line positions in the fi eld.

Core faaculty include John Alba Cutler, Nick Davis, Betsy EErkkilä, Harriss Feinsod, Susannah Gottlieb, Jay Grossman, Miichec lle Huangng, Juan Martinez, Julia Stern, Ivy Wilson, and Kelly Wiseecup.

Conccentrations are possible in gender theory, critical racr e theoory, political theory, ethnic literatures, New Woorld Stuudies, and American literatures in a trans-national contexxt.

Additional faculty on campus augment training in:

• African American Studies (Alex Weheliye)• African Studies (Evan Mwangi)• American Studies (Janice Radway)• Art History (Huey Copelelanda )• Caribbean and Latitin AAmerican Studies (Francees

Aparicio, Jorge Coronaado, DDoris Garraway)• Film and Media Studiies (Lyynn Spigel)• History (Caitlin Fitz, KKatee Masur)• Latina/o Studies (Frances Aparicio)• Native American & Indigenous Studies (Doug Kiel, Johhn

David Marquez)• Political Theory (Lars Tonder)• Theatre & Performance Studies (E. Patrick Johnsoon,

Sandra Richards, Ramón Rivera-Servera, Harvey Youngg)

Thee American Cultures Colloquium hosts talks by Americannists fromm a range of disciplines. Speakers also come to cammpussponnsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and oother depaartments and programs.

The CChicago History Museum and the Newberry Library prprovidespecializl ed archives and seminars, including the Newwberry’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Inddigenous Studies, thet Center for American History and Culture, aand their Seminar oon Borderlands and Latino Studies.

Chicago alsoso boasts a lively theatre and music sceene, and an array of wororld-class museums. The Chicago FFilm Seminar regularly hoststs screenings and discussions wiwitth fi lmmakersand scholars; thehe annual Humanities Festivalal and the Poetry Foundation sponsorr readings and more.