Our PhD graduates have gone on to build successful careers, both inside and outside of academia. Below are PhD dissertation and placement records listed over the past five years.
PhD Dissertation and Placement Records
Tina Montenegro
Tenure-track Professor at Boston College
“Spatialisation du savoir et rhétorique: la division de la philosophie du trésor et deux moments de sa réception”
Emily Shuman
Assistant Professor of Francophone Culture at Radboud University, Netherlands
Embodied Aesthetics and Body Politics in French Rap
Emily O’Brock
Post-Doctoral Language Lecturer of French at NYU
‘If Small Things Can Be Compared to Great’:
The Symbolic Ecology of the Honeybee in Medieval France
Rachel Watson
Sarah Lawrence College
Visting Assistant Professor
The Spectacular Body in Recent French-language Theatre
Claire Reising
University of Notre Dame
Assistant Teaching Professor of French and Francophone Studies
A site of Experimentation: Diasporic Writing in Montreal (2020)
Rachel Watson
College Core Curriculum Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at NYU
The Spectacular Body in Recent French-language Theatre
Maria Beliaeva Solomon
University of Maryland, College Park
Tenure-track assistant professorship
Secondarité: le romantisme frénétique en France (2019)
Nicolas Estournel
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French at NYU
Figures de la surface chez Stéphane Mallarmé et Jean-Luc Godard (2020)
Claire Reising
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French at NYU
A site of Experimentation: Diasporic Writing in Montreal (2020)
Mimi Zhou
Copywriter, Self-Employed (https://mimizhou.com)
Beginning to Read Chrétien de Troyes (2020)
Elena Aleksandrova
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French, New York University
Dissertation Title: Writing Immensity: Imaginative Journeys Across Russia in French Literature of the 19th Century
Director: Prof. Claudie Bernard
Maria Beliaeva Solomon
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French, New York University
Dissertation Title: Grimaces et Convulsions: le Romantisme aux lendemains de Juillet 1830
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Christopher Bonner
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Texas A&M University
Dissertation Title: The Alignment of Writing: Cold War Geopolitics and Literary Form in French Caribbean Literature
Director: Prof. Michael Dash
Ana Cristina Celestino Montenegro
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French, New York University
Dissertation Title: La réorganisation des sciences dans la division de la philosophie du Tresor : de la rhétorique à la théologie à travers les Leys d'Amors et le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune
Director: Prof. Sarah Kay
Janos Kun
Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French, New York University
Dissertation Title: Psychiatry, the Project of the Physician-Philosopher: From the Idéologues to the Treatment of Madness
Director: Prof. Lucien Nouis
Kaliane Ung
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: Écritures Blessées: Joë Bousquet, Violette Leduc, Hervé Guibert, Simone Weil
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Pierre André
Adjunct Professor, NYU Paris
Dissertation Title: Le Nationalisme à l'épreuve de l'Orient. Récits de voyage français au XIXe siècle
Director: Prof. Lucien Nouis
Daniel Benson
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), St. Francis College in Brooklyn
Dissertation Title: Resonances of Revolution: The Social Question between Literature and Journalism 1830-1848
Director: Prof. Kristin Ross
Joseph Johnson
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Georgetown University
Dissertation Title: Animal Speech and Human Handwriting in the Ysopet of Marie and the Roman de Renart
Director: Prof. Sarah Kay
Aubrey Korneta
Transfer Class Adviser and Associate Faculty, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study,NYU
Dissertation Title: Writing (in) the School: Codes. Constraints. Emancipation?
Director: Prof. Claudie Bernard
Downing Bray Kress
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, NYU College Core Curriculum
Dissertation Title: Cartographies of the Imagination: Dany Laferrière’s Poetics of Dwelling
Director: Prof. Michael Dash
Emily Kate Price
Fellowship and Teaching Appointment (5-year renewable), Robinson College, Cambridge
Dissertation Title: Fortune and Misfortune in Medieval Song
Director: Prof. Sarah Kay
Andrew Dubrov
Conversational Design Product Management Lead, Verizon
Dissertation Title: Rational Enchantment: On the Travel Writings of Cendrars, Leiris and Michaux
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Erika Hendrix
Acquisitions Editor, Peter Lang Publishers
Dissertation Title: Representing Colette, Performing Gender: Colette and Jacqueline Audry
Director: Prof. Ludovic Cortade
Anna Miller
French teacher, Tower Hill School, Private College Preparatory School
Dissertation Title: Craving Connection in the Urban Wasteland: The Enigmatic Real and the Deal in the Theatre of Bernard-Marie Koltès
Directors: Prof. Tom Bishop & Prof. Judith Miller
Susan Cater
Founder & CEO, GroWrite Creative
Dissertation Title: Relating the Real: Édouard Glissant's Avant-Garde Poetics
Director: Prof. Michael Dash
Manoah Finston
Assistant Registrar (Office of the University Registrar), Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Vital Materialism: Encountering the Object in the Novels of Honoré de Balzac
Director: Prof. Emily Apter
Michelle Lanchart
Chief of Staff, PCI Media
Dissertation Title: The Re-emergence of the Fantastic in French Novels after 1990
Director: Prof. Eugène Nicole
Virginie Lauret
Freelance writer, The Daily Beast
Dissertation Title: Jacques Rivette et le Romantisme Noir : Doubles Fonds
Director: Prof. Emily Apter
Laura Hughes
Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University
Dissertation Title: “For Life”: Cixous’s and Derrida’s Shared Archives
Director: Prof. Emily Apter
Julie Hugonny
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Le Dernier Homme: Littérature d’anticipation apocalyptique du début du XIXème siècle à la Première Guerre Mondiale
Director: Prof. Richard Sieburth
Joshua Jordan
Lecturer of French, Fordham University
Dissertation Title: Henri Michaux and the Potential of Politics
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Youna Kwak
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pomona College
Dissertation Title: The Intimacy Effect: Life After the Death of Roland Barthes
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Myron McShane
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at John Carter Brown Library
Dissertation Title: Jean Dorat’s Prophetic Practices: Poetry, Philology and Interpretation
Director: Prof. Benoît Bolduc
Julie Sage
Lecturer, Sciences Po (Paris)
Dissertation Title: Vies horizontales: Figures de l'homme chez André Gide, Paul Valéry et Henri Michaux
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Maximillian Shrem
French teacher, Chadwick School
Dissertation Title: Cuisine and the French Social Imaginary: Tracing the Origins of Gastronomic Discourse in Early 19th-Century France
Director: Prof. Anne Deneys-Tunney
Raphael Sigal
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Amherst College
Dissertation Title: Antonin Artaud: le sens de la lecture
Director: Prof. Denis Hollier
Between 2000 and 2015, our graduate students accepted positions at such institutions as:
Allegheny College
Arizona State University
University of the Bahamas
Barnard College
Baylor University
Bennington College
Bucknell College
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Colorado - Boulder
Columbia University
Drew University
Eastern University
Emmanuel College
University of Florida
Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall College
George Washington University
Goucher College
College of the Holy Cross
University of California - Irvine
Long Island University
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Montclair State University
New York University
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Rhodes College
Saint Mary's College
Southern Methodist University
University of Southern Indiana
SUNY Stonybrook
University of Texas - Austin
Texas A&M University
Transylvania University
Tulane University
Virginia Tech
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Wayne State University
Wagner College
Wellesley College
Williams College
Yale University
Arizona State University
University of the Bahamas
Barnard College
Baylor University
Bennington College
Bucknell College
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Colorado - Boulder
Columbia University
Drew University
Eastern University
Emmanuel College
University of Florida
Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall College
George Washington University
Goucher College
College of the Holy Cross
University of California - Irvine
Long Island University
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Montclair State University
New York University
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Rhodes College
Saint Mary's College
Southern Methodist University
University of Southern Indiana
SUNY Stonybrook
University of Texas - Austin
Texas A&M University
Transylvania University
Tulane University
Virginia Tech
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Wayne State University
Wagner College
Wellesley College
Williams College
Yale University
Students nearing completion of their dissertation are invited to participate in a series of job market workshops, where they work with faculty members to prepare their CV, teaching philosophies, and cover letters, and participate in mock interviews to prepare for job interviews.