Job Placement Record

We take very seriously our responsibility to prepare graduate students to find academic employment, such as teaching or fellowship positions.

For the purposes of documenting our doctoral Placement record, we only count first-time, tenure-track positions obtained within 3 years of completion. Some of our graduate students also find short term positions as Visiting Assistant Professors, and in one, two, and three-year postdoctoral fellowships. We provide extensive support for job seekers not only through colloquia on the profession and special committee supervision, but with step-by-step guidance through the placement process itself.

For information on M.F.A. graduates, please see the Cornell Writers page where more than two hundred Cornell novelists, short-story writers, poets, memoirists, and other creative writers are listed.

Over the last six years, 87 Ph.D. and Joint M.F.A./Ph.D. students entered the program. During that period, 45 of these graduates have found tenure track employment and 24 have found temporary positions as listed below.

Alumnus Job Placement Record 2004-2009
Alumnus	Degree	University
2009
Ogagaoghene Ifowodo	Ph.D.	Texas State University
Joshua Nelson	Ph.D.	University of Oklahoma
Belinda Rincon	Ph.D.	Willamette University
Krupa Shandilya	Ph.D.	Trinity University
Kim Zarins	Ph.D.	California State University
Susan Hall	Ph.D.	Cameron University in Oklahoma
Danielle Heard	Ph.D.	University of California, Davis
3 graduates obtained short-term academic employment.

2008
Caetlin Benson-Allot	Ph.D.	University of California, Santa Cruz
Misty Urban	Ph.D./M.F.A.	Lewis and Clark State College
Ariana Vigil	Ph.D.	University of Nebraska
Angela Naimou	Ph.D.	Clemson University
Janice Ho	Ph.D.	University of Colorado, Boulder
Karen Anderson	Ph.D.	St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Ramesh Mallipeddi	Ph.D.	Hunter College CUNY
Jonah Corne	Ph.D.	University of Manitoba
4 graduates obtained short-term academic employment.

2007
Pauls Toutonghi	M.F.A./Ph.D.	Lewis and Clark College
Andrea Rehn	Ph.D.	Whittier College
Danielle St. Hilaire	Ph.D.	Quinnipiac University
Ed Goode	Ph.D.	Villanova University
Wyatt Bonikowski	Ph.D.	Suffolk University
Nadine Attewell	Ph.D.	University of Nevada, Reno
Shirleen Robinson	Ph.D.	Gettysburg College
Joshua Corey	Ph.D.	Lake Forest College
Jade Ferguson	Ph.D.	University of Guelph
Hilary Emmett	Ph.D.	University of Queensland
8 graduates obtained short-term academic employment.

2006
Zubair Amir	Ph.D.	Benedictine University
Joseph Campana	Ph.D.	Rice University
Nick Davis	Ph.D.	Northwestern University
Will Hacker	Ph.D.	Winona State University
Paul Hecht	M.F.A./Ph.D.	Purdue University, North Central
Stephanie Li	M.F.A./Ph.D.	University of Rochester
Kim Snyder Manganelli	Ph.D.	Clemson University
David Rando	Ph.D.	Trinity University
Katherine Terrell	Ph.D.	Hamilton College
Sara-Patricia Wasson	Ph.D.	Napier University in Edinburgh
Mimi Yiu	Ph.D.	Georgetown University
6 graduates obtained short-term academic employment.

2005
Akinwumi Adesokani	Ph.D.	Indiana University
Dwight Codr	Ph.D.	Tulane University
Sarah Heidt	Ph.D.	Kenyon College
Daniel Kim	Ph.D.	University of Colorado, Boulder
Jordana Rosenberg	Ph.D.	University of Massachusettes, Amherst
Alice Somerville	Ph.D.	Victoria University of Wellington
2 graduates obtained short-term academic employment.

2004
Zahid Chaudhary	Ph.D.	University of Washington, Seattle
T. Roscoe Leasure	Ph.D.	Salisbury University
Dana Luciano	Ph.D.	Georgetown University
Sunjay Sharma	Ph.D.	K.M. College, Delhi University
Meg Wesling	Ph.D.	University of California, San Diego
7 graduates obtained short-term academic employment.