Alumni
Spotlight
Alex Moskowitz (Ph.D. '21, M.A. '14) is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of English at Mount Holyoke College. During his doctoral studies at Boston College, he specialized in American and African American literature through the nineteenth century, Marxism, capitalism, and aesthetics. His book project, American Imperception: Literary Form, Sensory Perception, and Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, explores how sensory perception has been historically determined by economics.
Katie Van Zanen (M.A. '17) became fascinated by the creation and circulation of texts in her first semester at BC. "Introduction to Advanced Research" raised questions about the ways in which material conditions and rhetorical situation affect a text's meaning. In Tina Klein and Carlo Rotella's American Studies courses, Katie explored how those conditions reflected and reproduced ideas about what it means to be American. As a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education, she'll consider how the writing classroom inscribes those ideas– and how it can better equip students to be engaged citizens in their communities.
Hannah Griggs' (M.A. ’16) digital humanities project, "New Orleans Prohibition Raids, 1919-1933” has been accepted into the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans. This interactive exhibit maps all the individual homes and businesses that were shut down or otherwise affected by federal agents during Prohibition. The project began as a research paper in Prof. Tina Klein’s “Issues and Methods in American Studies” seminar and was developed into a DH project in Paul Vierthaler’s seminar “Hacking the Humanities”. Explore the project further at Intemperance.org, where Griggs archives cocktail culture in New Orleans. Follow Griggs on Twitter for updates on the project.
Kathleen Lyons '18 is a PhD student at the University of Delaware
Margaret Ascenzo '17 is a PhD student at the University of Connecticut
James Boyman '17 is a producer at 2U
Charles Clements '17 is a PhD student at Tufts University
Kelly Duquette '17 is a PhD student at Emory University
Kate Jorgensen '17 is a PhD student at the University of New Hampshire
Arin Lustberg '17 is a patron service coordinator at the Boston Athenaeum
William Olena '17 is a field engineer at Field Core
Erin Portman '17 is a tutor at Academic Approach
Stephanie Redekop '17 is a PhD student at the University of Toronto
Kristy Snow '17 is a high school English teacher in Providence, RI
Kevin Spinale '17 is a PhD student in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
Diana Sunder '17 is a working playwright in Brighton, MA
Jessica Swoboda '17 is a PhD student at the University of Virginia
Katie Van Zanen '17 is a PhD student at the University of Michigan
Kristy Snow '17 took a job at TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School in East Walpole, which is the only online public school in Massachusetts
Mollie Kervick ’16 is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Connecticut
Heejoo Park ’16 is a Ph.D. candidate at University of California Riverside
Vanessa Maramba ’16 is a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Albany
Sean Clifford ’15 is teaching at Newbury College in Brookline, MA
Sara Danver '15 teaches at Newbury College
Leah Duncan-Po '15 is in the Ph.D. program at Louisiana State University
Brendan Flanagan '15 teaches at Lacordaire Academy in New Jersey
Carl Nellis '15 is an associate editor at Hendrickson Publishers
Jocelyn Rice ’15 is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston College
Hannah Taylor ’15 has been accepted into the PhD program at the University of Connecticut
Chelsea Bray ’14 is a Ph.D. candidate at the Editorial Institute at Boston University
Megan LeBarron ’14 is a Ph.D. candidate in American and New England Studies at Boston University
Matt Knutson '14 is a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual Studies Program at the University of California-Irvine
Alexis Sullivan ’14 teaches at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA
David Charlesworth '13 teaches English at Wellesley High School
Ashley Conklin '13 is in the Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester
Megan Crotty '13 is in the Ph.D. program at Boston College
William Karvouniaris '13 teaches English at Wakefield High School
Eliscia Kinder ’13 has been accepted into Alabama's Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program
Noah Moskat '13 teaches English at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden
Christina Karas '12 is a researcher at the consulting firm Greenleaf Health
Meredith Kasabian '12 is an owner of Best Dressed Signs, an all-hand-painted sign company in Boston
Sean Case ’11 is a Ph.D. candidate in American and New England Studies at Boston University
Lucas Dietrich '10, received his Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 2015 and is an Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Lesley University
Lindsey Warren Dietrich '10 is Associate Manager of Direct Sales at Harvard Business Review Press
Dave Mitchell ’10 teaches teaches at Brookline High School
Katie Daily-Bruckner M.A. '09 Ph.D. '15 is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point