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Graduate Alumni

Below is a partial list of some of OSU English’s recent doctoral and master’s student placements. Our graduates have gone on to take academic and professional positions across the globe, and we celebrate them.

Recent Ph.D. Alumni

2023

Rebecca Brings (Ph.D. in Literature)

Dissertation Title: Caring for Postcolonial Animals

Grant Currier (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: We Will Not Grieve

Fulbright Instructor, American Literature and Culture, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Sara Gilbert (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: 64 Baggot Street: A Novel

Communications Manager, Fr0ntierX

Remi Recchia (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: Addiction Apocalypse

Technical Editor, Fire Protection Publications

Amy Takebe (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)

Dissertation Title: Japanese Disaster Warning: Honorifics, Multimodality, Identity and Ideology

Associate Professor, Center for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan

2022

Alysse Gopalakrishnan (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: FishWife

Associate Professor, Department of English, Colorado Mountain College

Svetlana Koltovskaia (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)

Dissertation Title: Automated writing evaluation for formative second language assessment: Exploring performance, teacher use, and student engagement

Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, Northeastern State University

Courtney Lund O’Neil (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: Blooming: A Memoir

Lecturer, Analytical Writing Program, University of California-San Diego

Chrissy Martin (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: Redshift: Poems

Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry, Department of English, Centenary College of Louisana

Clare Paniccia (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: Attachment Theories

Marketing Specialist, Wolf Tooth Components

Robert Redmon (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)

Dissertation Title: On the Development of a Twig: a Suite of Tools for the Analysis of Discourse on Twitter

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Rachele Salvini (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Told By All My Exes

Emerging Writer Lecturer in Creative Writing, Department of English, Gettysburg College

Gretchen VanWormer (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: Wormery: Essays

Lecturer in Creative Writing, Department of English, University of Vermont

Lisa Wright (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: The Ring of Fire: A Memoir

Lecturer, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, University Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University

Jared Young (Ph.D. in Literature)

Dissertation Title: Narrative Triage: Veterans, Disability, Race and the Popular Fiction of the Cold War

Assistant Professor, Department of English, SUNY-Orange

2021

John Andrews (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)
Dissertation Title: Colin is Changing His Name: A Collection of Poems with a Critical Introduction
Academic Counselor, Honors College, Oklahoma State University

Jeaneen Canfield (Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Dissertation Title: (Re)Imaging Mapping Technology in Writing Pedagogy
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Central Oklahoma

Clayton Dillard (Ph.D. in Screen Studies)
Dissertation Title: Space, Representation and Realism in Contemporary European Art Cinema
Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas-Dallas

Alex Hughes (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)
Dissertation Title: Dutzow: Stories
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Sarah Lonelodge (Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Dissertation Title: “Rattle Their Doorknob and They Collapse”: Propaganda Strategies of the Church of Scientology
Assistant Professor, Eastern New Mexico University

Micol Martinelli (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: Illuminating Collaborative Talk in Healthcare Interactions with People with Aphasia: Three Linguistic Approaches
Lecturer, Department of English, Midwestern State University

2020

Nawal Ali Alzahrani (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)

Dissertation Title: A Comparative Study of Oral Proficiency in Direct (OPI) and Semi-direct (VOCI) Testing Modes: Measures of Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency

Deputy Director, English Language Center, Umm Al-Qura University

Tomie Bitton (Ph.D. in Creative Writing)

Dissertation Title: The Book of Tomie

Instructor, Pikes Peak Community College

Harbhajan Hira (Ph.D. in Literature)
Dissertation Title: Identity and Home in Three Caribbean Authors
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Ho’omana Nathan Horton (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: An Ethnolexicography of the Skateboarding Subculture
Visiting Assistant Professor and International Teaching Assistant Program Coordinator, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Thamer Kalfut (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: The Centrality of Writing Materials in Saudi Arabian English Classrooms: Evaluating L2 Textbooks from an Ecological Perspective
Assistant Professor, King Saud University

Bryce McCleary (Ph.D. in TESOL/Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: Oklahoma Drag and Queer Linguistics
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Rice University

Eric Riddle (Ph.D. in Literature)
Dissertation Title: Embodied Monsters: From Fear to Domestication in Gothic Monster Literature
Professor, Department of Language Arts, Northern Oklahoma College

2019

Jacqueline Alnes (PhD in Creative Writing)
Dissertation Title: “Well Developed Female in No Acute Distress”
Assistant Professor, Department of English, West Chester University

Hillary Coenen (PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Dissertation title: “Collaborating Accountably: Interpersonal Antiracism Activism as a Site for Feminist Invitational Rhetoric and Writing Center Pedagogy”
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Humanities & Philosophy, Midwestern State University

Andrew Davis (PhD in Screen Studies)
Dissertation title: “Selling Queer Cinema: The Emergence and Decline of New Queer Cinema and its Impact on American and Transnational LGBTQ Cinemas (1990-2010)”
Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Arts and Humanities, Seminole State College

Jacob Eutenuer (PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Dissertation title: “The Ludic Garden: The Work of Play in Composition and Rhetoric”
Assistant Professor, Rhetoric Program, Hampden-Sydney College

Katherine Markey (PhD in Creative Writing)
Dissertation title: “How Hungry the Earth: Poems”
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Josiah Meints (PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Dissertation title: “The Rhetorical Playbook: Football, Race, Rhetoric and Play Possibility Spaces of the American University”
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Olga Muranova (PhD in TESOL/Linguistics)
Dissertation title: “Theory-constitutive Metaphors, Similes, and Scientists’ Narratives about Their Travel/Research Experience in Popular Science Articles/Examining Linguistic and Rhetorical Features”
Lecturer, Program in Academic English, University of California-Irvine

2018

Michael McCombs (PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Dissertation title: “Industrial Energy Audit Reports: A Heuristic for Improved Efficacy”
Assistant Director, Industrial Assessment Center, Oklahoma State University

Yelin Zhao (PhD in TESOL/Linguistics)
Dissertation title: “Both Sides of the Interaction: Native Speaker and Nonnative Speaker Tutors Serving Nonnative Speaker Students in a University Writing Center”
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware

Recent MA/MFA Alumni

2022

Chris Baker (MFA in Creative Writing)

Thesis Title: Until Valhalla

Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Saga Savage (MFA in Creative Writing)

Thesis Title: Reliquary of the Rabbit-Hearted

Title Examiner, Western Land Services

2021

Andy Bodinger (MFA in Creative Writing)

Thesis Title: More Like Admiration and Other Stories

Ph.D. Student, Ohio State University

Anthony Freeman (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis Title: Death Says Hello
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Lyndsey Key (MA in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)
Thesis Title: Works in Progress: Establishing Best Practices for Graduate Pedagogy
Ph.D. Student, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Ashlee Pilcher (MA in Rhetoric and Writing Studies)

Thesis Title: Starting the Studio: Creating and Operating a Multimodal Tutoring Center

Ph.D. Student, Texas Christian University

2020

Shima Dokhtzeynal (MA in TESOL/Linguistics)

Thesis Title: Second Generation Persians’ Participation in the Oklahoma Dialect

Ph.D. Student, Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies, University of Kentucky

Jennifer Hudgens (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis Title: How We Met With Our Ghosts
Ph.D. Student, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Kaila Lancaster (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis Title: For Your Safety and Other Stories
Ph.D. Student, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Wyeth Leslie (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis Title: This Machine Keeps the Ghost
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Tulsa Community College

Jenna Neece (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis Title: Raise a Glass to My Body
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Jonathan Drake Swails (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis Title: Clouds of Dirt and Glass
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oklahoma State University/Northern Oklahoma College

Masoud Sheikhbahaie (MA in TESOL/Linguistics)
Thesis Title: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Farsi Vowel Systems Among Heritage Speakers and Immigrants of Persian Ethnicity in Oklahoma
Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics, North Carolina State University

2019

Lyn Broyles (MA in Screen Studies)
Thesis title: “Female Authorship in the Slumber Party Massacre Trilogy”
Graduate Admissions Counselor, American International College

Eunhye Hess (MA in TESOL/Linguistics)
Thesis title: “Intercultural Communicative Competence in an IEP Listening and Speaking Course: A Needs Analysis”
PhD Student, Department of English, Oklahoma State University

Courtney Whited (MA in Literature)
Thesis title: “My Body is Not Something You Can Land On: Indigenous Feminisms in Erika T. Worth’s Prose”
Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota

2018

Liz Deegan (MA in Screen Studies)
Thesis title: “Disgustingly Queer: George Kuchar’s Video Diaries”
PhD Student, Department of English, Michigan State University

Tyler George (MA in Screen Studies)
Thesis title: “Literature Review: Stan Brakhage and the Institutions of the Avant-Garde”
Student Advisor, Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University

Vincent Landino (MA in Screen Studies)
Thesis title: “‘A Never-Ending Crescendo of Flair and Spectacle’: The Industrial Conditions Behind Post-Continuity Hollywood”
Content Editor, ConsumerAffairs.com

Isabelle Sackett (MA in Literature)
Thesis title: “The Narrative of Salvation: Reading Four William Holman Hunt Paintings as One Complete Story of Grace”
Undergraduate Admissions Counselor, Oklahoma State University

Emilie Tallent (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis title: “Octopus Rice: Stories”
Proposal Development Specialist, Department of Engineering Research, Oklahoma State University

Natasha Tinsley (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis title: “Limbs of a Starfish”
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Ian C. Williams (MFA in Creative Writing)
Thesis title: “I-80 Elegies”
English/Language Arts Teacher, Stillwater High School, Stillwater OK