continued from previous pageRecent Dissertations and Job Placements
The Composition Program has an excellent record of job placement during the past 15 years, despite a difficult market. During that time, 28 of 31 graduates with an emphasis in composition found tenure-track employment. Listed below is a sample of recent dissertation topics and job placements:
| 2002 | Patricia Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Shippensburg University Avant-Garde Composition: Pedagogies of Experimental Writing |
| 2001 | Christine Abbot, Assistant Professor, La Roche College Heresies, Dreams, and Emotions Reclaimed: Feminist Refigurings of Composition’s Outposts |
| 2000 | Julia Sawyer, Educational Consultant, Pittsburgh Telling Time: Temporality and the Educational Enterprise |
| 1999 | Linda Huff , Assistant Professor, West Chester University Mapping Voices: Reading the Textual Discourses of Emerging Black Public Intellectual Women |
| 1998 | Gwen Gorzelsky, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University Echoes Half-Heard: Community Activists, Collective Moments |
| 1997 | Bianca Falbo, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College Authorship and the Circulation of Literate Practices in the Anglo-American Field of Cultural Production |
| 1996 | Jeff Galin, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University Sixty Years of Multicultural Education Unmasked: A Study of Discursive Strategies & Institutional Practices |
| 1996 | Linda Jordan, Associate Professor, La Roche College Learning to Read in the Real Sense: Stories of Reading and American Schooling |
| 1996 | Stephen Sutherland, Lecturer, Harvard University In-Citing Change: The Pedagogical Politics of Revision and Citation |
| 1995 | Stephen Parks, Associate Professor, Temple University A History of “The Students’ Right to Their Own Language” Resolution |
| 1995 | Matthew Willen, Assistant Professor, Elizabethtown College Composing Mountaineering: The Personal Narrative and the Production of Knowledge in the Alpine Club of London and the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1858-1900 |
(Other graduates of Pitt include Richard Miller, Chair of English of Rutgers University, and Min-zhan Lu and Bruce Horner of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.)