Karen Bishop successfully defended her dissertation in July 2008. As of Fall 2008, she is a Lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University.

Marco Codebo was awarded his PhD in Winter 2005 and is an Assistant Professor at Long Island University. He published a collection of short stories in Italy.

Amber Godey successfully defended her dissertation, “Words and Mirrors: Resistance and Participation through Personal Narrative in Fascist Italy,” and was awarded her PhD in Winter 2008.

Nathan Henne was awarded his PhD in June 2007 and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Cultures at Loyola University, New Orleans.

Aimee Kilbaine is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College.

Viola Kolarov was awarded her PhD in Spring 2006 and is now a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow 2006-2008 at Johns Hopkins University.

Paulo Moreira was awarded his PhD in September 2007 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale.

Randall Pogorzelski was awarded his PhD in Fall 2007 and has a Lecturer position in the Department of Classics at UC Irvine.

Mary Seliger was awarded her PhD in Spring 2008.  She was a summer Lecturer for the Comparative Literature Program in 2008, and will lecture in the Department of Asian American Studies in Winter 2009.

Elizabeth Swanstrom was awarded her PhD in Spring 2008 and is currently Florence Kay Fellow in the Digital Humanities at Brandeis University.

Stacey Van Dahm was awarded her PhD in Summer 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing at Philadelphia University.

Marta Wilkinson was awarded her PhD in Spring 2006 and is now working as Assistant Professor of English at Wilmington College.