Katarzyna (Kasia) Bartoszynska
DISSERTATION: "Distant Realities: Fictionality in Polish and Irish Literature" (2011)
POSITION: Visiting Assistant Professor at Bilkent University in the Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas

Dongfeng Xu
DISSERTATION: "The Concept of Friendship and the Culture of Hospitality: The Encounter Between the Jesuits and Late Ming China" (2011)
POSITION: Instructor, Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures,Emory University

Jonathan Ullyot
DISSERTATION: "The Quest to Fail: Kafka, Céline, Beckett." (2010)
POSITION: Full-Time Instructor in the Humanities Core, University of Chicago Humanities Core
PUBLICATIONS: “Molloy or Le Conte du Graal,” Modern Philology, 108.4 (May 2011);“Kafka’s Grail Castle,” German Quarterly, 83.4 (November 2010); “Adorno’s Comment c’est,” Comparative Literature, 61.4 (Fall 2009)

Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
DISSERTATION: "Illiberal Arts: Orientalism and the Juridical Imaginary of Romanticism" (Summer 2010)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
PUBLICATIONS: “On Octopussies, or the Anatomy of Female Power,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 23:1 (Spring 2012); “Becoming Corsairs: Byron, British Property Rights and Orientalist Economics,” Studies in Romanticism 50:4 (Winter 2011).

Lauren J. Silvers
DISSERTATION: "Psychological Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Reading in the Symbolist Literary Era (1880-1905)" (Spring 2010)
POSITION: Assistant Professor in the Humanities, Harper Post-Doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, 2010-2014 at the University of Chicago

Valerie Levan
DISSERTATION: Forbidden Enlightenment: Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu (1896-1945) (2010)
POSITION: Instructor in the College, University of Chicago Humanities Core

Rebecca Handler-Spitz
DISSERTATION: "Diversity, Deception, and Discernment in the Late Sixteenth Century: A Comparative Study of Li Zhi’s Book to Burn and Montaigne’s Essays" (2009)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of Chinese at Middlebury College

Jeffrey A. Rufo
DISSERTATION: “Channel Crossings: Representing French Politics in the Historical Drama of England, 1587–1610” (2009)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University, Texas

Wing Sze Leung
DISSERTATION: "Aesthetic Feeling, Moral Judgement and Poetic Language: Kant's and Wordsworth's Responses to Rousseau" (2008)
POSITION: Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at Fordham University

Andrea Scott
DISSERTATION: "Lyric Diplomacy: Cold War Poetics in the United States and West Germany, 1945-1955" (2008)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of Academic Writing and Director of the Writing Center, Pitzer College

Karen A. Pagani
DISSERTATION: "Forgiveness in the Age of Reason: Fénelon, Voltaire, Rousseau and Staël" (2008)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of French Literature in the Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin