Graduate

Summer 2022

Sage Hagerty, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "Race, Revenge, and the Law in Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi" and "Gender and Narrative Instability in Joyce’s “Nausicaa”"
Committee: Susan Mooney (Chair), Timothy Turner

Stephanie Harper, PhD English Literature

Dissertation: Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women's Writing
Committee: Marty Gould (Chair), Regina Hewitt, Emily Jones, Susan Mooney, Brook Sadler

Fall 2022

Michelle Dam, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "Revisioning Menstruation in Robin McKinley's Deerskin" and "Othello #sayhisname"
Committee: John Lennon (Chair), Timothy Turner

Spring 2023

Sarah Akomoh, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "Redefining Black Authenticity and Citizenship in Frances Harper’s Minnie’s Sacrifice" and "Hunger For a Permanent Place: Identity, Voice, and Community in Black Feminism"
Committee: Gary Lemons (Chair), Kristin Allukian

Rebecca Arrowsmith, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: The Pelvic Floor: Memoir of a Body
Committee: Julia Koets (Chair), Gurleen Grewal, Jarod Roselló

Mara Beneway, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: DAUGHTERS OF LILITH
Committee: Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Chair), Jarod Roselló, Julia Koets

Justiss Burry, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Ángel Maldonado, J. Blake Scott, Jeffrey Bennett

Jackie Carlson, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "A Brilliant Spectacle: Journalist Eliza Potter in Saratoga Springs" and "Margaret Cavendish and Björk: Transversal Studies Before and After the Apocalypse"
Committee: Kristin Allukian (Chair), Meredith Johnson

Samantha Chianese, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: Your Diaphragm a Doghouse
Committee: Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Chair), Julia Koets, Heather Sellers

Mimi Coto, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "Placing Herself at Center: Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life (1859) and the Value of Self" and "Deconstructing and Redefining Black Womxnhood: Britain, Blackness and Gender Diversity in “Burgerz” and Girl, Woman, Other"
Committee: Kristin Allukian (Chair), Susan Mooney

Jessica Griffith, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: A Field Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Liane Robertson, Joanna Schreiber, Kristen Gay

Nikki Lyssy, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: The Chances We Take: A Novel
Committee: Jarod Rosello (Chair), Jacob Wolff, John Fleming

Karla Maddox, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), S. Morgan Gresham, Diane Price-Herndl, Carl Herndl

Jameson Reno, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: Laguna Seca
Committee: Jarod Roselló (Chair), John Fleming, Jacob Wolff

Fatemah Sadeq, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "Milton as an Eastern Revolutionary" and "The Illusion of an Idealistic Britain"
Committee: Susan Mooney (Chair), Emily Jones

Jordan Schultz, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: The Foodie Diaries
Committee: Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Chair), Julia Koets, Jarod Roselló

Katie Zepf, MA English Literature

Portfolio: "Pricked on by Pride: White Masculine Fragility in Shakespeare's Hamlet" and "Paradise Willingly Lost: The Spirit of Lilith, Who Was Also Eve, in John Milton's Paradise Lost and C.L. Moore's Fruit of Knowledge"
Committee: Emily Jones (Chair), Timothy Turner

Summer 2021

Carolyn Gubala, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: “A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication”
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Norbert Elliot, Kristen Gay, Glen McClish

Fall 2021

Kara Larson, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: “Labor-Based Contract Grading in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables”
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Norbert Elliot, Carl Herndl, Jessica Nastal

Maggie Romigh, PhD English Literature

Dissertation: “Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019”
Committee: Gary Lemons (Chair), Quynh Nhu Le, Cynthia Patterson, Cheryl Rodriguez

Spring 2022

Sariah Amin, MA English Literature

Portfolio: “Readers Watch in Horror: Why Harriet Wilson Portrays Mrs. Bellmont Rejecting the Cult of True Womanhood” and “"Just Say It Now": How Julie Dash's Characters Use Voice to Overcome the Legacy of White Supremacy in Ibo Landing”
Committee: Kristin Allukian (Chair), Quynh Nhu Le

Krysta Banke, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: “Honors Writing Supports: An Applied Program Evaluation Study”
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Jennifer Bleck, S. Morgan Gresham, Holly Donahue Singh

Taylor Demichael, MA English Literature

Portfolio: “Portianomics: Queen of the Caskets” and “The War of the Severed Head”
Committee: Emily Jones (Chair), John Lennon

Teddy Duncan, MA English Literature

Portfolio: “Recognizing Exploitation and Rejecting Analogy: An Analysis of the Meat-Commodity” and “The Inexplicable Real and Silent (Female) Desire: A Lacanian Approach to the Unsaid in The Awakening”
Committee: John Lennon (Chair), Phillip Sipiora

Madison Frazier, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: Body Unblessed
Committee: Heather Sellers (Chair), Julie Koets, Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Jesse Gilleland, MA English Literature

Portfolio: “Seeing Kes: Unintelligibility and the Queer Narrative in Stacey Gregg’s Scorch” and “Maternal Transactions: Capitalism and 19th Century Motherhood in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig”
Committee: Susan Mooney (Chair), Kristin Allukian

Gabrielle Grilli, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: Cardinals & Ghosts
Committee: Jay Hopler (Chair), Natalie Scenters-Zapico, William Logan

Sarah Harder, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: In Case the Body is Mine
Committee: Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Chair), Jay Hopler, Julia Koets

Shelby Hennessy, MA English Literature

Portfolio: “How She Heals: Looking at Rape and Motherhood Through Contemporary Literature and Film” and “Black Motherhood as an Intersection: Harriet Jacobs’ Slave Narrative under a Theoretical Lens”
Committee: Quynh Nhu Le (Chair), John Lennon

Adam Phillips, PhD English Rhetoric & Composition

Dissertation: “Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres”
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Norbert Elliot, Liane Robertson, Kristen Gay

Megan Stowe, PhD English Literature

Dissertation: “Anthropocene Fiction: Empathy, Kinship, and the Troubled Waters at the End of the World”
Committee: Ylce Irizarry (Co-Chair), Gurleen Grewal (Co-Chair), Quynh Nhu Le, Ulluminair Salim, John Lennon

Callie Treadway, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: Outside Cicadaville
Committee: Heather Sellers (Chair), Julia Koets, Karen Brown

Jade Weiss, MA English Rhetoric & Composition

Thesis: “PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace”
Committee: Lisa Melonçon (Chair), Carl Herndl, Liane Robertson

Tyra White, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: The Grass is Greener Over Here
Committee: Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Chair), Julia Koets, Jay Hopler

Mckenzie Zalopany, MFA Creative Writing

Thesis: Slutty Cool Mom
Committee: Jarod Roselló (Chair), John Fleming, Julia Koets

Creative writing

• Samantha Chianese, MFA, spring 2023
• Mara Beneway, MFA, spring 2023
• Haley Morton, MFA, spring 2021
• Courtney Clute, MFA, spring 2020
• Patrick Templeton, MFA, spring 2020
• Adam Carter, MFA, spring 2019
• Erika Staiger, MFA, spring 2019
• Allyson Hoffman, MFA, spring 2018
• Georgia Jackson, MFA, spring 2018
• Alysia Sawchyn, MFA, spring 2018

Literature

• Katie Zepf, MA, spring 2023
• Jackie Carlson, MA, spring 2023
• Teddy Duncan, MA, spring 2022
• Taylor DeMichael, MA, spring 2022
• Meghan Hutton, MA, spring 2020
• Stephanie Lance, PhD, fall 2019
• Elan Pavlinich, PhD, summer 2019
• Susan Meeler, MA, spring 2019
• Heather Fox, PhD, fall 2017
• Seth Spencer, MA, spring 2017
• Christina Connor, MA, spring 2016

Rhetoric & composition

• Justiss Burry, PhD, spring 2023
• Jessica Griffith, PhD, spring 2023
• Adam Phillips, PhD, spring 2022
• Katie Walkup, PhD, spring 2021
• Stephanie Phillips, PhD, fall 2020
• Natalie Kass, MA, spring 2017
• Lauren Cagle, PhD, summer 2016

Current employment, MFA graduates 2013-2021

Tenure-track / full-time permanent positions
Assistant Director of CRW, University of Georgia Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University Assistant Professor, Warren Wilson College	Department Chair of CRW, Full Sail University Assistant Professor, Lindenwood University - Belleville
Other humanities careers
Copyeditor, The Oxford Club Career advisor, Eckerd College Lead grant writer, Halospace Foundation Page designer/copy editor, The Tampa Tribune Associate director of corporate and foundation relations, Vanderbilt University English teacher, Chungdahm Learning (South Korea)	Administrator of cognitive skills programs, American College of Surgeons Staff auditor, Texac Tech University Tutoring center, University of Central Florida Proposal manager, WWC Global Career coach, Ivy Tech Community College Copy editor, CopyPress

Current employment and degree programs, MA graduates 2013-2021

Degree programs (PhD programs in English, unless otherwise noted)
University of South Florida University of Tennessee-Knoxville University of Mississippi University of West Virginia	University of Washington University of Florida University of Houston
Other humanities careers
VE English teacher, Hillsborough County Public Schools English teacher, Sunlake High School Assistant librarian, University of South Florida Reading coach, Winter Haven High School English teacher, Palm Beach Central High School Legislative aide, Florida House of Representatives	English teacher, Sarasota High School Instructional design manager, Publix Super Markets 12th grade honors and AP English teacher, Spruce Creek High School Software test analyst, Jacobs Systems Lifecycle Group Outreach coordinator, Fairfield University Advisor, Florida Institute of Technology

Current employment, PhD graduates 2013-2021

Assistant professor positions, tenure-track / full-time permanent
University of South Florida Sebelas Maret University (Indonesia) Warner University Bellevue College Hillsborough Community College Wabash College St. Petersburg College St. Leo University Fairfield University Southeastern University Bethune-Cookman University Sonoma State University State College of Florida, Bradenton Polk State College Virginia Tech	Eastern Kentucky University University of Tampa Washington State University, Vancouver Seminole State College Bryant University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University University of Kentucky Pasco-Hernando State College Appalachian State University LaGuardia Community College New England Institute of Technology Old Dominion University University of California, Davis Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Visiting instructor / FT temporary / adjunct positions
University of South Florida Eckerd College	University of Tampa
Other humanities careers
Full-time writer, DC Comics English teacher, Shorecrest Preparatory School Associate director, Office of Prestigious Fellowships, Fordham University Content product manager, EverFi Education	Product content specialist, Qgiv English teacher, Nature Coast Technical High School Writer, Creative Pinellas Freelance author Faculty developer/instructional designer, Valencia College