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The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
ALUMNI
Below is
current information on American Studies Certificate Program alumni. Program graduates, please contact us at americanstudies@gc.cuny.edu to
update your information.
Lauren Albert (Ph.D., English, 2000)
Dissertation: The Friction of Experience: Community and
Understanding in the Novels of Charles Brockden
Brown
Publications: "FragNotes" (FragLit,
Spring 2008)
Current Position: Master of Science in Library & Information Science
student, Pratt Institute
Christopher Bruhn (Ph.D., Music, 2006)
Dissertation: Ives's Multiverse: The
Concord Sonata as American Cosmology
Publications: "Taking
the Private Public: Amateur Music-making and the Musical Audience in 1860s
New York" (American Music, Fall 2003)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Music History, Denison University
Frank D. Casale (Ph.D., English, 2004)
Dissertation: “Dr. Franklin’s School of Politics”: Community
and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, Nova Southeastern
University
Stuart
Cochran (Ph.D., English, 2000)
Dissertation: Styles of the Wild Current Position: Director of Research & Evaluation for
Collaborative Programs, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs
Robert M. Dowling (Ph.D., English, 2001)
Dissertation: Slumming: Morality and Space in New York City from
‘City Mysteries’ to the Harlem Renaissance
Publications: Slumming
in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (University of Illinois Press, 2007)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, Central Connecticut
University
Ira
Dworkin (Ph.D., English, 2003)
Dissertation: American
Hearts: African-American Writing on the Congo, 1890-1915
Publications: Ed.,
Daughter
of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins (Rutgers
University Press, 2007)
Current Position: Assistant
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, American University in
Cairo.
Cathy E. Fagan (Ph.D., English, 2002)
Dissertation: The Excitement of an Afternoon Call: Re-Framing
the Regional and the Modern through the Poetry of Jeanne Robert Foster
Publications: Essay based on dissertation in Prodigal Father Revisited: Artists and Writers in the World of
John Butler Yeats, Ed. Janis Londraville
(Locust Hill Press, 2003)
Current Position: English faculty, Nassau Community College
Duncan
Faherty (Ph.D., English, 2003)
Dissertation: "A
Game of Architectural Consequences”: The American House and the Formation of
National Identity, 1776-1858
Publications: Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity,
1776-1858
(New Hampshire, 2007)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, Queens College/CUNY)
Matthew
K. Gold (Ph.D., English, 2006)
Dissertation: The
Culture of Proof: Science, Religion, and Photography in America,
1780-1875
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of
Technology/CUNY
Josh Gosciak (Ph.D., English, 2002)
Dissertation: Between
Diaspora and Internationalism: Claude McKay and the Making of a Black Public
Intellectual
Publications: The
Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians (Rutgers
University Press, 2006)
Current Position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, St. John's University
Jonathan W. Gray (Ph.D., English, 2005)
Dissertation: Innocence by Association: Civil Rights in the White
Literary Imagination
Publications: Innocence by Association: Civil Rights in the White Literary
Imagination (in progress)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice/CUNY
Brian
E. Hack (Ph.D., Art History, 2007)
Dissertation:
American Acropolis: George Gray Barnard's Monument to Democracy, 1918-1938
Jon Hartmann (Ph.D., English, 2004)
Dissertation: “Neither In Nor Out of Blackwood’s”: The
Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prose Address”
Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
Caroline Hellman (Ph.D., English, 2007)
Dissertation: Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and
Domesticities of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and
Edith Wharton
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, New York College of
Technology/CUNY
Christopher Iannini (Ph.D., English, 2003)
Dissertation: Fatal Revolutions: U.S. Natural Histories of the
Greater Caribbean, 1707-1856
Publications: Fatal
Revolutions: Caribbean Nature and the Routes of American Literature (in
progress)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University
Rachel Ihara (Ph.D., English, 2007)
Dissertation: Novels
on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial
Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway
Current
Position: Faculty Development Associate, Writing Across the Curriculum,
Lehman College/CUNY
Marc Johnson (Ph.D., Music, 2003)
Dissertation: "The Masses Are Singing”: Insurgency and Song
in New York City, 1929-1941
Current Position: Attorney
Ian S. Maloney (Ph.D., English, 2004)
Dissertation: Melville’s Monumental Imagination
Publications: Melville’s
Monumental Imagination (Routldege, 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor,
St. Francis College: Managing Editor, Arthur Miller Journal
Karen Lemmey (Ph.D., Art History, 2005)
Dissertation: Henry Kirke Brown and the
Development of Public Sculpture in NYC, 1846-1876
Current Position: Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Department of
Sculpture and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art (2005-2007)
Christopher Leslie (Ph.D., English, 2007)
Dissertation: Social Science Fiction
Current Position: Instructor of Humanities & New Media, Polytechnic
University
Jean Murley (Ph.D., English, 2004)
Dissertation:
American Murder and Its Literary Consequences: The Rise of True Crime
Publications:
The
Rise of True Crime: 20th Century Murder and American Popular Culture (Praeger, 2008)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, Queensborough
Community College/CUNY
Mark Noonan (Ph.D., English, 2003)
Dissertation: Reading The Century Illustrated Monthly
Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893
Publications: Ed.
with Juanita But; Foreword by Brian Keener, The Place Where We
Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City (Kendall/Hunt, 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of
Technology
Elizabeth Rosen (Ph.D., English, 2000)
Dissertation: Natural Causes: American Gothic Literature and the
Doctrine of Natural Law
Current Position: Associate Professor, New York Law School and Director,
Horace W. Goldsmith Scholars Program at Macaulay Honors College/CUNY
Peter
S. Taback (Ph.D., English, 2000)
Dissertation:
Nuclear Families: The Bomb and the Future in the American Middle
Class
Current Position: Director of Communications for amfAR, The Foundation
for AIDS Research
Krystyna Zamorska (Ph.D., English, 2006)
Dissertation:
Ethnic Fictions: Cultural Mediations in Contemporary American Writing
Current Position: Faculty, University of Connecticut Center for
Continuing Education
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