List of Comparative Literature Graduates and their Current Employment (by year of defense)
2018
Irina Sadovina, Professor Of Russian Studies, University of Missouri
2017
Veronica Jimenez, Research Professor, Faculty of Media Studies and Contemporary Arts, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
2016
Karen Yaworski, Champlain St Lambert College
2015
Yan Lu, Sessional Instructor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Lukasz Wodzynski, Sesional Faculty, McMaster University ; Slavic Department, University of Toronto
2014
Myra Bloom, Communication Instructor, University of Toronto
Yi Chen, Sesional Lecturer, York University
Joseph Culpepper, Instructor , Montreal’s National Circus School
Jeannine Pitas, Assistant Professor, Spanish, Dubuque University
Julie Parisien, Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
2013
Antonio Viselli, Lecturer in European Studies,University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
2012
Annarita Primier, Visting Assistant Professor of French and Italian McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Modern Languages and Literatures
Sarah O’Brien, Assistant Professor, Professional Writing Program in the Department of English, University of Virginia
Jonathan Allan, Assistant Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Queer Theory, Gender and Women’s Studies, Brandon University
2011
Vanessa Robinson, Professor of Business Communications at Sheridan College
Pablo Pemeja, Teacher, Languages Department, Cégep de l’Outaouais
2010
Elisa Segnini, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of British Colombia
Lauren Lydic, Lecturer , The American University of Paris
Andrés Pérez Simón, Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Cincinnati
Karen Heather Pike, Professor/Coordinator, School of Language and Communications Studies, Conestoga College
2009
Nizar Hermes, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia
Keavy Martin, Assistant Professor of English and Aboriginal Studies, University of Alberta
Martin Zeilinger, Lecturer in Media Studies, Dept. of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge/UK
Jenna Sunkenberg, Senior Lecturer, Books and Media Program, University of Toronto
2008
Sandra Bialystok, Communications Officer, Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining
Stephanie Chong, Novelist
Suha Kudsieh, Assistant Professor, World Literature, CUNY-Staten Island
2007
Daniel Perry, Senior Clearance Analyst, Advertising Standards Canada, and author
Heather Macfarlane, Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Queen’s University
Jena Habegger-Conti, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger, Norway
Jessica (Tsui-yan) Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Nadia Bozak, Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa. Novelist, author of the novels Orphan Love (Key Porter, 2007) and El Niño (Anansi, 2014).
Ian MacRae, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Studies & Journalism, Wilfrid Laurier University
Barnaby Clunie, Manager, Marketing & Communications at Adastra
2006
Sylwia Dominika Chrostowska, Assistant Professor of European Studies, Humanities Department, York University
Vivian Ralickas, English teacher at Marianopolis College in Westmount (Montreal), Quebec
Levi Namaseb, lecturer in Khoekhoegowab, University of Namibia
2005
Irene Marques, instructor at Ontario College of Art and Design, author of Wearing Glasses of Water, The Circular Incantation and Habitando na metáfora do tempo
George Gasyna, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Program in Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004
Saeed Ghahremani, Senior Lecturer of Persian, University of Chicago
Elias Polizoes, co-owner, The Wood Studio, London, Ontario
2003
Snezana Brajovic-Andjelkovic, Instructor, Semiotics, University of Victoria College
Jonathan Rollins, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ryerson University
2002
Luca Pocci, Assistant professor of Italian, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Western Ontario
2001
Nancy Pedri, Associate Professor of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Julia Moss Zarb, Administrative director, MHI Public Health Informatics Program, University of Toronto
Julija Sukys, Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing — Creative Nonfiction), University of Missouri
Sean Gurd, Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Studies, University of Missouri
Annika Hannan, Professor of Communications and Liberal Studies at George Brown College, Toronto
Susan Mooney, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, University of South Florida at Tampa
Corina Martin Iordache, High school teacher, Toronto
Wendy Knepper, Senior Lecturer of English at Brunel University London
Danielle Constantin, adjunct professor, École Normale Supérieure, Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM-CNRS/ENS)
2000
Wendy Eberle Sinatra, Instructor, English, John Abbott College, Montreal
1999
Marie Carrière, Associate Professor, French, and Director of the Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta
Russell Kilbourn, Assistant Professor, English and Film, Wilfrid Laurier University
1998
Jill Scott, Associate Professor, German, Queen’s University, Kingston
Albert Braz, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Religion, and Film/Media Studies, University of Alberta
Diana Kuprel, Associate Director of Development Communications, University of Toronto
1996
Marie-Anne Visoi, Lecturer, University of Toronto, French Department
Noriko Takeda, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan
François Lachance, Policy Branch, Ministry of the Attorney General
1995
Matthew DeCoursey, Professor of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Jeanne Iribarne, English Instructor, Camosun College
1994
Nella Cotrupi, Adult Education, University of Toronto
Richard Sanger, writer; teaching at the French School
1993
Christine Roulston, Professor, French, University of Western Ontario, London
1992
Wendy Waring, Director of the Institute for Women’s Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Suzanne Bailey, Associate Professor, English, Trent University, Peterborough
1991
Winfried Siemerling, Professor, English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo
Calin Mihailescu, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, London
Walid Hamarneh, Associate Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Richmond
1990
Elena Corrigan, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Karina Kailo, Professor of Women’s Studies, Oulu U, Finland
Mustapha Marrouchi, Rogers Fellow in Post-colonial Literature, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1989
Marie Vautier, Associate Professor, French, University of Victoria
Barbara Havercroft, Associate Professor, French and Comp Lit, U of T
1988
Ann Rigney, Chair of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University
M. Jean Wilson, Associate Professor, Modern Languages, McMaster University
1987
Daniel Chamberlain, Associate Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Italian, Queen’s University
1986
Peter Hynes, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, U. of Saskatchewan
1985
Sylvia Söderlind, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Queen’s University
Richard Cavell, Professor, Dept. of English, University of British Columbia (?)
1984
Geert Lernout, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the James Joyce Centre, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ruth Ronen: Professor, Department of Philosophy and Unit of Culture Research Faculty of Humanities,Tel Aviv University, Israel
1983
Christopher Hoile: reviewer and journalist
Paul Ady: Professor of English, Assumption College (US)
Rosmarin Heidenreich: Professor, Translation, Collège Universitaire Saint-Boniface (Winnipeg)
Carolyn Roberts Finlay: author; Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) in Piano Performance
1982
Karen Laughlin: Associate Professor of English and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Florida State University