{"id":17492,"date":"2019-10-23T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=17492"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:31","slug":"phd-alumni-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2019\/phd-alumni-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Alumni Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n PhD Alumni Profiles\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Alexander Grammatikos<\/strong><\/a>
\nEmail: agrammatikos@langara.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently a sessional instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C, where I teach
\nEnglish and Communications courses. I initially chose 杏吧原创 University because I wanted
\nto work with Professor Paul Keen. 杏吧原创 University\u2019s PhD program prepared me for my
\ncareer post degree by emphasizing the importance of professionalization. As a PhD
\nstudent, I was given ample opportunities to teach and grade and was encouraged to publish
\nin academic journals. The relationships I developed with professors and other PhD students
\nin the department were the highlight of my graduate school experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continue to produce scholarly work and engage with the academic community. I have
\nattended two conferences in the past year and my book British Romantic Literature and the
\nEmerging Modern Greek Nation is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Mastey<\/strong><\/a>
\nEmail: david.mastey@sta.uwi.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a lecturer in African literatures at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
\nand Tobago. I was very lucky to get a tenure-track position in my field during my first year on
\nthe job market. I am confident that my positive experiences in the Production of Literature
\nprogram were instrumental to my success in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enrolled in the PhD program in 2007 after studying for a Master\u2019s degree in the department.
\nNow that I am responsible for supervising my own graduate students, and having spoken to
\ncolleagues from many other institutions around North America and the UK, I am fully
\nappreciative of my time at 杏吧原创. Of course, the department offers many excellent courses,
\npublic talks and seminars from visiting scholars, smart and gracious faculty members, and so on.
\nBut for me the true value of the program can be found in its particular focus and structure.
\nThe program\u2019s emphasis on literary production and circulation revealed a range of possibilities
\nfor literary studies that I had not considered before, which now serve as a foundation for my
\nresearch. The two main professionalization courses\u2014ENGL 6000 and 6002\u2014encouraged me to
\nview myself as a scholar, not just a student. The doctoral research project gave me the
\nopportunity to publish early in my career. The department gave me the chance to teach as well,
\nwhich helped distinguish my job application from those of hundreds of other early-career
\nscholars who did not enjoy the same range of benefits in their PhD programs. After I finished the
\nPhD program faculty members helped me to intensively prepare for interviews, including for the
\nposition I now hold at UWI. This is my dream job and I probably would not have it were it not
\nfor the English PhD program at 杏吧原创.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kimberley Sigouin<\/strong>
\nEmail: KimberleySigouin@cunet.carleton.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Sigouin completed her PhD in English Language and Literature at 杏吧原创 University in 2017. Her dissertation investigates the relationship between experimental writing, bodies, and ecology in the work of modernist women writers such as Gertrude Stein, H.D., and Virginia Woolf. Her dissertation builds upon but fundamentally reconceptualises a standard account of feminist modernisms\u2019 return to the body in light of the recent turn in both modernist scholarship and feminist studies towards ecocritical models of reading. Her latest work can be found in Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Grammatikos Email: agrammatikos@langara.ca I am currently a sessional instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C, where I teach English and Communications courses. I initially chose 杏吧原创 University because I wanted to work with Professor Paul Keen. 杏吧原创 University\u2019s PhD program prepared me for my career post degree by emphasizing the importance of professionalization. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17493,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions\/17493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}