Workshop on Applying to Writing Jobs

We will be joined by Claire Class (Associate Teaching Professor, English and Writing, University of Tampa), Thomas Sawyer (Writing Specialist, University of Chicago), and Peter Monahan (Director of the College Writing Program, WashU).

This workshop is part of a larger series of events on Expanding Employment Horizons for English PhDs, sponsored by an RDE Mini-Grant from the Center for the Humanities.

Claire Class is an Associate Teaching Professor at The University of Tampa. She was formerly a Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Freiburg in Germany and an Assistant Professor of English with the New York Institute of Technology campus in Nanjing, China. Her research traces the formation of an anti-essentialist sociology in the modernist fiction and life writing of Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Her work has appeared in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts.

Thomas C. Sawyer holds an adjunct instructional position in the Writing Program at the University of Chicago. His first monograph has just been published with Boydell and Brewer, titled The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript (June 2025). He has published work in JMEMS, ELH, Philological Quarterly, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and the Journal of Medieval Latin.

Peter Monahan is the director of the College Writing Program. He teaches the Dreams & Nightmares theme of College Writing. Peter received his PhD in English and American Literature from WashU in 2008.

Lunch will be provided.