L&E Alumni
Graduates of UNR’s Literature and Environment MA and PhD programs have gone on to achieve success in a wide range of advanced graduate programs, professional careers, and public service fields. Among MA graduates who have proceeded to advanced graduate studies, our alumni have been accepted to Columbia University, Brown University, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, University of Oregon, University of Minnesota, Georgia State University, Washington State University, CUNY, Essex University, University of Birmingham, and elsewhere, and have pursued PhD and other advanced programs in literary studies, comparative literature, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, environmental studies, educational administration, popular culture studies, African studies, American studies, culinary and food studies, peace studies, women’s studies, library science, and environmental law. Other MA graduates have gone directly into careers in editing, publishing, marketing, communications, journalism, digital design, public lands management, environmental education, museum administration, non-profit consulting, and into teaching at the secondary, junior college, or college levels. Yet others have started field institutes, served in the Peace Corps, or become Fulbright Scholars. Alumni of our PhD program have gone on to careers in teaching and research, editing and publishing, and nonprofit administration, and have received faculty appointments at University of Massachusetts, University of Alaska, Kanazawa University (Japan), Okanagan College (Canada), Idaho State University, Humboldt State University, Boise State University, Northern Michigan University, Mansfield University, University of California-Santa Barbara, Concordia University, University of the Ryukyus (Japan), Lake Tahoe Community College, Fordham University, Appalachian State University, IULM (Italy), Northland College, University of California-Davis, Young Harris College, and elsewhere. A number of L&E dissertations and spinoff projects have been published as books, and many of our alumni have won major teaching, research, and service awards.