Assistant Professor
Department of English
Language and Literature
223 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-3052
[email protected]
Tierney Powell
Courses
ENG 330 Studies in Fiction
ENG 335 Literature of American Minorities
ENG 337 Contemporary Black Literature
Research Interests
Contemporary Multiethnic Literature, Television, and Film; Critical Supply Chain and Infrastructure Studies; Globalization and Securitization; Environmental Humanities and Freshwater Politics
Recent Publications
"(Re)mapping the Colonial City: Joy Harjo's Composite Poetic in 'New Orleans'" in Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History, Edited by Leslie Petty and Nancy Dixon, forthcoming University Press of Mississippi (January 2025) — https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/Voices-and-Visions
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago
M.A., Creighton University
B.A., Creighton University