Assistant Professor
On faculty since 2005

Office: 309 Blanchard Hall
630-752-5783
Tiffany.E.Kriner@wheaton.eduu
Tiffany.E.Kriner@wheaton.edu

Carey Research Fellow, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
B.A., Messiah College, 1998

Theology & Literature, Religion and Literature, Pedagogy, Poetry, Hope/Eschatology in Literature, African-American Literature, Literary Theory, American Modernis

, Pedagogy, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction Writing, Hope/Eschatology in Literature, African-American Literature, Literary Theory, American Modernism

Composition and Research [EngW 103,104]
Modern Global Literature [Engl 105]
American Literature: Realism to Modernism [Engl 342]
American Literature: Modernism and Beyond [Engl 343]
Modern Literary Theory [Engl 434]

Modern Language Association
Conference on Christianity and Literature

I’m currently working on several projects, including an essay on hope in Denise Levertov’s The Jacob’s Ladder, an panel/edited volume proposal on otherness in the literature/composition classroom, an essay on invention and submission during the research process, and a creative non-fiction project on childhood cancer and the Christian community.

In between projects, I’m mining my dissertation, “A Future and a Hope: The Eschatology of the Other in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women” for articles on Zora Neale Hurston and Fanny Howe, and revising them for publication.

I continue to work on small creative projects as well.

Publications

• “Our Turn Now?: Imitation and the Theological Turn in Literary Studies.” Christianity and Literature.  Special Issue: The Turn to Religion in Literary Studies.  Forthcoming. 58.2 (2009).

• “Ascent, Continuance, Immersion:  Hope in the Poetry of Denise Levertov.” Literature and Belief. Forthcoming.  Fall 2008.
• “Civil Rights Bus Tours, Cyberculture and Memory.” The Gospel and Culture Project 1 Nov. 2008. <http://www.gospelandculture.org/2008/11/civil-rights-bus-tours-cyberculture-memory/>

• “John the Baptist at a Country Tent Meeting, Jesus Comes”. The Christian Century. Poetry. 29 Jan 2008. 11.
• “Conjuring Hope in a Body: Lucille Clifton’s Eschatology” Christianity and Literature. 54.2  Winter 2005. 185-208.
•  “Considerations of the Incarnation.” The Mennonite. Poetry. 18 June 2002. 11. <http://www.themennonite.org/pdf/magazine_pdf_32.pdf>

Reviews:

• The Gift of Story:  Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World.  Eds. Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton.  Christianity and Literature. 58.1 (2008): 123-126.

• Faithful Vision: Visions of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Literature.” By James W. Coleman. Christianity and Literature. 56.4 (2007): 705-709.

Presentations

• “Imitate Me as I Imitate Christ:  Seeking Models in Christian Literary Studies.”  Messiah College.  Invited Presentation. Grantham, PA. April 2008.
• “Ascent, Continuance, Immersion:  Hope in the Poetry of Denise Levertov” Messiah College.  Invited Presentation. Grantham, PA.  April 2008.
•  “Literary Studies and the Troping of Religion:  The ‘Invisible Domain’ of the ‘Outrageous’ ‘Turn’.”  Modern Language Association.  Chicago, IL.  December 2007.
• “Submission as Invention: The Other and Research Topic Selection.” College English Association. New Orleans, LA. Forthcoming, April 2007.
• “The Ladder and the Linebreak: Denise Levertov Looks for Hope.” 2006 Pruit Memorial Symposium and Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference, The World and Christian Imagination. Waco, TX.  November 2006.
• “ ‘Why Bother Where I Went?’Figuring the Self in Spring and All.” Modernist Studies Association Conference 7, Seminar Presentation. Chicago, IL. November 2005.
• “The 'Inside Search' Outside Church: Zora Neale Hurston and Moses, Man of the Mountain.” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
• “(Inter)facing: Developing Hyper-rhetorical Courses.”  Contemporary Literature Colloquium, Madison, WI. Invited presentation.  March 2004.
• “Muse! Drudge!:  Harryette Mullen and the Face of the Other.” Thirty-First Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2004. 
• “‘to something more certain / than myself’: Lucille Clifton’s Complication of Christian Identity.” Conference on Christianity and Literature, Bluffton, OH, October 2003.
• “Deity, Decreation, and Defecation: Fanny Howe's Experimental (Un)Knowledge of God.” Forty-Fourth Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 2002.