Assistant Professor
On faculty since 2005

Office: Blanchard 305
630.752.5787
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, Creative Non-Fiction Writing, Hope/Eschatology in Literature, African-American Literature, Literary Theory, American Modernism

Writing Effective Prose [EngW 103,104]
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

• “Conjuring Hope in a Body: Lucille Clifton’s Eschatology” Christianity and Literature. 54.2  Winter 2005
• “Faithful Vision: Visions of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Literature.” By James W. Coleman. Book Review.  Forthcoming in Christianity and Literature 56.1. Autumn 2006. 

Presentations

• “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.