About

Tana Jean Welch is the author of the poetry collections In Parachutes Descending (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) and Latest Volcano (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016). Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, and in journals including The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review.

Her critical book, Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry (Palgrave, 2024), places contemporary poetics in dialogue with biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice. Welch’s scholarship has been published in Literature and Medicine, Academic Medicine, MELUS, The Journal of Ecocriticism, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Fresno, California, she currently lives in Tallahassee where she is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine.  https://linktr.ee/tanajeanwelch

Education

PhD, Florida State University.
MFA, San Diego State University.

Blog Posts

    Publications

    MONOGRAPH
    Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry (2024)

    POETRY BOOKS
    In Parachutes Descending (2024)
    Latest Volcano (2016)

    PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

    Welch, T.J. (2023) “Better Medicine: Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in Brian Teare’s The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.” Literature and Medicine.

    Welch, T.J. (2022) “Commentary: The Hate U Give.” Academic Medicine.

    Welch, T.J. (2017) “Language, Matter, Movement: Dynamic Community in Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution,” published in Community Boundaries and Border Crossings by Ethnic Women Writers: Critical Essays. Eds. Kristen Lillvis, Molly Fuller, and Robert Miltner. Lexington.

    Welch, T.J. & Harrison S. (2016) “Teaching Medicine Through the Study of Literature: Implementing a Fourth-Year Distance Learning Elective,” Academic Medicine 91(3).

    Welch, T.J. (2015) “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s Investigative Poetics,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40(1).

    Welch, T.J. (2014) “Entangled Species: The Inclusive Posthumanist Ecopoetics of Juliana Spahr,” The Journal of Ecocriticism 6(1).

    Rodriguez J., Welch, T.J., Saunders C., & Edwards, J. (2013) “Students’ Perceptions of the Impact a Creative Arts Journal Has on Their Medical Education,” Family Medicine 45 (8).

    Rodriguez J., Welch, T.J., & Edwards, J. (2012) “Impact of a creative arts journal on a medical school community: A qualitative study,” The Journal of Poetry Therapy 25(4):197-204.

     

    Memberships

    Modern Language Association
    Association of Writers and Writing Programs
    American Medical Women’s Association
    American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

     

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