About

Tana Jean Welch is a poet and scholar of contemporary American poetry. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University in 2013, specializing in medical humanities, American poetry and poetics, multiethnic literature, posthumanism, new materialism, and gender theory. She is currently Associate Professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine where she teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities and serves as the managing editor for HEAL: Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature. Her critical work has been published in MELUSThe Journal of Ecocriticism, and Academic Medicine. Her poetry has been published in The Southern ReviewPrairie SchoonerThe Gettysburg Review, and other national literary journals. Her most recent poetry collection, In Parachutes Descending, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2024. Her first collection of poetry, Latest Volcano, was the winner of the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. https://linktr.ee/tanajeanwelch

Education

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

Publications

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., & 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.

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    Memberships

    Modern Language Association
    Association of Writers and Writing Programs
    Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
    Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
    American Medical Women’s Association
    American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

     

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