Overview
Tanner Crunelle studies poetic form—its political affordances and ethical engagements—in transtemporal frames. His creative writing practice is bound up with these and various other interests, among them continental literary and cultural theory, feminist praxis, and (U.S.) Southern Studies.
In May 2024, he earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing – Poetry from College of Charleston (CofC). His creative thesis, titled “I(.), N.,” was recognized with the institution’s top prize for graduate student work. As a recipient of the program’s highest fellowship, he edited swamp pink literary magazine for two years. Beyond Cornell, he is currently completing an M.A. from the European Graduate School. His M.A. thesis is a collection of critical-creative essays: notes towards a typology of the gesture. You can check out his work in Word For / Word literary magazine and CofC’s Discovering Our Past project.
Outside of the classroom, he mentors LGBTQ+ student activists through an eponymous scholarship at the College of Charleston. His experience working with various nonprofits that serve the U.S. South animates his commitment to engage diverse publics in this beautiful (and timely) thing we call “the humanities.”
Research Focus
- Poetry & Poetics
- Theory
- 20th and 21st century
- Feminist studies
- Southern (U.S.) Studies
- Gesture