Overview
Tanner Crunelle is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. He studies poetic form—its political affordances and ethical engagements—in transtemporal frames, with a focus on 21st- and 20th- century U.S. American poetry. Investments in continental literary and cultural theory, feminist praxis, and U.S. Southern studies also reflect in his teaching, research, and life as a poet.
Having received his M.F.A. in Poetry from College of Charleston (CofC) in 2024, his poetry can be found in Word For/Word and Sugar House Review literary magazines; his public facing scholarship is featured in CofC's Discovering Our Past project. In addition to being awarded CofC’s top prize for graduate student research and creative work in 2024, he was also awarded Cornell's 2025 Robert Chasen Poetry Prize.
Research Focus
- Poetry & poetics
- Theory
- 20th- and 21st- century
- Feminist studies
- Southern (U.S.) studies