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Orchid Tierney

2019 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Charles Bernstein
"Materials Poetics: Landfills and Waste Management in Contemporary Literature and Media"

Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
https://www.kenyon.edu/directory/orchid-tierney/

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English and History (University of Otago, New Zealand, 2001)

Master of Creative Writing (University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2010)

Master of Arts, English (University of Otago, 2013)

Master of Arts (University of Pennsylvania, 2014)

 

Primary Interests

20th/21st century poetry and poetics, new media theory, digital humanities, waste studies 

2014-2017 Poetry & Poetics Reading Group Coordinator 

 

Publications: 

Brachiation. Dunedin: GumTree Press, 2012.

The World in Small Parts. Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2012.

 Earsay. TrollThread, 2016.

 

Awards

2019 Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize
2018 Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities

News & Events

2020/12/04
Penn English doctoral candidate Davy Knittle and PhD graduate Orchid Tierney co-edit a special issue of the journal Amodern on Disability Poetics.
2019/05/08
Orchid Tierney Dissertation Talk and Celebration
2019/04/24
One-Week Lunchtime Rally to Save the Penn Book Center
2019/04/17
Petition to save the Penn Book Center, started by Chi-ming Yang, featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian
2019/04/17
KWH: Poetry is for Breathing: A Reading Against Islamophobia
2018/11/01
KWH: Building on the Archive
2018/10/18
New Disability Poetics Symposium
2018/09/25
KWH: David Bromige Memorial Reading
2017/12/01
PASC Symposium: Exhibition Lightning Presentation, Performance-Lecture: Orchid Tierney, “Waste Natures."
2017/11/15
Radio Free Poetry: PennSound@14
2017/11/07
KWH: Reading with Orchid Tierney, Holly Melgard and Amanda Silberling
2017/11/06
Poetry, Disability, and Resilience: A conversation with poet Andrea Applebee
2017/09/15
Counterpublics/The Concordia-Penn Graduate Student Conference
2017/03/14
Orchid Tierney, WIP “The Durable and Durational Extension of Language.”
2017/02/20
CTL Workshop: Designing Creative Assignments for Undergraduate Classes with Julia Bloch and Orchid Tierney.
2016/11/03
UAB Student-Faculty Tea
2016/09/21
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Courses Taught

summer 2018

ENGL 054.910 Music and Literature: Sounding Poetry  

summer 2017

ENGL 010.901 Writing in a Digital Culture  

fall 2016

ENGL 200.304 Poetry in a Digital Culture  

spring 2015

ENGL 104.410 The Twentieth Century