Dr. Julia Tigner
Assistant Professor
109 Stone Center
jtigner1@jsu.edu
Dr. Julia Tigner joined the English department in the fall of 2022. Prior to her time at JSU, she completed her Ph.D. at Auburn University and served as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled “‘We Keep It Movin’: Black Women Negotiating Politics of Inbetweenness,” which explores how Black women writers across the African Diaspora use liminality as a trope to negotiate space and live at the intersection of race and gender. Dr. Tigner’s work also appears in Outside In: Voices from the Margins (2018), and she has a forthcoming article in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists.
Courses Taught:
- EH 101 English Composition I
- EH 102 English Composition II
- EH 202 American Literature II: 1865 to Present
- EH 206: Narratives of Black Girlhood
- EH 303: Survey of African American Literature I
- EH 429: Special Topics: Black Women Literature
- EH 442: Contemporary African American Writers
Education
- Ph.D. in English from Auburn University in 2019
- M.A. in English from The University of Georgia in 2007
- B.A. in English from Tuskegee University in 2005
Other Responsibilities
- Reading Series Committee
- Literature Survey Committee
- CAHS Strategic Planning Committee