Christina Triezenberg, assistant professor of English, recently coordinated a section of the Midwest Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Cincinnati, where she presented a paper and moderated a panel.

Christina Triezenberg, assistant professor of English at Morningside College, recently coordinated a section of the Midwest Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Cincinnati, where she presented a paper and moderated a panel.

Triezenberg coordinated the “Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy” section of the conference and moderated a panel titled “The Multicultural Writer as Artist and Activist: Strategies for Teaching the Literature of Protest” with three graduate students from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

She also presented a paper titled “‘When Despair for the World Grows in Me’: Using Ecopoetry and the Poetry of Place as Catalysts for Student Engagement and Activism” as part of a panel organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.

Triezenberg joined the Morningside College faculty in the fall of 2016 as an assistant professor of English. She holds a doctorate in English from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.