Villanova's English Department is thrilled to welcome two new faculty members this fall. Dr. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa joins Villanova from the University of California in Santa Cruz, where she recently completed a PhD in creative writing and literature. Dr. Wangmo is the author of a memoir, Coming Home to Tibet (2016), and three collections of poetry: My rice tastes like the lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley). Her teaching and research interests include creative writing; post-colonial theory and literature; twentieth-century Tibetan literature; and theories of exile, diaspora, and nationalism.
Dr. Adrienne Perry just completed a PhD in creative writing at the University of Houston. She has published fiction and non-fiction in numerous literary journals and is working on a novel, See Through Girls, and a collection of essays, Inter-Ocean. Before coming to Villanova, she served as editor of the creative writing journal Gulf Coast. Dr. Perry's teaching interests include creative writing (fiction and nonfiction); editing and publishing; translation studies; and American and contemporary literature.
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