Department of English

Tiffany Pennamon is an English Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation focuses on the spiritual essence of Black art and how it operates in contradistinction to western news media. She also serves as a Graduate Intern in UF Libraries’ Department of Special & Area Studies Collections, where she works with the Zora Neale Hurston papers and other African American collections. She has been recognized as a UF Board of Education Fellow, an SEC Emerging Scholar (2023-’24), a two-time grant recipient of the SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program, and a recipient of a 2023-’24 UF Graduate Student Teaching Award. She has taught courses including Survey of American Literature, Toni Morrison, English 1101 & 1102, and served as a teaching assistant for African American Studies courses at UF. She complements her academic responsibilities with her role as a global citizen, visual artist, and writer. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Black Perspectives, World Wildlife Magazine, The Conversation, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Women In Higher Education, SOURCE: The Magazine of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, and CEA Mid-Atlantic Review, among other publications.