Douglas Reichert Powell

Writing, Literature, and Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Professional Writing

Doug Reichert Powell has received degrees from  Northeastern University (Ph.D. '99), East Tennessee State University (M.A. �92) and Washington and Lee University (B.A. �90).  His interest in social constructions of place and region (especially the southern Appalachian mountains) underwrites his research and writing in popular culture, landscape, literature, composition studies, and critical pedagogy. His publications and presentations cover subjects ranging from the 1998 manhunt for Eric Rudolph to the 1916 hanging of a circus elephant.  In addition to publishing essays and reviews in Appalachian Journal, Historical Geography, and Southern Exposure, he has served as co-editor (with Anthony Harkins and Katherine Ledford) of the Media section of The Encyclopedia of Appalachia (University of Tennessee Press, 2006).  Doug's book, Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape, will be published in the Spring of 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press.  Currently, he's at work on an edited collection about place and writing pedagogy, tentatively titled Composing Other Spaces (under contract at Hampton Press).  In the Summer of 2005, with the support of a Faculty Development Grant, he began work on a project about the aesthetics and poetics of commercial caverns (or "show caves," as they are known in the trade).

Prior to joining the faculty of Columbia College Chicago English department, Doug was associate director of the University Writing Program at Duke University, and has also taught at Miami University of Ohio, Northeastern, East Tennessee State, and Northeast State Community College (TN).  He is also a musician, hiker, voter, spouse, and father of Charlie (b. 2001) and Elizabeth (b. 2003).

Office Location: English Department, suite 300-N, 33 E. Congress

Office telephone: 312-344-8122.

Email: dpowell@colum.edu

Mailing Address: 
Doug Reichert Powell 
Department of English 
Columbia College of Chicago 
600 So. Michigan Avenue 
Chicago, IL 60605