Department of English Language and Literature
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Christina Xan
| Title: | Graduate Student PhD Candidate, Graduate Teaching Assistant |
| Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | cxan@email.sc.edu |
Pronouns:
She/her
Education:
BA in English (Francis Marion University) & MA in English and American Literature
(University of South Carolina)
Field:
Major: 20th & 21st American Literature Minor: Southern Women Writers (Certificate
in WGST)
Biography:
Christina Xan, MA, is an ABD PhD Candidate studying Southern Literature and Women's
and Gender Studies with additional interests in media, particularly video game, studies.
She presently teaches in both the English and Media Arts Departments and assists in
the WGST Program. She is also passionate about writing center pedagogy, presently
assistant managing the center at Allen University. Outside of academia, Xan is a writer
and creator who has published poetry, fiction, plays, essays, and photography in various
journals, newspapers, and magazines as well as having premiered a film and a web-series.
She is on the Board of Directors at The Jasper Project, a local nonprofit seeking
to promote artists and art education in the Midlands. She lives, works, and breathes
for her children (read: cats), Fitz and Pepper.