Owen Cantrell (PhD, Georgia State University [2015]) is a scholar, teacher, and poet living in Atlanta, Georgia. He has written on Midwestern literature in MidAmerica and Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Places; and Bruce Springsteen and folk music in Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music: Rhetoric, Memorial, and Contemporary Culture.
HIs courses include: “The Power of ‘Truthiness’: Thinking and Writing Empirically in a Post-Fact World" (ENGL 1101); “We Understand, Then, Do We Not: Narrative and Empathy in Fictional Forms” (ENGL 1102); "Imaginary Resolutions to Real Contradictions: American Popular Culture, 1828-present" (PERS 2003); "Project Labs: Georgia State University Prison Education Project" (PERS 2003); and "Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not After You: Pop Culture and Paranoia" (PERS 2003H). Owen works as an Assistant Professor of English at Perimeter College, Georgia State University in Alpharetta, Georgia and Coordinator of the Georgia State University Prison Education Project.
Digital versions of my CV and Teaching Philosophy are available. Learn more about my work at Phillips State Prison with Common Good Atlanta here or see my current course offerings here.
HIs courses include: “The Power of ‘Truthiness’: Thinking and Writing Empirically in a Post-Fact World" (ENGL 1101); “We Understand, Then, Do We Not: Narrative and Empathy in Fictional Forms” (ENGL 1102); "Imaginary Resolutions to Real Contradictions: American Popular Culture, 1828-present" (PERS 2003); "Project Labs: Georgia State University Prison Education Project" (PERS 2003); and "Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not After You: Pop Culture and Paranoia" (PERS 2003H). Owen works as an Assistant Professor of English at Perimeter College, Georgia State University in Alpharetta, Georgia and Coordinator of the Georgia State University Prison Education Project.
Digital versions of my CV and Teaching Philosophy are available. Learn more about my work at Phillips State Prison with Common Good Atlanta here or see my current course offerings here.
