Jennifer Urbanek in ULL Graduation Outfit

Jennifer Urbanek

Visiting Assistant Professor
jurbanek@tulane.edu
Norman Mayer 202

Education

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Ph.D. English
Bennington College, M.F.A. Poetry
Florida Atlantic University, B.A. English Writing and Rhetoric
Florida Atlantic University, B.A. Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities with a Concentration in Linguistics
Florida Atlantic University, Certificate in Women’s Studies

Biography

Dr. Urbanek is a Visiting Assistant Professor. Their research interests include Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Literature, Southern Literature, Poetry, and Global Literature. They are actively looking for a publisher for The Chameleon Who Wanted to Be a Color That Does Not Exist and their earlier work Ballad of the Riot Dog. They have recently been published in Across the Margins, Ar Li Jo, The Awakenings Review, and The Beat Evolution Anthology. Dr. Urbanek enjoys lapidary work, rock hounding, and helping students realize their potential as writers and independent thinkers.