Søren Palmer

Søren G. Palmer is a Teaching Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of English and Comparative Literature. He holds a PhD (2011) from the University of Cincinnati, an MFA in Creative Writing (2006) from Arizona State University, and an MTS in Theology (1997) from Vanderbilt Divinity School. His research focuses on African American Literature, American Literature from 1900 to present, Creative Writing, and intersections of Literature and Religion.

His creative and critical works have been published in Barely South Review, Potomac Review, Huffington Post, and Journal of Religion and Film. He has been shortlisted for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (2016) and nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2006).

Teaching responsibilities include ENG 105: Composition and Rhetoric, ENG 123: Introduction to Fiction, and ENG 129: Literature and Cultural Diversity. His research explores themes of race, language, modernist techniques, and religious symbolism across literary media.