Chanelle Benz
Chanelle Benz
Associate Professor
CONTACT
English
Email: cbenz@syr.edu
My pedagogical focus is twofold: to develop cohorts of writers who support and challenge each other with rigor and generosity, and to construct courses that examine texts that run counter to master narratives, especially those which engage with issues of gender, place, and race.
MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction, Syracuse University
Fiction, Creative Writing; Contemporary Literature; Black Voices.
Asst Prof. of English at Rhodes College
Longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize