Aileen Tierney

PhD Graduate Candidate
Biography

Office Hours

Thursday; 1:00 - 3:30 pm and 4:45 - 5:15 pm and by appointment. I encourage students to send me an email if they plan on attending drop-in hours.

Get to know Aileen

Aileen Tierney is a PhD student in English at the University of Iowa. She specializes in avant-garde and experimental literature, as well as how writers depict technology in their works. She is especially interested in the aesthetics of electronic and interactive literature, and the digital preservation methods for born-digital artwork.

Before coming to Iowa, Aileen graduated with her BA in English at the University of Kentucky. She is currently an Interpretation of Literature instructor at the University of Iowa, and has taught Rhetoric and Foundations of the English Major.

Research areas
  • avant-garde and experimental literature
  • digital humanities
  • human-computer interaction
  • medical humanities
  • visual studies
Portrait of Aileen Tierney
Contact Information
Address

73 English Philosophy Building
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States