Raymond Deeren
Assistant Professor
Languages & Literature
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Contact
- deerenr@apsu.edu
- 931-221-7857
- Harned Hall Room HH 219
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2022)
M.F.A., Columbia College Chicago (2017)
B.A., Saginaw Valley State University (2012)
M.F.A., Columbia College Chicago (2017)
B.A., Saginaw Valley State University (2012)
RS Deeren is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages & Literature.
He writes about odd jobs that helped him, and others like him, pay the bills. Originally
from the rural working-class Thumb Region of Michigan, his fiction focuses on how
social class plays to and through aspects of American life such as race, gender, and
sexuality. Dr. Deeren is part of the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts where
he is Fiction Editor for Zone 3 Press (APSU's internationally distributed literary
magazine).
- Contemporary Fiction
- US Working-Class Studies
- Rural/Urban Dynamics
Critical Work
- "Fiction Friction: Teaching Chronic and Acute Conflict in Bonnie Jo Campbell's Short Fiction." MICHIGAN SALVAGE: APPROACHES TO THE FICTION OF BONNIE JO CAMPBELL (Forthcoming from Michigan State University Press)
Creative Work
- RS Deeren's fiction has been published in Joyland Magazine, The Great Lakes Review, and anthologized in John Freeman's Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation.