Dean of Liberal Arts & Academic Foundations, North Hennepin Community College
Taiyon J Coleman is a writer, scholar, and educator.
Taiyon’s research focus includes US American and African-American and African Diaspora literatures and cultures; film; gender and women’s studies; college composition and rhetoric; developmental writing; creative writing; education; assessment; and DEI consulting.
Taiyon earned a BA in English Literature and a MA in English (Phi Kappa Phi and Ronald E. McNair Scholar) from Iowa State University, and she holds a MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature and Culture with a minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities as an Archie Givens Collection of African American Literature Research Fellow.
Taiyon is Dean of Liberal Arts and Academic Foundations for North Hennepin Community College, and she is a University of Minnesota Libraries' Mapping Prejudice National Think Tank Affiliated Scholar.
Taiyon’s book collection of critical essays, Traveling without Moving, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
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