Katrina M. Powell

Katrina M. Powell, founding director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies, is a professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of English.

She teaches courses in Rhetorics of Social Justice, Feminist Autobiography, and Research Methodologies.

Powell’s research focuses on displacement narratives and the ethical dimensions of archiving those narratives in alternative spaces. Her current project, Resettled: Beginning (Again) in Appalachia, is an oral history collection in which narrators describe their experiences relocating to and within the Appalachian region. Resettled is funded by Voice of Witness.