Dwight Tanner is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dwight was the recipient of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20. Before starting at Appalachian State, he taught courses on Black Speculative Fiction and World Literatures at Winston-Salem State University.

Dwight researches twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and film with a focus on ecocriticism, comparative ethnic literature, and LGBTQ literature and culture. His current book project focuses on minoritarian identity and futurity in apocalyptic narratives.

His work has been published in South Atlantic Review, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and Post-45. In addition to varied first-year composition courses, for which he has won a James R. Gaskin Award, Dwight has taught courses on race and intersectionality, apocalyptic literature, black speculative fiction, world literatures, and narratives of dehumanization.