Mauve Perle Tahat studies haunted institutions, environmental grief, strange objects, public memory, and the politics of space. Her work moves between scholarship, storytelling, and lived experience, attending to what societies bury, abandon, pave over, or throw away. She is the author of Spatial Residue: Plastic Affects and Configurations of Place (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) and Ecologies of Incarceration: Carceral Discard Studies in the Anthropocene (Lexington Books, 2024), and co-editor, with Kailey Tedesco, of Subtle Body Horror: An Anthology About Having a Body (North Meridian Press, 2026). She earned her PhD, with distinction, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2022), following degrees from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (MA, 2015), Lehigh University (MEd, 2012), and Centenary University (BA, 2010). Her professional experience spans academic scholarship, classroom teaching, independent journals, and blue-collar work. After a decade in Appalachia, she returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, where she lives with her spouse and two children and works in the service industry.

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