Dr. David Powers Corwin is an associate professor in the School of Integrative Studies and also teaches courses for the Department of English. Their research and teaching centers on friendships, trauma, sexuality, television, rhetoric, qualitative research methods, and Appalachian studies. They have been at Mason since 2013 in a variety of roles in both Women and Gender Studies and the School of Integrative Studies.
His work centers at the intersections of friendships, trauma, sexuality, and television. I work in these areas together as well as separately. For his work that aligns with CWB, he centers the experiences of survivors who have experience trauma from their friendships and how that frames their sense of purpose, ability to create other friendships, and resilience. He currently have a study going where I have interviewed 27 people with these experiences and have another that I’m beginning that focuses on college students who have experience the “post-college slump” and how universities can address this issue through more healthy relationship centered resources that focuses on these important, but albeit neglected relationships in research.