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Jennifer S. Cook, M.Ed., Ed.D
Co-Founder, Past Clerk, Director 2003- 2009
Assistant Professor
Providence, Rhode Island
Jenn is an Assistant Professor of English and English education at Rhode Island College in Providence. A former high school English teacher, Jenn currently teaches composition, qualitative research, and English teacher education courses to undergraduate and graduate students at RIC. Jenn is also a Co-Director of the Rhode Island Writing Project, where she directs the Mentoring Program for New Teachers, and a Board member of the New England Educational Research Organization. Her newest interests include the teaching of writing and academic discourse through qualitative research and ethnography as well as the study and teaching of cultural and media studies.
Some courses that Jenn has enjoyed teaching recently are "Only Teenage Wasteland? Researching Youth Cultures" and "The Lives of Teachers in Literature and Film" in the English Department, and "The Teaching of Writing in Secondary Schools" in the School of Education. Jenn currently is at work, with her two colleagues in the Writing Program at RIC, on a chapter for an edited volume on undergraduate research and academic literacies. Recent works include a collaborative piece on writing and pedagogy for Across the Disciplines, a Youth Culture blog from her senior seminar in English, and a paper session at the Conference on College Composition and Communcation in New Orleans in April 2008 Jenn is a 2008 recipient of the Miss Foley Award.
Check out Jenn's YouTube debut, produced and edited by Barry Lane.