Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman is an Assistant Professor of English in both Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics and 18th- and 19th-Century Studies.

At the undergraduate level, she teaches first-year composition, advanced writing and digital video composing, and theories of rhetoric and composition. At the graduate level, she teaches writing pedagogy, writing research, and historical rhetorics, as well as a course devoted to reading and rereading Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

Recently, Dr. Fishman co-lead the Embodied Literacies Project, a study of college writing and writing transfer, and she co-organized the 2007 Citizenship, Literacy, and Media Film/Speaker series. In addition, she is co-founder and co-editor of the Research Exchange, an online database for writing research, and she is a co-researcher and co-author for the Stanford Study of Writing.

This summer, Dr. Fishman led an RSA Institute workshop on performance and the rhetorical tradition, and she is currently completing a historical monograph entitled Staging Education: Performance and the Advent of Modern Rhetoric. Please see her website for further details.

Representative Scholarship

• "A Different Take on Diversity," a summer 2009 contribution to the CCCC Blog
• "Educating Jane" with Andrea Lunsford in Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis edited by Michelle Eble and Lynée Gaillet (2008);
• "Taking the High Road: Teaching for Transfer in an FYC Program,"a profile of FYC program revisions at UTK in Composition Forum 18 (Summer 2008);
• Review of Smokey Wilson's "What About Rose": Using Teacher Research to Reverse School Failure" in the Spring 2008 issue of Composition Studies;
• "Performing Writing, Performing Literacy" with Andrea Lunsford, Beth McGregor, and Mark Otuteye in College Composition and Communication (December 2005): 224-252;
• "Stage and Page: Theater and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Literature Culture" in American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Pamphlet, 2001;
• "Performing Identities: Cross-dressing in She Ventures and He Wins" in Restoration: Studies in English Literature and Culture, 1660-1700. 1 (Spring 1996): 31-56;
• Co-founder and contributing editor, Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation
  

Contact Information

Jenn Fishman
Assistant Professor
Department of English
408 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6958
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: jfishman@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Kenyon College
M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

Research

Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century