Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman is an Assistant Professor of English and a member of both the RWL and the 18th- and 19th-Century Studies Divisions.

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.

Recently, Dr. Fishman co-lead the Embodied Literacies Project, a study of college writing and writing transfer, and she co-organized the 2007-8 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.

Currently, Dr. Fishman is working on a historical monograph, Public Education: Performance and Modern Rhetorical Paideia, and she will be leading a workshop on performance and rhetorical agency in June 2009 at the Rhetoric Society of America's Summer Institute. Please see her website for further details.

Selected Publications

Representative articles

• "Educating Jane" with Andrea Lunsford in Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis edited by Michelle Eble and Lynée Gaillet (forthcoming with Parlor Press);
• "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