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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.

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Jenn Fishman

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