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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

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