Jenny Howe

faculty

Jenny Howe, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-910-6548

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Liberal Arts 216

Education

2014Tufts UniversityPhD
2005Boston CollegeMA
2002Boston CollegeBA

Teaching

  • First Year Writing
  • Children's Literature and Media
  • Romance Genre
  • Gender and Identity
  • Creative Writing

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.

Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.

Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.

A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children's Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music, and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as BLS 200; LST 200.

A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children's Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music, and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as BLS 200; LST 200.

A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children's Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music, and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as BLS 200; LST 200.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Techniques of writing fiction. Guides students through writing and refining short fiction. This course develops students' abilities to create and revise short stories reflecting an understanding of the elements of fiction, including characterization, dialogue, plot, setting, point of view, and theme. In addition, students will analyze their own writing, peer stories, and model stories. Students will learn how to respond to the writing of their peers and offer helpful feedback. Workshop format.

Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.
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Research

Research interests

  • Children's literature and media
  • Romance genre
  • Gender and identity
  • Writing pedagogy

Select publications

  • Jenny L. Howe (2025).
    Love at Full Tilt
    Delacorte Press
  • Jenny L Howe (2024).
    How to Get a Life in Ten Dates
    St. Martin's Press
  • Jenny L. Howe (2023).
    On the Plus Side
    St. Martin's Press
  • Jenny L. Howe (2022).
    The Make-Up Test
    St. Martin's Press

Professor Jenny Howe teaches writing and literature courses that focus on children’s literature/media, the romance genre, and the representation of bodies and identity, as well as courses in creative writing. She also writes and publishes fiction for teens and adults. Her books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, and have been selected as editor's picks on Amazon and Reader's Digest. Her third romantic comedy, How to Get a Life in Ten Dates, releases with St. Martin's Press in 2024, and her first YA novel comes out with Delacorte Press in 2025.