faculty

Jennifer Reed, PhD she/her/hers

Assistant Teaching Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-999-8274

jreed7@umassd.edu

Liberal Arts 216

Education

2015University of VirginiaPhD
2009University of EdinburghMSc
2005University of CambridgeBA

Teaching

  • First-Year Writing
  • Literature

Teaching

Courses

Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.

Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.

Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.

Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.

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.

Research

Research interests

  • Composition
  • Eighteenth-century literature and culture
  • Gender and comedy

Select publications

  • Jennifer Reed (2024).
    Introduction: Romanticism and the Digital Humanities
    Studies in Romanticism, 63, no. 3, 265-72.
  • Jennifer Reed (2020).
    Representing Sexual Violation in the Archive of Caribbean Enslavement
    Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 49, 89-107.
  • Jennifer Reed (2019).
    Moving Fortunes: Caribbean Women’s Marriage, Mobility, and Money in the Novel of Sentiment
    Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 31, no. 3, 509-28.
  • Jennifer Reed (2015).
    Sites of Terror and Affective Geographies on Thomas Thistlewood’s Breadnut Island Pen
    Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society, 1, no. 1, 34–62.