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Jane Greer
Associate Professor
Graduate & Doctoral Faculty
Office: 5201 Rockhill, Room 105
Mailbox: 106 Cockefair Hall
Phone: 816.235.2557
Fax: 816.235.1308
greerj@umkc.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-2:30 |
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Editor of Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003). Author of articles published in College Composition and Communication, College English, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Pedagogy, and in numerous edited collections. My current research focuses on the literacy practices of girls and women in the 19th and 20th centuries in the U.S., and I am completing a manuscript on the opportunities for rhetorical education available to working-class women in the U.S. from 1840 to 1940.
The courses I regularly teach include undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on the literacy practices and rhetorical performances of girls and women. I seek to provide students at all levels with opportunities to pursue their own original research projects, to spend time in area archives, and to share their findings with wider audiences. In 2009, I served as guest editor of Young Scholars in Writing, an international, peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate research in rhetoric and composition, and in 2010, UMKC will become YSW's institutional home and will assume full editorial responsibility for the journal. At UMKC, I am a member of the advisory board for SEARCH, the university’s undergraduate research program. For my work in the classroom, I have received the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Award for Good Teaching and was the inaugural recipient of the English Graduate Student Organization’s Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award in 2006.
In addition to my work on the UMKC campus, I serve as a curriculum consultant in Language Arts for the Southwest Early College Campus (SWECC) and work closely with secondary teachers to ensure that high school students, especially those who will be the first in their families to attend college, are well equipped for the demands of reading and writing at the university. In 2009, the head of the SWECC English Dept. and I obtained a $25,000 grant from PrepKC to fund research on inquiry-based learning in Language Arts and to help students create their own SWECC Writing Center.
Degrees:
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University
- M.A., The Ohio State University
- B.A., Hanover College
Areas of Specialization:
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Women's Studies
Courses:
- English 299 Form & Structure of Writing
- English 342WI Women & Rhetoric
- English 441/5541 Girls and Print Culture
- English 445/5545 Histories & Principals of Rhetoric
- English 5519 Teaching Writing: Histories, Theories, Practices, Contexts
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