Jane Greer, Associate Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies (B.A., Hanover College; M.A. and Ph.D., The Ohio State University). Research areas: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies; Women's Studies.  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.  I serve on the editorial board of Young Scholars in Writing, a peer-reviewed, national journal of undergraduate research in rhetoric and composition, and 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 and work closely with secondary teachers to ensure that high school students are well equipped for the demands of reading and writing at the university,.