I teach undergraduates and graduate students rhetoric and composition at Marquette
University, where my abiding interests in performance and pedagogy inform both my
historical scholarship and my contemporary writing research. 

I have worked on the Stanford Study of Writing since it began in 2001, and at
UT-Knoxville I led the Embodied Literacies Project with co-Principal Investigators Stacey
Pigg and Mary Jo Reiff. Currently, I am working with Lee Nickoson on a Mellon-supported
study of writing at Kenyon College, and I am involved in the ongoing development of the
Research Exchange (REx), an online resource for writing researchers. 

As a historian, my attention is usually focused on the British long eighteenth century,
and I am especially interested in the contribution public theater made to the formation
of modern rhetoric between 1656 and 1800. In 2009, I led an RSA Institute Workshop on
performance and the rhetorical tradition, and I am guest editing the inaugural issue of
CCC Online, which will feature new work on performance. 

My published scholarship appears in College Composition and Communication, College Forum,
Composition Studies, Stories of Mentoring, and the forthcoming collection, New Directions
in Writing Studies Research: Methods and Models for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy
edited by Lee Nickoson and Mary P. Sheridan. 

IRB Forms (Approved)

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Form D: Does it Transfer?: Tracing First-Year Composition Students' Rhetorical Practices Across Multiple Mediums (2007)

Co-Principal Investigators Jenn Fishman and Mary Jo Reiff worked with Bill Doyle and Stacey Pigg...

 

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Form B: Embodied Literacies Project (2005)

Co-Principal Investigators Jenn Fishman and Stacey Pigg led the first year of the Embodied Literacies...

 

Events

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Overview: RWL Speaker Series (2010)

Due to efforts made by Jenn Fishman and Mike Keene, the Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics...

 

Grants (Awarded)

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QEP Grant Proposal (2007)

Jenn Fishman and Chris Holmlund were awarded a QEP Grant for AY2007-8 to support the...

 

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Summer GRA Application (2007) (2007)

This grant supported work that Ben Samples undertook with Jenn Fishman during Summer 2007.

 

AY2010-11

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ENG 589: Popular Education Announcement (2010)

In Spring 2011, I will be teaching a graduate course on popular education in collaboration...

 

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Picturing Writing for NDOW 2010 (2010)

These are my reasons for hosting a photo contest for NDOW. I hope my rationale...

 

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TN12: An Everyday Photo Contest (2010)

* Once a day for 12 days, take 1 picture of a TN person, place,...