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Jenny Howe

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Jenny Howe, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-910-6548

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Balsam Hall 9167

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

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.

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