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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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Liberal Arts 216

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

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.

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.

Creative writing/literary study through analysis and practice of specific literary genre, subgenre, or form. Students analyze and understand literary formal elements, structure, and meaning and their implementation through developing their original creative voices/skills. The focus on a particular genre, subgenre, or form varies. Topics: Romance, Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Climate Fiction, Graphic Novel, Spoken-Word, Nature Writing, Black Arts Drama.

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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