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faculty
Jenny Howe, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-910-6548
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Liberal Arts 216
Education
2014 | Tufts University | PhD |
2005 | Boston College | MA |
2002 | Boston College | BA |
Teaching
- First Year Writing
- Children's Literature and Media
- Romance Genre
- Gender and Identity
- Creative Writing
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.