faculty
Jacqueline O'Dell, PhD she/her
Assistant Teaching Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-8274
jodell@umassd.edu
Liberal Arts 216
Education
2014 | Tufts University | PhD |
2008 | Tufts University | MA |
2006 | New York University | BA |
Teaching
- First-Year Writing
- Studies in Literature
Teaching
Programs
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.
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.
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.
Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.
Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.
Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.
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.
A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
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.
A survey of literature in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines the diversity of American literature--from genres including poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction--paying particular attention to the ways individuals and groups contest and define ¿American¿ through conflicting notions of race, gender, culture, language, religion, sexuality, and class.
Register for this course.
Research
Research interests
- Post-45 American Literature
- Literature After the Internet
- Digital Culture
- Information Literacy
Select publications
- Jacqueline O'Dell (2023).
'I Can’t Live in Your Book Anymore': The Limits of Genre in Spike Jonze’s Her
Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 56 - Jacqueline O'Dell (2019).
One More Time with Feeling: Repetition, Contingency, and Sincerity in Ben Lerner’s 10:04
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 61 - Jacqueline O'Dell (2017).
The Gift Network: Dave Eggers and the Circulation of Second Editions
NANO: New American Notes Online, 11