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Jacqueline O'Dell

faculty

Jacqueline O'Dell, PhD

she/her

Associate Teaching Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-999-8274

jodell@umassd.edu

Balsam Hall 9167

Education

Tufts UniversityPhD
Tufts UniversityMA
New York UniversityBA

Teaching

  • First-Year Writing
  • Studies in Literature

Programs

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.

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.

Investigation of important North American contributions to human civilization, from Jazz and the airplane, to nuclear weapons and Cheese Wiz, to individual rights, the written constitution and the democratic republic. Topics could include Coming Down with the Blues; building the car, or the plane, Hollywood and the Invention of mass cinema; from inalienable rights to human rights; the Long 1960s as Cultural Revolution. May be repeated with change of content.

Prerequisite for Honors APEX. The course leads students through project development and explores creative and critical thinking in the context of American culture, politics, economics and society; research ethics; time management; and public presentation. They will identify their project supervisor and submit their initial APEX proposal. This is scheduled as a blended course. In addition to meeting for one hour and forty minutes each week, you will be asked to complete weekly online assignments and provide peer feedback to other students. Students will earn three credits for completing this course.

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.

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.

Research

Research interests

  • Contemporary American Literature
  • Literature After the Internet
  • Digital Culture
  • Genre

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