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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

Liberal Arts 216

Education

Tufts UniversityPhD
Tufts UniversityMA
New York UniversityBA

Teaching

  • First-Year Writing
  • Studies in Literature

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.

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.

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.

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
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