Faculty
Jen Almjeld,
Assistant Professor of English
Email:
jalmjeld@nmsu.edu
Webpage:
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jalmjeld/Jen_portfolio
Address:
New Mexico State University
Department of English
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3E
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Office Phone: 575-646-7934
Fax: 575-646-7725
Education:
- BA (1997), MA (2001) – Eastern Kentucky University
- PhD (2008) – Bowling Green State University
Courses Commonly Taught:
- ENGL 211: Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciencs: Identity and New Media
- ENGL 326: Cultural Identity and Representation across New Media
- ENGL 543/643: Multimedia Theory and Production
- ENGL 548: Empirical Research
- ENGL 578/678: Topics in Rhetoric and Technology: Online Identity and Performance
- ENGL 579: Gender and Popular Culture: Images of Girlhood
Teaching/Research Interests:
My dissertation focused on gender performance and identity construction for young women using MySpace. During the project I considered ways the new media text is analogous to historic women's literacies. As such, my research interests include digital literacies and the expansion of research methodologies to investigate such new media spaces. I am also interested in composition pedagogy and women's rhetorics.
Professional Statement:
I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of student populations, from urban youth studying journalism and teenage girls practicing digital literacy skills to traditional undergraduate and graduate students. Before transitioning to the rhetoric and composition field, I supervised a university newspaper and taught a variety of journalism courses. I worked as a print journalist for several years and my experiences as a professional writer shape my work in the classroom and have caused me to expand my definition of writing to include visual, video, online and other modes of communication.