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EDUCATION
PhD Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
University of Arizona, May 2013
Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies
Research and Teaching Interests: Reproductive Justice, Feminist Theory and Pedagogy, Visual
Rhetoric, Motherhood Studies, Embodied Rhetoric, Professional Writing, Action-Oriented
Research and Service Learning
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Present Associate Professor of English
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Vinson, Jenna, and Clare Daniel. “‘Power to Decide’ Who Should Get Pregnant: Neoliberal
Visions of Reproductive Justice,” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, vol 8,
no. 2, 2020, http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/power-to-decide-who-should-
get-pregnant-a-feminist-rhetorical-analysis-of-neoliberal-visions-of-reproductive-justice/
Vinson, Jenna, and Urmitapa Dutta. “Participatory Curation: Who Has the Power to Exhibit in a
Collaborative Community-Based Project?” Curation. Special Issue of Journal of
Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/4-1-
issue-vinson-dutta.
Vinson, Jenna, and Sally Stevens. “Preventing Pregnancy OR Supporting Students? Learning
from the Stories of Young Mothers.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy, vol. 11, no. 4,
Dec. 2014, pp. 322-36, doi: 10.1007/s13178-014-0157-6.
Stevens, Sally, Elisabeth Morgan-Thompson, Jenna Vinson, Alison Greene, Claudia Powell,
Adela Licona, and Stephen Russell. “Informing Sexuality Education through Youth-
Generated Anonymous Questions.” Sex Education: Sexuality, Society, and Learning,
vol. 13, no. 1, Aug. 2013, pp. S84-S90.
Vinson, Jenna. “Covering National Concerns about Teenage Pregnancy: A Visual Rhetorical
Analysis of Images of the Pregnant Teenage Body.” Feminist Formations, vol. 24, no. 2,
2012, pp. 140-62.
Vinson, Jenna. “Spatial Shock: Space, Place, and the Politics of Representation.” Spatial Praxis.
Special issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 16, no.
3, 2012, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/16.3/praxis/hea-et-al/vinson/index.html.
Book Chapters
Vinson, Jenna. “Rhetorical Visions of Vasectomy: How Television and Film Representations
Influence Reproductive Lives.” Inclusive Aims: Rhetoric’s Role in Reproductive Justice,
edited by Heather Brook Adams and Nancy Myers, Parlor P, upcoming 2024.
Vinson, Jenna, and Sally Stevens. “I Was the One Who Opened My Legs: The Tropes and
Vinson, Jenna. “More Than Just a Website for Young Mamas: Girl-Mom Members’ Strategies
for Countering the Dominant Perception of Teen Motherhood.” Motherhood Online,
edited by Michelle Moravec. Cambridge Scholars, 2011, pp. 98-116.
Vinson, Jenna. “Mothers & More: Fighting ‘Invisimomibility’ to Make Mothering Count.” 21st
Century Motherhood Movement, edited by Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, 2011, pp.
362-472.
Reviews
Vinson, Jenna. Review of Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric
by Adela C. Licona. Community Literacy Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, 2014, pp. 92-5.
Vinson, Jenna. Review of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity by
Lorena Garcia. Community Literacy Journal, vol. 8, no.1, 2013, pp.127-30.
Research Briefs
Stevens, Sally, Leah S. Stauber, Jenna Vinson, and the Crossroads Collaborative. “Sexuality
Education: Innovating in Sexual Health Education.” Crossroads Connections, vol. 2, no.
2, 2013, https://mcclellandinstitute.arizona.edu/publications.
Vinson, Jenna. “Busting Myths: Confronting Assumptions about Teenage Pregnancy and
Motherhood.” Crossroads Connections vol. 2, no.1, 2013,
https://mcclellandinstitute.arizona.edu/publications.
Under Review
Vinson, Jenna. Stop Saying Snip! The Rhetoric of Vasectomy. Under review at Rutgers UP.
Idika-Kalu, Cecilia, Smith-Walter, Aaron, and Jenna Vinson. “Experiential Learning in the
MPA Classroom: An Application of the Family-Friendly Campus Toolkit.” Under review
at Teaching Public Administration.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Lumina Foundation Stipend for Family Friendly Campus Toolkit Initiative, 2019 ($1000)
UMass Lowell’s Chancellor’s 2020 Community Impact Grant, 2018 ($3,000),
co-recipient with Dr. Urmitapa Dutta (Psychology Dept)
Centennial Achievement Award for Doctoral Student, 2012 ($500)
Tilly Warnock Fellowship, 2012 ($3,000)
Graduate College Fellowship, 2006 ($3,000)
Richard A. Harvill Fellowship, 2006 ($12,000)
TRAVEL GRANTS
Ford Foundation Funding for Sexuality Research Grantee Convening, 2012 ($1,060)
Crossroads Collaborative Travel Grant, 2012 ($440)
CONFERENCES
National and International Conference Presentations
“Creating Inclusive Campuses for Pregnant and Parenting Students.” Feminism(s) and
Rhetoric(s) Conference @ Spelman College, Atlanta, GA. Oct. 2023.
“The Family-Friendly Rhetorician: Making College Accessible for Pregnant and Parenting
Students.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA
(virtual). Apr 2021.
“Subverting ‘Teen Pregnancy’: New Action and Research on the Politics of Young Pregnancy
and Parenthood” (Roundtable). National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2018.
“Confronting the Stranger on the Street: Exploring Everyday Public Spaces as Rhetorical
Arenas for Marginalized Teen Mothers.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Conference. United Kingdom. July 2017.
“Cultivating a Collection of Journalistic Photographs for Analysis: The Nitty-Gritty of Visual
Rhetorical Research in Composition Studies.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Portland, OR. Mar. 2017.
“Changing Rhetorics of Teen Parenthood: The Transformational Tactics of the #NoTeenShame
Campaign.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Atlanta, GA. May 2016.
“Portraying Precarious Bodies: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Journalistic Photographs of the
Teenage Pregnancy ‘Crisis.’” National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
Milwaukee, WI. Nov. 2015.
“Mamas Making Waves: Rhetorics of Resistance in the #NoTeenShame Social Media
Campaign.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Phoenix, AZ. Oct. 2015.
“Putting Feminist Rhetorical Analysis to Public Use: Methods and Ethical Implications of
Community Research Briefs.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Las Vegas, NV. Mar. 2013.
“Do You Know Who the Father Is?: A Rhetorical Analysis of Confrontations Between Strangers
and Teenage Mothers.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA. May
2012.
“Embodied Exigence: Teenage Pregnancy as Kairotic for Rhetorical Exchange.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. Mar. 2012.
“Teenage Mom Counter-Narratives Within and Without the Web: Theorizing Web-Based
Feminist Narrative Analysis.” Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference. Mankato, MN.
Oct. 2011.
“Responding to Community Exigencies: Resistance as Seizing Kairotic Moments for Writing
and Public Action.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta,
GA. Apr. 2011.
“Beyond the Seminar Paper: Supporting Feminist Activist Rhetoric in Graduate Courses.” 20th
Anniversary Feminist Workshop Retrospective. Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Atlanta, GA. Apr. 2011.
“The Potentials and Paradoxes of Teenage Mother Narratives as Counter-Rhetorics.” National
Women’s Studies Association Conference. Denver, CO. Nov. 2010.
“Critiquing the Move: The Embodied Exigence of the Pregnant Teen Mother and the
Disembodied Scholar.” Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference. Lansing, MI. Oct. 2009.
“Surveilling Women’s Bodies: What Does the Rhetoric Against Teenage Pregnancy Do for
Women?” Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference. Little Rock, AR. Oct. 2007.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Keynotes
“Changing the Culture: Moving from Stigma to Support in Working with Young Families.” Keynote
Presentation for Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Grand Rounds. Boston, MA. Mar. 2018.
“Defining Our Successes Means Defining Our Obstacles.” Keynote Presentation at Summit for Teen
Empowerment and Parenting Success. Northeastern University. Boston, MA. July 2015.
Guest Lectures
“Under Discussion @LTC featuring Dr. Jenna Vinson.” Hosted by Wednesday Kleshiva,
Lowell TeleMedia Center. 16 Nov. 2022.
“When Parenting Students Succeed.” Invited co-panelist with Dr. Autumn Green and Dr. Nicole
Parsons. Ohio State University’s ACCESS Community Chat Series. 25 Feb. 2021.
“Facilitating Focus Groups with Pregnant/Parenting Students: What to Know Before the
Interview.” Invited presentation for Dr. Aaron Smith-Walter’s Master of Public
Administration graduate course. UMass Lowell. 24 Feb. 2020.
Discussion of Embodying the Problem: The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother. Invited Lecture
for Dr. Rebecca Richards’ Feminist Rhetoric(s) undergraduate course. St. Olaf University.
Jan. 2020.
Discussion of Embodying the Problem: The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother. Invited Lecture
“Rhetorical Analysis in Embodying the Problem: The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother.”
Invited Presentation for Dr. Marika Siegel’s Rhetorical Analysis graduate course. Michigan
Technological University. Mar. 2019.
Discussion of Embodying the Problem: The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother. Invited
Presentation for Dr. Thomas Piñeros Shields’ Youth and Society undergraduate course.
UMass Lowell. Sept. 2018.
“Activist Scholarship.” Invited Participant in Interdisciplinary Roundtable Panel Discussion for Dr.
Urmitapa Dutta’s Community Psychology Graduate Course. UMass Lowell. Oct. 2017.
“Re-Producing Pathologies: The Problems with the Stories We Tell about Teen Moms in
Pregnancy Prevention Campaigns.” Invited Presentation for Baruch College Public
Affairs Faculty Research Seminar. New York, NY. Apr. 2014.
“Busting Myths about Teenage Pregnancy.” Special Presentation for Dr. Maureen Kelly’s
Adolescent Development Course in Family Studies. University of Arizona. Mar. 2011.
“Teen Moms in the Media: Gender, Race, and Class Stereotypes.” Special Presentation for Dr.
Marissa Juarez’s Freshman Composition Course. University of Arizona. June 2010.
“How to be an Effective Teen Parent Ally.” Workshop for nonprofit and youth-organization
representatives attending STEPS. Simmons College. June 2017.
“‘Aren’t You Too Young to Be a Parent?’ Dealing with Confrontational Strangers and the Myths
of Teenage Pregnancy.” Workshop for young parents at STEPS, with young parent
ambassador Louisha Laguerre. Northeastern University. July 2015.
“How to Write the College Application Essay.” Writing workshop for Lowell High School
students in the Gear Up Program, with Dr. Matthew Hurwitz. July 2014 and July 2015.
“How to Write a Resume.” Workshop at Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. Tucson, AZ. Jan.
2012.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Visual Rhetoric
University of Arizona
Business Writing
Students studied workplace practices, business communications, and writing on behalf of
an organization through client-based projects and case studies. Assignments included
memos, emails, job search materials, proposals, reports, and promotional documents.
Advanced Composition
Upper-division, writing-intensive course focused on how language shapes personal
experience and community beliefs. Assignments included reflective portfolios, rhetorical
analyses, creative non-fiction essays, public arguments, and blogs. Students participated
in a student-based university writing contest and public reading event.
Technical Writing
Compressed 8-week, upper-division course focused on rhetorical strategies and
communications technologies appropriate to technical writing situations. Students created
usability tests, quick reference cards, resumes, proposals, reports, and websites.
Writing Center Internship Course
Collaborated with three instructors to team teach students to work at the writing center as
a paid tutor. Assignments and readings emphasized non-hierarchical, collaborative, and
student-initiated approaches to tutoring.
First-Year Composition I: Textual Analysis and Writing
This course focuses on close reading, textual analysis, reflection, and revision. Students
examined issues of identity, social justice, and education while exchanging literacy
narratives about their college experiences with local high school students.
First-Year Composition II: Rhetorical Analysis and Research
Assignments in this course emphasized classical rhetorical, visual-spatial, and gender
analysis; research; public argument; reflection; and revision. Students examined
community-based controversies and composed in multiple modes and genres.
Women and Western Culture
Three-week, online course focused on how gender is conceptualized, embodied, and
resisted by women rhetors from the classical Greek period to the present. Assignments
included reading quizzes, discussion board posts, reflective papers, a rhetorical research
project, and a final essay exam.
SERVICE
National
2022-Present External Reviewer, review journal article manuscripts for Rhetoric Society
Quarterly
2019-Present External Reviewer, review journal article manuscripts for Rhetoric Review
2023 Chair, Kathleen Ethel Welch Award Committee for the Coalition of Feminist
Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
2021 Grant Assessor, reviewed grant application for the Government of Canada’s
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2021 External Reviewer, Utah University Press. Reviewed book manuscript for
potential publication.
2019 Expert Interviewer, podcast Conversation with Dr. Clare Daniel for the Society
for the History of Children and Youth, Jan. 2019.
2013 External Reviewer, Feminist Formations. Reviewed journal article manuscript for
publication.
2013 External Reviewer, Ashgate Publishing. Reviewed book manuscript and wrote
endorsement for book jacket.
2019-2022 Project Leader, Family-Friendly Campus Taskforce. With the support of Vice
Provost of Student Success, I launched this taskforce to investigate and advocate
for support for parenting students, faculty, and staff on campus.
2020-2022 Mentor and Invited speaker, delivered a “lightening talk” at the September 2020
New Faculty Launch Event. Mentor a new tenure-track Assistant Professor in
English and a new tenure-track Assistant Professor in Philosophy.
2019 Invited Panelist, Women in Conversation Dinner sponsored by the Center for
Women and Work and Student Affairs. October 3, 2019.
2015 Volunteer, Ally Space Program “You Can Play” Tsongas Center athletic event
encouraging pledged support of LGBTQ student athletes
2020 English Faculty Rep, UML “Welcome Day” for admitted students
English Department
2020-Present Member (Chair 2020-2022), Journalism and Professional Writing Concentration
Committee
2014-Present Academic Advisor, serve as a faculty advisor for 13-23 students each academic
year.
University of Arizona
2013 Member, Rhetoric Composition and Teaching of English (RCTE) Graduate
Admissions Committee.
2008-2013 Founding member, Family Advocacy Coalition for English Students (FACES)
English Graduate Union subcommittee that developed supports for parenting
students on campus.
2009 Event Facilitator for Dr. Vivyan Adair and “The Missing Story of Ourselves”
Responded to campus-community tragedy by facilitating this scholar’s visit to the
University of Arizona with her critically relevant photo-narrative exhibition.
Nominated for a Student Excellence Award for these efforts.
2011 Writing Coach, YWCA’s Nuestra Voz Youth Manifesto Writing Jam, May 15th
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in History of Rhetoric and Composition
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council for Teachers of English
National Women’s Studies Association
Rhetoric Society of America