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Center Graduate Students: Jessica Bannon
Jessica Bannon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
302 English Building | MC-718
217-333-0314
jbannon@uiuic.edu
Biographical Statement
After completing my undergraduate work in Professional Writing and a second major of Political Science in the winter of 2001, I decided that I love this town, school, and department so much that I had to stay for awhile. Thus, here I am working toward my PhD in Writing Studies. My research interests have shifted around quite a bit, but have remained centered around the goal of complicating some of the key terms of our field and the concepts and ideologies they represent, including text, writing, composition, and literacy. A reconceptualization and possibly redefinition of such terms is of increasing importance in our current times, with the rapid development and proliferation of digital technologies used to produce texts and new media devices (as well as cultural values and practices engendered by them) that challenge our notions of what constitutes a text, what the composing process involves, and what it means to be literate.
Courses Taught
- Rhet 105: Principles of Composition (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)
- Rhet 105: Principles of Composition - Ethnography of the University section (Fall 2003, Spring 2004)
- Rhetoric 233: Principles of Composition (Fall 2004)
- Biochemistry 360: Scientific Communication (Spring 2004)
Other Positions Held
Research Assistant (Fall 2004)
Research Interests
Adult Literacy, Ethnography,Visual Literacy, New Media and Composition, Rhetorical Theory