Education
- Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio
- M.A., West Texas A&M University
- B.A., Texas Tech University
Courses
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Technical Writing
- Writing in STEM
- Visual Rhetoric
- Grant Writing
- Written Business Communications
- Literary Criticism and Analysis
- Teaching English/Language Arts
- Literature Identity and Power
- Feminist Literatures
- Contemporary American Literature
Biography
Jamie Crosswhite, Ph.D.’s teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate courses in pedagogy, technical writing, writing in the disciplines, and American literature. Her research interests include place-based rhetorics, walking methodologies, critical regionalism, and feminist and place-based pedagogies.
Crosswhite, Ph.D.s work has appeared in The Modern Language Association of America, Review of Communications, Open Words: Access and English Studies, Women’s Studies, The Explicator, Community Literacy Journal, New York Public Library eJournal, as well as edited collections.
Crosswhite, Ph.D. has nineteen years’ experience in education, first as a high school teacher, then as an instructor for a community college, followed by a teaching fellowship with UTSA, three years at Our Lady of the Lake University, and this is her first year serving St. Mary’s University as an Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Lead in Writing-studies. Crosswhite has won several awards for her teaching. She enjoys implementing place-based teaching practices, collaborating with faculty across disciplines, and exploring non-traditional approaches to writing and assessment.
Peer-reviewed articles
“The Critical Regionalism in Tropic of Orange,” MLA’s Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, The Modern Language Association of America, 2021.
“Memory and Lost Communities: Strange Methods for Studying Place,” Review of Communications, Spring 2020. Coauthored with Evin Groundwater, Alina Haliliuc, Aaron Hess, Katherine Powell, Candice Rai, Jenny Rice, Lindsay Russell, and Elizabethada Wright.
“‘Carry the Fire’: McCarthy’s Bullets as Shells of Life in a Post-Apocalyptic World,” The Explicator, vol. 69, no. 3, Taylor & Francis Group, July 2011, pp. 146–49.
Peer Reviewed Book Review:
- Review of Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic, by Colin Wells, Open Words: Access and English Studies, October 2018. Link
Blog
“Annie Proulx’s Visibility through Violence” New York Public Library Blogs, January 2019. Link
Poems
- “Lived In”Sagebrush Review, Volume XIV, University of Texas at San Antonio, May 2019.
- “Stripped & Spare”Sagebrush Review, Volume XV, University of Texas at San Antonio, May 2020.
- “Monsters in Bed”Sagebrush Review, Volume XV, University of Texas at San Antonio, May 2020.
- “COVID-19”Sagebrush Review, Volume XV, University of Texas at San Antonio, May 2020.