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
- Critical Regionalism
Biography
Jamie Crosswhite’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’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 has 19 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
“JEDIs Write Back: Multimodal Counter Narratives for Knowledge Construction in Science Writing.” Multimodal Transfer and Writing Pedagogy. Utah State University Press, Forthcoming 2025.
“’Inviting the Body’: Walking Methodologies as a Process of Unlearning.” Community Literacy Journal, 2024.
“Writing from the Meso: Gloria Anzaldúa and Karen Tei Yamashita Challenge Systematic Barriers to Social Justice,” Women’s Studies, 2022.
“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.
External Grants and Research Funding
USDA HSI Collaborative Grant: #Eco-JEDI: Building a City-Wide Collaboration to Facilitate Career Readiness in FAS through Science Literacy & Counter-Storytelling. Jeffrey Hutchinson (PI). Co-PIs: Sue Hum, Vikram Kapoor, Gwen Young, Briana Salas, Jamie Crosswhite, Laura Perry. $998,963. NIFA Award Notification 2022-77040-37621.
The Graduate Distinguished Research Fellowship, one of six UTSA doctoral students awarded in 2019-2020. $40,000.
Jess Hay Graduate Student Research Fellowship, one of two students from UT System institutions chosen as fellows, 2019-2020. $10,000.
New York Public Library Short-term Research Fellowship, summer residency in 2018. $4,000.