Meet Dr. Jane Greer

Dr. Jane Greer will provide the plenary address at the 2019 Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies.

Jane Greer is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she teaches first- and second-year writing courses as well as courses on the literacy experiences and rhetorical performances of girls and women and on rhetorics of public memory.  She also serves as the university's Director of Undergraduate Research and has developed programs that help faculty create and teach entry-level courses to introduce students to undergraduate research.  From 2010 to 2015, she edited Young Scholars in Writing:  Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, and she currently co-chairs the CCCC Committee on Undergraduate Research.  She has published about undergraduate research in numerous edited collections as well as in Peitho, CUR Quarterly,  Mentoring & Tutoring, and Innovative Higher Education.  In 2018, she was named to the inaugural class of Presidential Engagement Fellows for the University of Missouri.