Jeanne Griggs received her BA in English from Hendrix College in 1982, her MA in English language and literature with a minor in composition and rhetoric from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1985, and her PhD in English language and literature from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992.
Griggs became the director of the Writing Center at Kenyon College at one-sixth time in 1991, while finishing her dissertation on 18th-century satire. In 2011, the position was increased to half-time.
Education
1992 — Doctor of Philosophy from Univ Maryland College Park
1985 — Master of Arts from Univ Maryland College Park
1982 — Bachelor of Arts from Hendrix College
Courses Recently Taught
In this course, students are trained to become writing center tutors. Throughout the course, they advance their creative processes while learning how to support the processes of others. Objectives for this course include: learning a wide range of rhetorical, literary, and theoretical writing strategies; connecting theory with practical experience and reflective practice in order to learn more about how best to engage with different kinds of student writers and different forms of academic writing; questioning assumptions about writing in order to begin establishing a perspective for self-evaluation and assessment: becoming more confident at employing a wider range of writing skills; learning by doing in shadowing an experienced tutor; and developing skills to engage with writers across the disciplines and academic levels in a variety of recursive processes for exploration, composition, and revision.