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Dr. Jen Moskowitz earned her B.A. in English from the University of Sioux Falls in 1992, after which she was a stay-at-home mom for almost ten years. Visits to help in various classrooms showed Jen that she didn’t want to cut out reindeer antlers indefinitely, and Jen’s goal had always been to earn her doctorate in English, so she entered the graduate program at the University of South Dakota. Jen took her M.A. in English in 2001 and her Ph.D. in English in 2007, both from The University of South Dakota.
Jen has taught freshman and sophomore composition, introductory literature, both American and British literature survey, contemporary poetry, writing methods, and critical theory. Jen has written articles and presented papers on 20th century American literature, 19th century British literature, 20th century adolescent fiction, and medieval English literature.
Current research interests for Jen are critical treatment of adolescent fiction, the political function of food in film, language use in Hemingway and Faulkner, and the conflict between traditional ethnic storytelling and postmodernist writing styles.
At home in Vermillion, SD, Jen enjoys time with her family: husband Dave, a musicologist at USD; eldest daughter Heather, a freshman at South Dakota State University; 15 year-old son Lucas, drummer in his band; 12 year-old Katie, whose favorite book is Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game (it’s fantastic); and baby Jack, who recently began to say “mom.”
PUBLICATIONS
“10,000 Miles of Nameless, Faceless Space: Postmodern Identity in In the Lake of the Woods.”
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien. Eds. Alex Vernon and CatherineCalloway. New York: Modern Language Association of America. Forthcoming January 2009.
“The Cultural Myth of the American Cowboy, or, How the West Was Won.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular
Culture 5.1 (2006). http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2006/moskowitz.htm.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007 The University of South Dakota Humanities Research Forum and the USD English Department
Colloquium Series, December 2007
“Harry Potter and the Capitalist’s Stone: Interpellation and the Embedded Setting in the Harry Potter Novels”
2001-5 University Writing Center Workshop presentation, October 2005
“Writing the Successful Essay Exam” and “The Fine Art of MLA: Smooth Citation without Plagiarism”
SERVICE
Graduate Student Advisory Council, Department of English, 2006-07, 2002-03
Committee on Revision of English 210: Introduction to Literature, Department of English, USD, 2004-2005
Standing Committee on Graduate Grievance Procedures of the Graduate Council, 2006-07
STEP Project Compliance Liaison (coordinated effort between School of Education and Department of English to align course objectives with student teacher examination preparation), 2005-06
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Are You My Mother?: The Absenting of Parents in Adolescent Fiction"
Midwest Popular Culture Association/ Midwest American Culture AssociationConference, Indianapolis, IN, October 2006
“Looking Backward for Radical Change: Nostalgia in the Adolescent Novel”
American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2006
“‘Che vuoi?’: The Function of the Postmodern Adolescent Novel”
Forum for Graduate Research and Creative Work, USD, Vermillion, SD, April 2006
“The Cultural Myth of the American Cowboy, or, How the West Was Won”
John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, Vermillion, SD, October 2005
“Detecting Postmodern Identity: Genre Play in the Adolescent Mystery Novel”
Popular Culture Association National Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2005
“Negotiating the Postmodern: Strategies of Narrative Resolution in Adolescent Fiction”
Forum for Graduate Research and Creative Work, USD, Vermillion, SD, April 2004
“Coding the Other: The Monster as Oriental in Shelley’s Frankenstein”
International Conference on Romanticism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, October 2003
Also given to an English Department Colloquium at USD, December 2003
“Completing the Cycle of Past, Present and Future: New Testament Allegory in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight" Midwest Earlier British Literature Conference, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, April 2002
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