Jessica Shumake

Assistant Teaching Professor and Affiliated Faculty in Gender Studies

Education

B.A., English and Philosophy, Christopher Newport University
M.A., Philosophy (Concentration: Argumentation), University of Windsor
Ph.D., Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona

Profile

Jessica Lee Shumake is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the University Writing Program and Affiliate Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She has received five teaching awards from the University of Arizona and York University, serves as Book Review and New Media Editor for the Community Literacy Journal, and is a College Board Table Leader for the AP Language and Composition examination.

Her teaching and scholarship focus on writing pedagogy, public memory, multimodal composition, inner rhetorics, and universal approaches to assessment. Her courses span undergraduate writing and capstone research, incorporating experiential approaches to composition, including procedural rhetorics and tabletop gaming.

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Email: jshumake@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-7958
Office: 209 Coleman-Morse Center

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