Jen Scott Curwood is a doctoral student in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a fellow in the Wisconsin Doctoral Research Program. Her major area of emphasis is Literacy Studies, with minors in Composition and Rhetoric and Educational Psychology. She holds BA in English Literature with a minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison as well as a BS in English Education and an MS in Reading Education from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.

Prior to pursuing her PhD, Jen spent seven years as a middle school and high school language arts teacher, and she is also licensed as a K-12 reading specialist. With her advisor Dawnene Hassett, Jen has researched new literacy practices in elementary classrooms, with an emphasis on the multimodal aspects of children’s literature. She has also worked with Constance Steinkuehler to research the relationship between situated cognition and discourse analysis.

Jen serves on the program committee for the Games, Learning, and Society conference, and she volunteers with Madison East High School’s film club. Outside of academia, she also works as a freelance writer. Jen’s research interests include the sociocultural aspects of literacy learning, education for social justice, and youth productions of digital poetry, film, and machinima.

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