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Jen
McGovern
Program: English Ph.D. and American Indian/Native Studies Program (AINSP)
Certificate
Began program in 1997
Area of Study: 19th Century American Literature & Culture
Office: 74 EPB
E-Mail: jennifer-mcgovern@uiowa.edu
As a Kansas native, I have always been interested in the literature and culture of the American West and the Midwest. After receiving a BA in English at the University of Chicago, I began my graduate studies at the University of Iowa.
Since beginning the English Ph.D. program, I have developed my interests in new directions, including 19th century periodical literature, Native American literature, and familial metaphors in American literature. I recently presented a paper on the Cherokee Phoenix, a 19th century Native American periodical, which I am revising into an article for publication and as a chapter of my dissertation.
This spring, I am presenting a paper on the Native American poet Luci Tapahonso and depictions of food and family life in her work. I am also attending a seminar on Native American literature at the Newberry Library in Chicago. My research and teaching interests coincide as I am currently teaching the Literature of Native American Peoples. I have also taught Rhetoric, Interpretation of Literature, and American Lives at the University of Iowa. In addition, I am a Program Associate for the General Education Literature Department and I tutor in the Rhetoric Department's Writing Center.
Spring 2004, Literature of Native American Peoples (8G:5/149:5 Sec. 1)
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/mcgovern/syllabus.html