Jennifer T Keating
- Teaching Professor, Writing in the Disciplines Specialist, The Institute for Writing Excellence
Jennifer's Affiliations: Community Engagement Centers (CEC) Hill District, First Year Programs, University Honors College, Writing Institute, Pitt Cyber, European Studies Center, Global Studies, Global Experiences Office (GEO)
Jennifer Keating is a Teaching Professor and the Writing in the Disciplines Specialist in the William S. Dietrich II Institute for Writing Excellence. Her interests include curriculum design and delivery, collaborative pedagogical design and interdisciplinary teaching. Before joining the faculty at Pitt, she served as Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives in the Dietrich College for Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is committed to high impact learning practices in undergraduate education that focus on student exposure to multiple disciplinary perspectives, engagement with culture across the literary, visual and performative arts and domestic and international travel. Her teaching aims to facilitate student engagement with communities and bodies of practice that combine exercises in compassion and empathy with critical inquiry and analysis. In her work as the Writing in the Disciplines Specialist, she consults with faculty and departmental administrators to develop learning-goal driven curricular design that empowers faculty to incorporate best practices in teaching writing in their own discipline to enhance students' experiences in their classrooms and programs.
Courses Taught
Digital Humanity
Who's Watching Who? First-Year Program
Borders, Barriers and Bridges First-Year Program
Writing as Witness: South Africa [GEO Pitt in South Africa Program]
Writing as Witness: Public Lab [forthcoming]
Education & Training
- Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
- BA in English and History at the University of Rochester
Representative Publications
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-34074-1
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043847/
https://brill.com/view/title/39285
https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9780230237506#aboutBook
Research Interests
As a teacher and as a writer, she explores writing and artistic practice that develops in locations in conflict and/or emerging from strife, primarily in Ireland, Britain, South Africa and the United States, the influence of advancing technology on society and the politics of language. In recent years she has designed courses that cross disciplines including Writing Places, Writing as Witness: South Africa, Digital Humanity, Art, Conflict & Technology in the North of Ireland, designed and taught in collaboration with an artist and a roboticist, and AI & Humanity, designed and taught with a roboticist. She is invested in questions pertaining to the preservation of human rights, power relationships between humans and advancing technological tools and developing democratic systems in regions recently impacted by societal strife. She works closely with colleagues at the European Studies Center and Pitt Cyber. Recent publications include, Portraits of Irish Art in Practice: Rita Duffy, Mairead McClean, Paula McFetridge & Ursula Burke (Palgrave Macmillan 2023); AI & Humanity (MIT Press 2020) coauthored with Illah Nourbakhsh, Patrick McCabe’s Ireland (Ed. Brill 2019) and Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). She is coauthor of the AI and Humanity Oral Archive and recent articles have appeared in IEEE, AAC&U Liberal Education, ACM and Critical Quarterly.
Research Grants
Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant for Hemispheric Headspace (2024)
World History Small Grant (2023)
Global Studies Small Grant (2023)
European Studies Grants (Small Grants and Faculty Research Grants 2023; 2022; 2021)
Hewlett International Grant (2022)
Provost's Year of Data and Society Grant (2022)
Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant for Forbes Corridor Colloquia (2021)
Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Arts in Society research grant (2015-2018)
Crosswalk Grant (2016-2017).
