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.
- Ph.D. (English and cultural studies), University of Pittsburgh
- BA (English and history), University of Rochester
