Jean Ferguson Carr
Associate Professor of English
Director of Women's Studies
412-624-6537
jcarr@pitt.edu
CL 617-E
Jean Ferguson Carr writes and teaches in composition, women's studies, history of the book, literacy, and literary studies, focusing on 19th-century American constructions of literacy and letters. She is co-editor, with Dave Bartholomae, of the Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, and faculty advisory for a digital collection, “19th-century American Schoolbooks.”
She is co-author (with Stephen L. Carr and Lucille Schultz) of Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States (Southern Illinois UP, 2005), which won the 2006 Mina Shaughnessy Prize given by the Modern Language Association. She was textual editor of two volumes of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard, 1979, 1983). Her articles include “Nineteenth-Century Girls and Literacy” (2003), “Rereading the Academy as Worldly Text” (1994), "Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times, and Feminine Discourses" (1989), "The Polemics of Incomprehension: Mother and Daughter in Pride and Prejudice" (1990; rprt. 2005; winner of the 1990 Howe Prize for Feminist Scholarship), "Cultural Studies and Curricular Change" (1990).
Teaching:
Undergraduate Courses: Seminar in Composition, Uses of Literacy, Culture of American Literacy, Introduction to Critical Reading, Women and Literature, American Literary Traditions, American Literature to 1860, Seminars: The Common Reader, Literary Contests, Constructions of the “Girl,” Women and Literacy, Dickens, Women and Narrative (Women’s Studies).
Graduate Courses: Seminar in Pedagogy, Literature and Instruction, Culture of American Literacy, Archives of the English Curriculum, Reconstructing American Literature, American Renaissance, Scribbling Women/Classic American Authors, Anglo-American Cultural Exchange,
Producing Books / Producing Subjects, The Novel in England, Novels and Novel Readers, History of the Book and Reading Practices, Gender Symposium (Women’s Studies).
Service: Director of Women’s Studies (2007-2010), Director of Composition (1999-2002), Faculty Senate and Assembly (2005-08), Writing Study Advisory Committee, College Writing Board (1995-2001, Chair 1999-2001), College of General Studies Board (2003-06), Provost Area Committee on Women’s Concerns (2000-03, 2007-2010), Arts & Sciences Council (2005-08) , A&S Planning and Budget Committee (2006-2009), A&S Curriculum Review Committee (2004-05), Co-director, Chancellor’s Seminar on Teaching Diversity (1996-99).
Links:
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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19th-century American Schoolbooks Digital Collection
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/
Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and
Composition Books in the United States. Southern Illinois UP, 2005.
http://www.siupress.com/product/Archives-of-Instruction,216.aspx
The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/EMEC02.html
