Jeffrey Kessler, PhD
Senior Lecturer
English
Contact
Building & Room:
2011 UH
Address:
601 S Morgan St.
Email:
About
Jeffrey C. Kessler has taught a wide range of courses including First-Year Writing, Literary Studies, Poetry, Professional Writing, and Grammar and Style. He is an editor and author for Writing for Inquiry and Research (2023), an open electronic textbook for composition students.
His research includes a writing pedagogy project called The People’s Grammar: Democratic Approaches to Writing and Style. This project, written in collaboration with Doug Sheldon of UIC, approaches language as a cooperative activity, encouraging participants to be flexible, accurate, intentional, and democratic.
Dr. Kessler also works on the intersection of fiction and criticism in nineteenth century portraiture. His work has traced the role of portraiture across literature, criticism, and art in such figures as John Singer Sargent, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Walter Pater, and J. M. Whistler. He earned his PhD from Indiana University.