Jeffrey Kessler, PhD
Senior Lecturer
English
Contact
Building & Room:
2011 UH
Address:
601 S Morgan St.
Office Phone:
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About
Jeffrey C. Kessler teaches a wide range of courses including Professional Writing, Literary Studies, First-Year Writing, and Grammar and Style. He also serves as the Professional Writing Internship Coordinator, teaching the department’s internship seminar and supporting students applying for internships.
His research focuses on attention theory, media, pedagogy, and literary studies. His current project examines forms of literary attention emerging from late-nineteenth-century British aestheticism, critiquing contemporary discussions about the attention economy. His previous 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 is an editor and author for Writing for Inquiry and Research (2023), an open electronic textbook for composition students. He earned his PhD from Indiana University.