Biography

B.A. Ursinus College

M.A. University of Massachusetts - Boston

Ph.D. Temple University

Jaclyn Partyka joins the Writing Arts Department from the School of Critical Studies at The University of the Arts and the English Department at Temple University. She teaches in the First-Year Writing program, where she works to foster reflective approaches to digital literacy within the writing process. Her research focuses on authorship, genre, and contemporary multimodal literacies. Dr. Partyka’s scholarly writing has appeared in Contemporary Literature and Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World (2018) and she has chapters in the edited collections Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television (2020) and Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality.

Courses

The Writer's Mind; Writing, Researchand Technology; Writing with Technologies; College Composition I; College Composition II; Senior Seminar: Methods of Analysis and Evaluation of Writing and correct the spacing on Writing, Research, & Technology

Research Interests

digital information literacy, education technology, multimodal literacy, genre theory, authorship theory

Publications

"Roundtable: Impacts of AI in the Writing Classroom" Presented with Nicole Cesare and Michelle Rubano at the New Jersey Writing Alliance Annual Conference, May 2024.

"The Pseudonymic Author: The Authorial Evasions of Elena Ferrante.” Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality, edited by Alison Gibbons and Elizabeth King, University of Nebraska Press, 2023.

"Better Conversations About Bias." Presented with Nicole Cesare at the New Jersey Writing Alliance Annual Conference, May 2023.

“Cultivating Information Literacy in a Time of Crisis.” Presented at the Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, March 2021.

“’Be a little genrequeer': Rushdie’s The Golden House in the Age of Post-Truth.” Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television, edited by Stephen Hock, Lexington Books, November 2019.

“Fictional Affect and Metaliterate Learning through Genre.” Metaliterate Learning for the Post Truth World, edited by Tom Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson, American Library Association, 2018.

“Joseph Anton’s Digital Doppelgänger: Salman Rushdie and the Rhetoric of Self-fashioning.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 58, no. 2, Summer 2017.