51²è¹İapp

Photo of Jen Shook with books
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Phone
641-269-3121
Address

Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Room 268
1108 Park St
51²è¹İapp, IA 50112
United States

Jen Shook

Assistant Professor
Offices, Departments, or Centers: Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies , Digital Studies ,

Jen Shook is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies, whose practice lives at the intersections of dramaturgy, directing, literature, cultural memory, Indigenous studies. community engagement, and digital liberal arts. She previously taught at 51²è¹İapp as a Fellow in the Mellon-funded Digital Bridges in Humanistic Inquiry (2016-2018), and has also taught at institutions including Columbia College Chicago, The Theatre School at DePaul University, Penn State, Oklahoma State, and the University of Iowa. 

She worked as a dramaturg, director, and theatre producer in Chicago, where she founded Caffeine Theatre—a company that mined the poetic tradition to explore social questions (2002-2012). Her in-process book manuscript, Unghosting Tribalographies: Performing Oklahoma-as-Indian-Territory examines transcultural collaborations and Native American performers’ reworkings of historical commemorations in the microcosm of her home state. She serves on the steering committee of the American Studies Association's Digital Humanities Caucus, and has been a fellow with WikiEdu, Imagining America, NEH's Digital Native American Indigenous Studies pedagogy cohort, and Penn State's Center for Humanities and Information. She also makes art with large rocks and small shadow puppets. 

Education and Degrees

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies, University of Iowa

Graduate Certificate, Center for the Book, University of Iowa

MA, Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of Chicago

BA, English, Religion, & Women's Studies, Swarthmore College

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