Jen Scott Curwood is a doctoral candidate in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a fellow in the Wisconsin Spencer Doctoral Research Program. Her major area of emphasis is Literacy Studies, with minors in Composition and Rhetoric and Educational Psychology. She holds a BA in English Literature with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison as well as a BS in English Education and a MS in Reading Education from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.

Prior to pursuing her PhD, Jen spent seven years as a public school teacher. She has taught middle school and high school language arts classes, and she is also licensed as a K-12 reading specialist. With her advisor Dawnene Hassett, Jen has researched new literacy practices in elementary classrooms, with an emphasis on the multimodal aspects of children's literature. She has also worked with Constance Steinkuehler to research the relationship between situated cognition and discourse analysis. Currently, Jen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Wisconsin, focusing on literacy, language development, and young adult literature.

Jen's dissertation research focuses on how professional learning communities can faciliate secondary teachers' adoption of new literacy practices and acquisition of technological pedagogical content knowledge. For her CV and blog, check out her personal website at jensc.org.

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