Dr. Jennifer J. Buckner

Three Questions

Get to know Jennifer beyond the job title.

Jennifer Buckner has dedicated 19 years to 秀色短视频-Webb University, serving in a variety of leadership and academic roles. Throughout her tenure, she has been the director of Peer Tutoring and Developmental Education, a professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature, and an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. She also serves as SACSCOC Institution Accreditation Liaison.

What is one project, initiative, or aspect of your work that excites you right now?
I鈥檓 excited about the opportunity to serve 秀色短视频-Webb through my new role as Associate Provost of Academic Affairs.
What’s something your 秀色短视频-Webb colleagues might be surprised to learn about you?
I accepted a job at GWU in 2007, not realizing my husband has such a strong family legacy here. His great grandfather was Professor J.D. Huggins, principal of Boiling Springs High School, who helped transition the high school to a junior college in the 1920s. I did a photoshoot of his grandmother when auditing a photography class in my early years as a faculty member and loved hearing the stories of her shenanigans on campus as a child and young adult. It feels special to be in this role 121 years later and to think about the institution鈥檚 journey since.
What does “One Webb” mean to you?
It means serving at a university with colleagues who work together鈥攐n days when we celebrate the big wins and those when we have the tough challenges鈥攖o advance the mission of 秀色短视频-Webb.

Area of Scholarly Interest

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Semiotics, New Media, Visual Rhetoric

Jennifer Johnson Buckner is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs. She previously served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of English and Coordinator of the Composition Studies program at 秀色短视频-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C. She earned her BA in English Education and MA in English at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her PhD in English Studies with an emphasis on Writing, Rhetoric, and New Media Studies at Old Dominion University.

Her career started teaching 9-12 English in Rowan County, NC where she was Teacher of the Year for West Rowan High and Runner-Up for Northeast Regional Teacher of the Year (2003). Dr. Buckner joined the faculty at GWU in 2007, where she started teaching writing and directing the Learning Assistance Program; later, she directed the Writing Center for 8yrs. While at 秀色短视频 Webb, she has been awarded with the Rising Star Award (2010); Scholarship Award (2005); and Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award (2017). She served as Chair of the English department (2017-2021) before assuming her current role as Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Buckner teaches classes in undergraduate and graduate English programs related to writing, rhetoric, and new media studies, where she also advises students completing capstone projects at each level. Her scholarship focuses on writing pedagogy, semiotics, multimodality, soundwriting and accessibility. She has served as part of the editorial collective for the Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (JUMP+) since 2019, reviewing submissions by undergraduate students.

Classes Taught

All Composition Classes

ENGL 363 Rhetorical Grammar
ENGL 425/625 Visual Rhetoric (and Document Design)
ENGL 427 Multimodal Composition
ENGL 429 Topics in New Media Studies
ENGL 483/683 Teaching of Writing
ENGL 501 Introduction to Graduate English Studies
ENGL 621 Technology and Literacy
ENGL 629 Seminar in New Media

Representative Scholarly Publications:

Buckner, Jennifer. 鈥淲hen Multimodality Gets Messy: Perception, Materiality, and Learning in Written-Aural Remediation.鈥� In Bridging the Gap: Multimodality from Theory to Practice, edited by Santosh Khadka and Jennifer Lee. Utah State University Press. 2017.

Buckner, Jennifer and Kirsten Daley. 鈥淒o You Hear What I Hear?: A Hearing Teacher and a Deaf Student Negotiate Sound.鈥� In Soundwriting Pedagogies. Forthcoming with Computer and Composition Digital Press, an imprint of Utah State University Press, edited by Kyle Stedman, Courtney Danforth, and Michael J. Farris, 2017, .