Jennifer Shaddock, Ph.D.

After I graduated college, I spent four important years learning to apply the critical thinking, deep reading, and communications skills I had learned as an English major to journalism and public relations. I then went on to get my graduate degree in literary studies, and taught at UW-Eau Claire for over 20 years. During that time, I was Director of the Women's Studies program for two years and the Director of Graduate English for nine years. In 2016, I began serving as the English department's Internship Director. While these kinds of administrative roles are sustaining, I found my greatest rewards in the day-to-day teaching of students and the power of literature to change us.