- M.F.A. Bennington College, 2012
BIO
Jenny Grosvenor is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department who specializes in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She earned her BA in English Literature from Smith College, her MA in English Education from Columbia University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. Grosvenor's niche derives from her penchant for course design, evidenced in her launch of new writing offerings in both the English Department and the Honors College at The University of Vermont: Writing Toward Happiness, Crafting Point of Virew, Writing Science & Sustainability, and, as faculty for the new Minor in Reporting and Documentary Storytelling, Writing Photojournalism.
Prior to teaching, Grosvenor was a copyeditor at Time-Life Books and a reporter, advertising copywriter, and writer-producer for LIFE and Sports Illustrated magazines. In addition to full-time teaching, advising undergraduates, and mentoring graduate students, Grosvenor continues to write. In her anthology of student fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Crafting Point of View: Experimentation, Imitation, & Exploration in the Creative Writing Process, Grosvenor shares her obsession with this particular rhetorical device utilized in shifts between second-and first-person in her memoir-in-progress, Tell.
Grosvenor recently earned a Fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and completed an Artist's Residency at Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland.
For more about Grosvenor's writing, passions, and platform, please visit her website.
Courses
- Writing Happiness
- Writing Science and Nature
- Written Expression
- Expository Writing
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Writing Workshop
- What is Literature?
- Composition for Technology Majors
- Crafting Point of View
- Writing Photojournalism
Publications
Jenny Grosvenor Publications (DOCX)
Awards and Achievements
Inspired, Taught, Nurtured Award-Winning Student Writing, The Marion Berry Allbee English Honors for “Outstanding Paper by an Undergraduate Student in English 50 or 51,” Randi Garon, student in Writing Happiness class for her essay, “10 Days,” 2017.
Inspired, Taught, Nurtured Award-Winning Student Writing, six years consecutively, The Marion Berry Allbee English Honors Award for Outstanding Writing in English 001, their essays published in the University of Vermont’s English 1 Common Readers, Essays & Explorations and The Norton Mix, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Nominated for The Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013 (disqualified due to part-time teaching status) and 2016.
Honored by the University of Vermont Student Athletic Advisory Council (SAAC) at their Annual Faculty Appreciation Night; members of SAAC and team captains invite their "favorite" professor to a dinner to express their gratitude, 2014.
Honored, A Pillar of Excellence, University of Vermont Greek Life, for professors who exemplify values of academic excellence, 2012.
Recognized for Exemplar Online Course Design by the University of Vermont’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), 2010.
Area(s) of expertise
Creative writing, composition & rhetoric, journalism
Bio
Jenny Grosvenor is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department who specializes in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She earned her BA in English Literature from Smith College, her MA in English Education from Columbia University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. Grosvenor's niche derives from her penchant for course design, evidenced in her launch of new writing offerings in both the English Department and the Honors College at The University of Vermont: Writing Toward Happiness, Crafting Point of Virew, Writing Science & Sustainability, and, as faculty for the new Minor in Reporting and Documentary Storytelling, Writing Photojournalism.
Prior to teaching, Grosvenor was a copyeditor at Time-Life Books and a reporter, advertising copywriter, and writer-producer for LIFE and Sports Illustrated magazines. In addition to full-time teaching, advising undergraduates, and mentoring graduate students, Grosvenor continues to write. In her anthology of student fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Crafting Point of View: Experimentation, Imitation, & Exploration in the Creative Writing Process, Grosvenor shares her obsession with this particular rhetorical device utilized in shifts between second-and first-person in her memoir-in-progress, Tell.
Grosvenor recently earned a Fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and completed an Artist's Residency at Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland.
For more about Grosvenor's writing, passions, and platform, please visit her website.
Courses
- Writing Happiness
- Writing Science and Nature
- Written Expression
- Expository Writing
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Writing Workshop
- What is Literature?
- Composition for Technology Majors
- Crafting Point of View
- Writing Photojournalism
Publications
Awards and Achievements
Inspired, Taught, Nurtured Award-Winning Student Writing, The Marion Berry Allbee English Honors for “Outstanding Paper by an Undergraduate Student in English 50 or 51,” Randi Garon, student in Writing Happiness class for her essay, “10 Days,” 2017.
Inspired, Taught, Nurtured Award-Winning Student Writing, six years consecutively, The Marion Berry Allbee English Honors Award for Outstanding Writing in English 001, their essays published in the University of Vermont’s English 1 Common Readers, Essays & Explorations and The Norton Mix, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Nominated for The Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013 (disqualified due to part-time teaching status) and 2016.
Honored by the University of Vermont Student Athletic Advisory Council (SAAC) at their Annual Faculty Appreciation Night; members of SAAC and team captains invite their "favorite" professor to a dinner to express their gratitude, 2014.
Honored, A Pillar of Excellence, University of Vermont Greek Life, for professors who exemplify values of academic excellence, 2012.
Recognized for Exemplar Online Course Design by the University of Vermont’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), 2010.
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing, composition & rhetoric, journalism
Associations and Affiliations
Associations and Affiliations
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- American, Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
- Out of the Binders (a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the careers of women and gender variant writers)