Graduate Program in English
Graduate Program in English
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6624
Fax: 910.775.4092
Email: maee@uncp.edu
Location: Dial Humanities Building, Room 121
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virginia (ginny) pompei jones
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Virginia
Jones, Associate Professor and |
EDUCATION
A.B. English, American Studies, Douglass College, Rutgers University
MAT Secondary English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dr. Jones’ primary focus in teaching is on enabling students to become independent learners. She believes this is effectively accomplished through their membership in a community which develops their reading, writing and research skills. Since her main research interest has been on collaborative writing groups in and out of the classroom, she frequently uses small groups of collaborative learners in her composition and literature classes. While at UNC-Pembroke, she has taught Composition (ENG 105 and 106), Literary Genres (ENG 203), The Teaching of Writing and Speech (EED 389), and The Teaching of Literature (EED 552), the Seminar in Secondary English Education (EED 475), and she has supervised the Internship (EED 449). She currently serves as the Coordinator of Undergraduate English Education. Dr. Jones has been a full-time grant writer for two public school systems. In these roles, and in her work in the community college system, she has experienced team approaches to writing and creative problem solving in the workplace. She advocates professional growth and development in technology as well as pedagogical methods for her students and advisees in English Education. She cultivates students’ varied abilities through such assignments as group presentations, listserv reading responses, discussions, and research involving such oral and written components as interviews and surveys—the latter as a result of her own use of ethnographic research methods.
Dr. Jones’ teaching and research interests focus on pedagogy, rhetoric, and American Literature. Recent articles include one in the Winter 2004 NC English Teacher journal, “Blurring our Social Roles: Empowerment and Diversity in Writing Groups” and a review of a book of Southern humor, as well as a review of a text on computer-assisted writing instruction. She has a special interest in collaborative invention and has published on the role of the imagination in argument and in research, both with a focus on classical rhetoric and on Henry Adams’ work on Mont-St. Michel and Chartres. She is currently a contributor to and co-editor of a collection under consideration by a publisher: Small Changes: Sources and Resources for Writing Program Administrators. In studying the history of rhetoric, she has also written and presented on the role of the medieval rhetorician, Christine de Pisan, in the debate about treatment of sexual assault in poetic texts, and on Jonathan Edwards and the treatment of the imagination in Puritan rhetoric.
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