Jeanette Lehn, Ph.D.

Jeanette Lehn is an Assistant Professor, and she teaches First Year Composition and Rhetoric as well as Techniques of Research within the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Barry University. Her research interests center on critical pedagogy, writing program administration, and cultural studies. Jeanette received her PhD from Florida State University where she completed her dissertation, “A Renewed Critical Pedagogy: Rethinking Activism within Writing Program Administration,” and she is the author of “Committing to Failure: Critical Pedagogy and Failure in Classroom Teaching,” a chapter from the edited collection Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What it Means to Fail. She has published about pedagogical techniques in the “Assignments and Activities Archive” hosted by the open-source Writing Spaces website, and she contributed to Dynamic Activities published by the NCTE. Most recently, Jeanette was invited to participate in the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows in Atrocity Prevention program.