Life After UC Davis English PhD
Jenae Cohn
Job title: Academic Technology Specialist, Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University
As an ATS, I support instructor use of educational technology in their writing classes. This support comes in several forms: I lead workshops for small groups, hold one-on-one consultations with instructors who want to implement particular technology projects in their writing classes, and prepare virtual support materials, like step-by-step help documentation and online tutorials.In addition to those responsibilities, I’m currently conducting research on faculty attitudes towards implementing learning technologies in their classes. I am also preparing a syllabus for teaching a first-year composition course here in the spring!I wear many metaphorical hats in this job, in short, toggling between my practical knowledge as a technologist, my theoretical knowledge in media studies and educational technology as a researcher, and my pedagogical knowledge as an instructor.