Jenessa Kenway
Brittain Fellow
Member Of:
- Writing and Communication Program
Office Phone: 404-894-2000
Office Location: Skiles 366
Office Hours: 9:30am to 11am
Related Links:
Email Address: jkenway3@gatech.edu
Overview
Jenessa Kenway is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Kenway received her Ph.D. from the Literature program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2023. Her work focuses on embodied pedagogy, visual language, and aesthetics of embodiment in women’s writing with an emphasis on the Modernist period. Her portfolio includes over a decade of articles reviewing art exhibitions.
Education:
- PhD, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- MA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- BFA, San Francisco State University
Awards and
Distinctions:
Distinctions:
- Geogia Tech Arts Microgrant
Interests
Teaching Interests:
Multimodal Writing and Communication Courses: English 1101 & 1102
World Literature
British Literature
Film & Literature
Advanced Composition
World Literature
British Literature
Film & Literature
Advanced Composition
Research Interests:
Visual literacy and Ekphrasis
Multimodal composition
Embodied Cognition & Aesthetics
Multimodal composition
Embodied Cognition & Aesthetics
Research Fields:
- Communication
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Media
- Game Theory
- Literacy Studies
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
Issues:
- Aestheticism
- Aesthetics
- Aesthetics and Technology
- Assessment
- Cinema Studies
- Communication
- Interpretation
- Literary Theory
- Literature
- Media
- Media Production
- Modernity
- Neuroplasticity and Memory
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Psychoanalysis
- World Literature
Courses
- ENGL-1101: English Composition I
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
Publications
Journal Articles
- To “write as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman”: Virginia Woolf’s embodied feminine aesthetics in A Room of One’s Own
In: Feminist Modernist Studies
Date: October 2024
- Lost in Thought: The Blurring of Life and Art in the Visual Realism and Superrealism of Gustave Courbet, Duane Hanson, and Karl Ove Knausgård
In: Soundings
Date: January 2019
Updated: Jan 27th, 2026 at 12:36 PM