Jennifer Barton
Jennifer Barton, Senior Instructor

Department of English
423 Shanks Hall
181 Turner Street NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-8445 | jebarton@vt.edu
Jennifer Barton is a senior instructor in the Department of English.
- Editing
- Professional, Technical, and Business Writing
- Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
- Environmental Rhetoric
- Teaching of Writing
- MS, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010
- MA, English, Virginia Tech, 2000
- BA, English, with Minors in History and Religion, Virginia Tech, 1997
- Internship Coordinator for English Department
- Joyce Gentry Smoot Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2014
Books
Copyeditor, Writing at Virginia Tech, 2013, 2014
Journal Articles
- Using Canvas for English Classes, presentation with Andy Lautenschlager, 2015
- Powering Contention: Competing Cultural Narratives of Wind Energy, presentation at International Association for Science and Technology Studies (IASTS), 2009
- “Places of Power”: Strategies of Place in the Movement against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, presentation at Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), 2009
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