Jacquelynn M. Kleist
Home: 336 Camden Rd.
Iowa City, IA 52245
262.483.7243
jackie.kleist@gmail.com
EDUCATION
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA  Doctor of Philosophy in English, Expected May 2016
Emphases in American and Transnational Literature
Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Cumulative GPA: 3.95/4.0
Course Highlights: Design of independent study course: “Latina Writers and Social Justice”
Summer research at University of Wisconsin-Madison with Dr. Morris Young (2013)
Dissertation: “The Female Migrant Speaks Back: Strategic Performances of Race and Gender in
Twentieth Century Women’s Life Writing”
Advisor: Dr. Claire Fox
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS  Master of Arts in English, May 2011
Emphasis in Cultural Studies
Women’s Studies Certificate
Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0
Course Highlights: Design of independent study course: “Captivity and Travel”
Facilitation of student seminar on Michel Foucault
Thesis: “Journeys to Understanding: Re-Conceptualizing the Captivity
Narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Elizabeth Hanson, and Sarah
Wakefield as Travel Writing”
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Eiselein
St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI  Bachelor of Arts, May 2006
English Major/Secondary Ed Certification
Spanish Minor
Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.0
ACADEMIC AWARDS
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University of Iowa Presidential Graduate Fellowship (2011-2016)
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Selected as “First Year Champion Instructor” by University of Iowa students (2012, 2013)
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Selected for University of Iowa Travel Grants (April 2012, November 2012, April 2013)
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Kansas State Longman Exemplary Teaching Award (2011)
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Selected “Top Scholar in the 2010 English graduate program” (Earl M. Davis Award)
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Selected for Kansas State University Travel Grants (February 2010, April 2010, March 2011)
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St. Norbert College Distinguished Trustee Scholarship (2002-2006)
LANGUAGES
Chinese
Spanish
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Conversational Mandarin
Three years of life and work in Hangzhou, China (2006-2009)
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Equivalent 12 semesters college Spanish
Semester of study at Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile (2005)
INVITED LECTURE S
“Chinese Self-Representation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings”
 New York University Colloquium on American Literature and Culture
New York, NY. November 15, 2012.
CONFERENCE PRESENTAT IONS
“Crossing Boundaries: Women’s Travel Writing and Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative”
 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference
Albuquerque, NM. February 10-13, 2010.
 American Comparative Literature Association Conference
New Orleans, LA. April 1-4, 2010.
 Kansas State Graduate Literature Symposium (one of three graduate students selected)
Manhattan, KS. May 6, 2010.
“Dark Places: Yiyun Li’s “The Princess of Nebraska” as an American Gothic Tale”
 Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference
Chicago, IL. April 16-19, 2014.
“Esther and Mrs. Jellyby: Female Domesticity and Autonomy in Bleak House”
 “Novel Victorians” Graduate Literature Conference
Iowa City, IA. April 28, 2012.
“More than Victims: Subversive Feminine Power in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India”
 British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
Savannah, GA. Feb 25-26, 2011.
 “Revolutions” Graduate Literature Conference
Manhattan, KS. April 1, 2011.
“Naturally Empowered: The Spiritual, Traditional, and Natural as Sources of Subversive Feminine Power
in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Behold the Many”
 American Comparative Literature Association Conference
Providence, RI. Mar 29-April 1, 2012.
“Playing the Part: Gender as Performance in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
 Cultural Studies Association Conference
Chicago, IL. March 24-26, 2011.
 Women’s & Gender History Symposium
Champaign, IL. February 27-March 1, 2014.
“Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims as Captivity Narrative”
 College English Association Conference
Savannah, GA. April 4-6, 2013.
“The Role of Memory in Hector Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier and Daniel Alarcón’s Lost City Radio”
 Craft Critique Culture Conference
Iowa City, IA. April 4-5, 2014.
Panel Moderator for “Revolutionary Approaches to Alcott’s Eight Cousins”
 “Revolutions” Graduate Literature Conference
Manhattan, KS. April 1, 2011.
Panel Moderator for “Unexpected Contents of Oliver Twist”
 “Novel Victorians” Graduate Literature Conference
Iowa City, IA. April 28, 2012.
Panel Moderator for “Intercultural Impasses: Issues of Cultural Translation.”
 Craft Critique Culture Conference
Iowa City, IA. April 4-5, 2014.
PUBLICATIONS
“Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims as Captivity Narrative.”
The College English Association Critic 75.2 (2013): 79–92. Print.
Review of Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric
Imagination by Maria del Pilar Blanco. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (March 2013). Print.
“More than Victims: Versions of Feminine Power in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.” Pakistaniaat: A
Journal of Pakistan Studies 3.2 (2011): 53-68. Print.
“Crossing Boundaries: Women’s Travel Writing and Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative.” Captivity, Past
and Present: A Compendium of Observations and Interpretations. Ed. Benjamin Mark Allen.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 25-34. Print.
Hangzhou Weekly Newspaper. Weekly human interest column. Dec. 2006-July 2009. (Paid position.)
“English Teachers Abroad.” Graphos Creative Writing Journal. Jan. 2009. Online.
<http://www.snc.edu/english/englishteachersabroad.html>
“The Monster Within: Faces of Evil in Tolkien’s Monsters.” Tolkien’s World. Ed. E. L. Risden. St.
Norbert Press, 2006. 32-44. Print.
“Blogger Finds National Audience.” St. Norbert College Magazine. Jan. 2006: 37. Print.
“Take It From Me: Adventures in Chile.” Next Step Magazine. Dec. 2005: 18-19. Print.
StudyAbroad.com weekly travel column. Jan.-Aug. 2004. (Paid position.)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS H IPS
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American Comparative Literature Association
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College English Association
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Cultural Studies Association
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Popular Culture & American Culture Association
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Kansas State Graduate Student Organization for Cultural Studies
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Phi Beta Delta International Honorary Society (2004-2006)
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Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary Society (2003-2006)
PROFESSIONAL IN VOLVE MENT
Craft Critique Culture Conference Planning Committee, Iowa City, Iowa
January-March 2013; February-April 2014
Reading abstracts, creating conference panels, planning and coordinating events, publicizing the
conference, facilitating panels, assisting visiting presenters.
Department of Rhetoric Assessment Committee, Iowa City, Iowa
January-May 2013
Evaluating the effectiveness of the university’s Rhetoric program in teaching persuasion, writing, and
speaking skills, reading and evaluating the course syllabi and assignments of 26 instructors, collaborating
with faculty and administrators in weekly meetings, designing and implementing measures to improve the
program.
Assistant Editor of Touchstone Literary Journal, Manhattan, Kansas
August 2009-August 2010
Serving as Non-Fiction Editor, overseeing journal submissions from students in creative writing programs
nationwide, selecting and editing entries, facilitating publication, communicating with students, faculty,
and alumni.
Kansas State University Graduate Student Senate, Manhattan, Kansas
January 2009-May 2010
Designing, coordinating, and publicizing campus events and programs, facilitating leadership training,
assisting with the organization of nationwide student service trips, allocating funding to various student
groups.
English Department Graduate Colloquium Selection Committee, Manhattan, Kansas
December 2009
Reading and evaluating abstract submissions from graduate students, collaborating with professors,
participating in weekly conference planning sessions, helping to facilitate the annual department
colloquium.
TEACHING EXPERIEN CE
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Instructor of Interpretation of Literature: Global Perspectives (08:001)
August 2013-present
Independent instruction of 22 students each semester, course design, fostering critical reading, writing,
and thinking skills, facilitating discussion, designing assessment, directing large and small group
activities, creating a final exam, tailoring course materials to meet the needs of ESL students.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Instructor of Rhetoric (10:003)
August 2012-May 2013
Independent instruction of 40 students each semester, working in large and small group settings to
facilitate the development of critical thinking, analytical, speaking, and writing skills, integrating English
department curriculum, tailoring method and materials to meet the needs of international and EFL
students, assessing student performance, communicating with supervisor and fellow instructors.
University of Iowa College of Engineering, Iowa City, Iowa
Writing Evaluator
January 2014-present
Working with the Hanson Center for Technical Writing to guide and evaluate 80 engineering students in
the drafting and presentation of lab reports and topical papers. Providing feedback and guidance to assist
international students in their transition to an American Engineering department.
Tippie College of Business Writing Center, Iowa City, Iowa
Writing Fellow
August 2012-present
Tutoring 150 undergraduate and graduate students each semester in the Business College, collaborating
with professors and colleagues, tailoring methods to meet the needs of ESL students, helping students to
develop effective strategies for researching, writing, and presenting information in a professional
environment.
University of Iowa Writing Center, Iowa City, Iowa
Tutor
August 2013-present
Working individually with students to improve their critical thinking, writing, and reading skills.
Providing online tutoring, meeting weekly with colleagues and supervisors to discuss best practices,
giving presentations on how to work with ESL students.
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Instructor of Expository Writing I & II (ENGL 100 & 200)
August 2009-May 2011
Independent instruction of forty students, curriculum design, independent and collaborative assessment,
utilization of technology in the classroom, facilitating quarterly student conferences, tailoring methods
and materials to meet student needs. Selected as a summer writing instructor (a position offered to the top
six graduate student instructors.)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Instructor of Expository Writing for International Students
January 2011-May 2011
Designed and taught lessons to international students from seven countries, implemented EFL strategies.
Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China
Instructor of English Composition
August 2006-July 2009
Daily EFL instruction of 200+ university students, independent curriculum design, collaboration with
department members and administration, evaluation of student performance, facilitation of speaking
competitions and inter-departmental cultural events.
St. Norbert College Student Writing Center, De Pere, Wisconsin
Writing Tutor
September 2004-May 2006
Working with students to improve their writing, assisting with tutor training, communicating actively
with fellow tutors and supervising professors, participating in monthly meetings.
Early Language Instruction Program, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Spanish Instructor
August 2003-June 2006
Teaching intermediate Spanish to a group of junior high school students on a weekly basis, working
independently to create curriculum, mapping course goals, utilizing a variety of instructional and
assessment methods, arranging cultural activities, coordinating a graduation ceremony.
Pulaski High School, Pulaski, Wisconsin
Student Teacher
January 2006-April 2006
Designing and presenting English lesson and unit plans, utilizing a variety of assessment strategies,
communicating with faculty and parents, participating in staff meetings, parent/teacher conferences, and
in-service, assisting with drama productions.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Hangzhou Weekly, Hangzhou, China
Newspaper Columnist
December 2006-July 2009
Writing and editing weekly travel/human interest column for city’s only English language newspaper,
conferring with editor, adjusting my writing to meet readers’ needs, covering assigned topics.
StudyAbroad.com, Santiago, Chile
Travel Column Writer
January 2004-August 2004
Writing, editing, and posting original daily column regarding my abroad experiences in South America,
answering parent/student questions in an online forum format, tailoring style and content to meet
audience needs, communicating with supervisors and media.
St. Norbert Study Abroad Office, De Pere, Wisconsin
Intern
September 2003-May 2005
Conference coordination, organization of campus-wide presentations and programs, parent relations, daily
communication with faculty and students, creation of informational material, advertising for events,
clerical duties.
VOLUNTEER WORK
Campus Conversation Partners, Iowa City, Iowa
Mentor
August 2011-present
Meeting twice weekly with a Korean undergraduate international student, assisting with the transition to
American culture and student life, providing guidance and support.
China Now Community Project, Hangzhou, China
Assistant Director
May 2007-July 2009
Assisting in the formation and development of an NGO aimed at educating and empowering women in
regards to literacy, self-sustainment, and health issues while preserving local minority cultures in rural
Guizhou, China.
Hangzhou University Debate Team, Hangzhou, China
Coach
November 2006-June 2009
Facilitating competitive English-speaking skills, assisting with speech writing and editing, coordinating
and judging speaking competitions in Hangzhou and Zhejiang Province.