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Jill M. Zellmer

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Milwaukee Area Technical College - Communication

English Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College
Higher Education
Jill
Zellmer
Greater Milwaukee Area
I have taught Literature and Composition courses at all levels for over 20 years at a variety of post-secondary institutions: a four-year university, a private two-year college, and two-year public colleges. I grew up in Milwaukee and earned my undergraduate degree from UW-Madison and my PhD from UW-Milwaukee. I enjoy teaching English at Milwaukee Area Technical College where members of my family have taken classes. Helping to empower my community through education is my mission.

Experience

  • Milwaukee Area Technical College

    English Department Chair

    Responsibilities include scheduling and running multi-campus department meetings with agenda set in collaboration with faculty; regularly communicate department business with and assist full and part-time faculty; facilitate full-time faculty scheduling procedure; represent department in working with Associate Dean, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and other MATC faculty and administration, with monthly participation in Curriculum, Learning, & Assessment/Student Outcome Assessment Committee; encourage completion of Committee work including updates of textbooks and Course Outcome Summaries; order textbooks for sections assigned to part-time faculty; maintain department Blackboard site; and perform other duties as assigned by deans and other administrators.

  • Milwaukee Area Technical College

    English Instructor

    Teach the following courses: 201 English One, 202 English Two, 213 American Literature to 1865, 215 Contemporary Literature, 222 Images of Women in Literature, and 240 Introduction to Modern Cinema

  • Lake Michigan College

    English Instructor

    Taught the following courses: 100 Freshman Seminar, 093/094 Basic Writing, 101 English Composition, and 208 Literary Interpretation

  • Upper Iowa University

    English Instructor

    Received Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005 and taught the following courses: 101 Basic Composition, 352 Best Sellers, and 365 Women and Literature

  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

    Teaching Assistant and Adjunct English Instructor

    Received Award for Teaching Excellence and taught the following courses: 095 Fundamentals of Composition, 101 Introduction to College Writing, 102 College Writing and Research, 224 American Writers: The Twentieth Century: "Writing as Resistance," 243 Women's Literature: "Twentieth-Century Novelists," 263 American Novels: "Working in America," 277 Introduction to Ethnic Minority Literature: African American Literature: "Spirituality, Religion, and Healing in African American Literature" and "Friendship as Lifeline in African American Literature," 329 Film and the Novel: "Oprah as Sethe?!"

Education

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Bachelor’s Degree

    Philosophy and Psychology, Certificate in Women's Studies

  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Master’s Degree

    English: Modern Studies
    Master's Thesis: "A Wild Goose Chase: Orlando's Provisional and Arduous Assemblage" (focused on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando)

  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

    English: Literary Studies
    Dissertation: Valuing Female Friendship: The Ethics of Intimacy in American Women's Novels from 1870-1990

  • Upper Iowa University

    English Instructor


    Received Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005 and taught the following courses: 101 Basic Composition, 352 Best Sellers, and 365 Women and Literature

  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

    Teaching Assistant and Adjunct English Instructor


    Received Award for Teaching Excellence and taught the following courses: 095 Fundamentals of Composition, 101 Introduction to College Writing, 102 College Writing and Research, 224 American Writers: The Twentieth Century: "Writing as Resistance," 243 Women's Literature: "Twentieth-Century Novelists," 263 American Novels: "Working in America," 277 Introduction to Ethnic Minority Literature: African American Literature: "Spirituality, Religion, and Healing in African American Literature" and "Friendship as Lifeline in African American Literature," 329 Film and the Novel: "Oprah as Sethe?!"