Jessie Male
Part-time Faculty
jm3342@nyu.edu
(212) 992-3743
1 Wash Pl, Room 619
Office Hours
Monday Remote by Appointment
Tuesday Remote by Appointment
Wednesday Remote by Appointment
Thursday Remote by Appointment
Friday Remote by Appointment
B.A., Creative Writing, Oberlin College, 2005
M.F.A., Nonfiction, CUNY Hunter College, 2011
M.A., English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2016
Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University, 2021
Jessie Male received her PhD in English from The Ohio State University, where she completed her dissertation Disability Memoir: A Study in Pedagogy and Practice. Jessie's wider interests include access in online education, and popular culture studies. Her teaching is heavily influenced by disability studies pedagogy. Male's writing has appeared in Constellations, Guernica, Palaver Journal, BOMB Magazine, and other creative, academic, and interdisciplinary publications. Male is a 2011 Edward Albee fellow, an honor that supported work on her memoir. She previously taught literature and composition courses at Hunter College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and rescue dog.
Teaching and Research Interests
memoir; essay; disability studies; rhetoric and composition; cultural rhetorics; print and media culture; critical pedagogy
Courses
2022 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Representations of Disability in Contemporary Memoir
2021 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Representations of Disability in Contemporary Memoir
2021 Fall
First-Year Writing Seminar: Disability Arts & Culture
2020 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Representations of Disability in Contemporary Memoir
2020 Fall
First-Year Writing Seminar: Disability Arts & Culture
2019 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Representations of Disability in Contemporary Memoir
2019 Fall
