Jessica Griffith

Assistant Professor
griffith@jsu.edu 

Dr. Griffith joined the English department in the Fall of 2024. Prior to her time at JSU, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, where she served as Assistant Director of the Professional and Technical Writing service course program. Her research interests focus on pedagogy, field wide research related to curriculum, and program evaluation within the field of technical and professional communication (TPC). Dr. Griffith’s current work examines the way instructors teach within the TPC service course in order to build a course that best supports students. Her scholarship has been published in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Business Communication Quarterly, as well as in an edited collection through the WAC Clearinghouse. Dr. Griffith loves a good documentary, true crime podcasts, and checking travel destinations off her never ending list.