Jennifer Ross

Dr. Jennifer Ross is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, of Digital Humanities and Writing jointly appointed between Woodsworth College and the Transitional Year Programme at the University of Toronto. Jennifer’s research centers on contemporary American literature, digital humanities, literary and cultural theory, and critical disaster and terrorism studies. Her first book, Insurgents on the Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, and Literary Dissent on America’s Gulf Coast (SUNY Press, under contract) explores forms of political resistance put forward in literature and film produced after the flooding of New Orleans in 2005.  New research in American Ouroboros examines counterinsurgency/ counterterrorism and the use of private military contractors in U.S. domestic governance and policing. Jennifer is also a co-investigator on the Beyond Disinformation research project, examining authoritarian tactics for shaping information orders in the 21st century. In 2020-2021, Jennifer was awarded the JHI/CLIR Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship. From 2021-2022, Jennifer then served as the Educational Research and Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow for the Failure: Learning in Progress research project out of University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research can be found in the volumes Liberal Disorder: Emergency Politics, Populist Uprisings, and Digital Dictatorships (Routledge 2020) Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Year of Literacy and Cultural Intersections at NeMLA (Vernon Press, 2023), and in the journals Imagining SoTL: Selections from the Banff Symposium (2022), the International Journal of Educational Research (2022), and Currents in Teaching and Learning (2023).