Jen Shook is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry at Grinnell College, where she teaches courses in English, theatre, and humanities. She holds a PhD in English and a Graduate Certificate in book history/book arts from the University of Iowa, as well as interdisciplinary humanities degrees from Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago. She has taught at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and Columbia College Chicago, among other places. She worked as a dramaturg, director, and theatre producer in Chicago, where she founded Caffeine Theatre—a company that mined the poetic tradition to explore social questions (2002-2012). Her current work explores the relationship between performance, literature, and digital culture, particularly in promoting Native American artists’ reworkings of historical commemorations. Jen sits on the editorial board of Imagining America’s multimedia journal PUBLIC. More about her at http://www.jenshook.com/ and @poeticsheretic

poetry, American drama, Native American performance and media, dance, puppets, digital humanities, social practice, performance as research, memorial/commemoration

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