Dr. Jennifer Thompson received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Irvine, and she is currently an assistant professor of humanities at Embry-Riddle University, where she teaches creative writing, mythology, world literature, and Holocaust studies. She has published poems in numerous journals, including the Absinthe Literary Review, the Lilliput Review, the California Quarterly, and Eclipse. Her blog address is http://revoltandresignation.blogspot.com. Her teaching specializations are in creative writing (poetry); feminist theory; 19th and 20th century British and Continental philosophy and critical theory; Holocaust literature.

Dr. Jennifer Thompson's Creative Publications

Produced signed, limited edition artist’s book, The World of Stone, with Florida artist Michael Siegenthaler. Email Dr. Jennifer Thompson to inquire about purchasing her limited edition chapbook.
“The Book of Nature, Illegible.” Hyms to the Outrageous: An American Poetry Sampler. Forthcoming from Pudding House Publications, 2005.
“Wrench Open.” October 2004. The Lilliput Review.
“Naming God.” October 2004. Curbside Review.
“Van Gogh at St. Remy.” Vol. 30 No. 3. California Quarterly.
“From Lapith to Centaur,” “On Waterloo,” and “Variation on a Villanelle.” August 2004. The Real Eight View.
“On the Pier in Cayucos” and “Flesh and Word,” July 2004. Tar Wolf Review.
“Annotations to Marilyn Manson’s The Last Show on Earth.” Fall 2004. Rogue Scholars.
“Egg-Throat.” Issue #2, Fall 2004 Sunspinner.
“To Do Something Very Common in My Own Way.” Fall 2004. Eclipse.
“On Lucius Junius Brutus,” Summer 2004. Mindfire. http://www.mindfirerenew.com/.
“Another Love Poem,” “Applied Dialectics” and “Catherine Wheel.” Spring 2004.
The Absinthe Literary Review.
“Bone.” March 2004. Gin Bender.
“Dear Cowboy.” Forthcoming. Poetry Midwest.
“I Give.” Forthcoming. Poetry Motel.
“After Malebranche: Epiphany” and “Tradition and Individual Talent.” Winter and Spring 2003, respectively. Erete’s Bloom.
“On Job.” Spring 2003. Gin Bender.
“Muse, Patron, Fury,” “Wheat Fields,” “Artemis and Acteon,” and “Love Match.” February 2003. Delirium. www.deliriumjournal.org.
“Redemption.” Winter 2002. The Laughing Dog.
“Procne to Itys,” “Tereus,” and “That Pit.” Winter 2002. Absinthe Literary Review.
“The Book of Nature, Illegible.” Fall 2002. The Laughing Dog.
“On Lucretia.” Fall 2001. Erete’s Bloom.
“Born-Again Virgin” and “Night Laughs and I Want to Run (Dr. J’s Mix).” Summer 2001. nasty.
“Love Poem.” Spring 2001. Erete’s Bloom.
“Sun in Pisces” and “An Aesthetics.” Spring 2001 and Summer 2001, respectively. The Laughing Dog.
“Sun in Capricorn” and “A Response to Will.” Winter 2001. Erete’s Bloom.
“Thank You for the Flowers.” Winter 2000. The Laughing Dog.
“You Cling to My Legs.” First Honorable Mention. Fall 2000. Arizona State Poetry Society Contest.
“The World of Stone” and “St. Valentine’s Day.” Spring 2000 and Fall 2000. Erete’s Bloom.

Public Readings

Women’s History Month. Embry-Riddle University. March 2005. Solo reading.
Poetry and Sexuality Conference. University of Stirling, Scotland. July 2004. Featured reader.
Lamplight Reading Series. July 2001, January 2001, and June 2000. Featured poet.
Writing the Self Conference. California State University, Northridge. March 2001.
Make a Date with a Poet. June 1999. Featured poet.
"Manifesto.” Boundaries in Question. University of California, Berkeley. 1991.

Critical Publications

Mandrake and Poppy. Poetry chapbook.
Naming God. Poetry chapbook; under consideration at several small presses.

In addition to her many publications and creative manuscripts, she has written one critical manuscript called Performing Violence: The Rhetoric of Rape. Currently querying academic presses.

Additional Critical publications and Presentations

“Irony: A Few Simple Definitions.” Forthcoming, November 2005. Critical theory panel, PAMLA Annual Conference.
“On the Production of Thneads.” March 2005. Art and politics panel, PCA/ACA Annual Conference.
“Poetry and Politics.” November 2004. SAMLA Annual Conference.
“Why Poetry Is Sex and Sex Is Poetry.” July 2004. University of Stirling, Scotland Poetry and Sexuality Conference.
“Accept This Twofold Consolation, You Fainthearted Creatures: St. Augustine’s Rhetoric of Rape.” August 2004. SIMILE Journal, University of Toronto.
“Blogs and the Creative Writing Classroom.” April 7, 2004. PCA/ACA Annual Conference.
“St. Augustine’s Transformation of Stuprum.” March 5, 2004. Kansas State University’s Annual Cultural Studies Conference.
“Web Logs and Composition.” Minnesota State Colleges and University Composition Conference. Oct. 16-7, 2003.
“Augustine’s Transformation of Stuprum.” June 14, 2003. University of New England’s Conference on Law and Humanities.
“Politics and the Poet.” March 29, 2003. Virtual presentation at Midwestern Conference on Film, Literature and Language.
“’Guilty’/’Not Guilty’? A Story of Suffering.” March 2001. UC Irvine Works in Progress Series.
“On the Craft of Writing Poetry.” Summer 2000. Erete’s Bloom.
"Performativity and Sexual Violence." Violence, Incorporated. 1998. Kansas State University.
"Taylored Minds." Forum on the Future of Humanities Education. 1997. UC Irvine.
"Exploration: City Site," 1991. San Francisco Arts Commission exhibition catalog.

Peer-reviewer for SIMILE Journal, University of Toronto.

Professional journalist from 1986-1990, with multiple publications.

Awards and Fellowships

Poetry 2004 International Merit Award, Atlanta Review.
Nora Folkenflik Award for teaching of English literature, UC Irvine, 1999
Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, UC Irvine, 1998
Program in Film Studies, UC Irvine, 1998. Working with Professor Rhona Berenstein, discovered primary and secondary material on physiognomy, craniometry and criminal anthropology. Produced 200-page course reader with rare primary sources.
Summer Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, UC Irvine, 1997

Professional Affiliations

Modern Languages Association
South Atlantic Modern Languages Association
Florida State Poetry Society
Tomoka Poets (FSPS Daytona-area branch)
American Popular Culture Association