Dr. Jan Osborn
- Education:
- Spring Arbor University, Bachelor of Arts
University of Michigan, Master of Arts
University of California, Riverside, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Jan Osborn is Associate Professor in the Department of English where she teaches in the Rhetoric and Composition Studies program, the Wilkinson College “Engaging the World” First-Year Foundations program. She is an alum of the University of Michigan and the University of California, Riverside. Her book Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom was published in 2015. Her scholarly interests include cultural, critical, and feminist rhetorics. Prior to Chapman University, Dr. Osborn taught English in secondary public schools in Los Angeles and Orange counties, in community colleges in Michigan and California, and at State Prison Southern Michigan prior to coming to Chapman. She is the director of the Chapman University/Orange High School Literacies Partnership and the Orange County Literary Society Collaborative, engaging with high school and community college students from diverse ethnic, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds. Born and raised in Michigan and entering higher education at the community college, Jan is strongly connected to her rural, working-class roots.
(Pictured above: Jan with Harper Lee, her campus companion)
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Blaylock, James P., Doug Dechow, Anna Leahy, and Jan Osborn. “The Program Beyond the Program.”What We Talk about When We Talk about Creative Writing. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, July 2016: 22-40.
- Osborn, Jan. Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.