Biography

Jennifer Smith Daniel is the Director of Learning & Writing Support Services. She is an alum of Queens. She holds an MA from UNC Charlotte in English Literature and a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from UNC Greensboro. Her areas of focus are writing pedagogies, inclusive teaching practices, multiliteracies, feminist rhetorics, and ecological assessment. She teaches in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric program of the English Department and the First Year Writing Program. Her scholarship has been published in the Community Literacy Journal, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Teaching Tips, and Tiny Teaching Stories: Restoring Your Tongue (MacMillan Learning Bits Blog). She is currently the Co-Chair for
the Southeastern Writing Center Association C.A.R.E. certification committee.

Supporting student writing and student voices is her first priority as a teacher. She enjoys working with students at the college level – particularly first-year students – because it is a time of discovery and trial. Many students are making choices for the first time without their normal support systems of friends and family, so the transition to university life can be challenging. She is passionate about helping students see the potential in themselves beyond how they were defined before they came to Queens. To her – every student can be successful.

She and her partner, Brian, live with three teenaged boys, two dogs, and a fish. They keep her hands busy and her heart full.

Education

Ph.D., Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.A., English, Queens University of Charlotte