Faculty | Jennifer Meta Robinson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Culture
Director of C122, Interpersonal Communication

Email: jenmetar@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-4607
Office: 275

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2001

Background

Jennifer Robinson is senior lecturer and director of C122 Interpersonal Communication. She has a PhD in English from Indiana University and most recently directed Campus Instructional Consulting, the award-winning teaching center at IU. In addition to C122, she teaches undergraduate courses in performance and ethnography, including in environmental communication. She is author of The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community (Indiana University Press 2007) with Jeff Hartenfeld and co-editor of a forthcoming book about teaching environmental literacy. She is the primary investigator for a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to develop a model interdisciplinary approach that prepares graduate students to be reflective teachers who base their teaching on appropriate learning theory and revise it based on evidence of student learning. She was elected president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in 2008.

Courses Recently Taught

Interpersonal Communication (C122)
Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment (C204)
Sense of Place in Narrative and Ethnography (C313)

Publication Highlights

Reynolds, H., E. Brondizio, and J.M. Robinson, eds. Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum. Under contract with Indiana University Press. Forthcoming 2009.
Robinson, J. M., A. Wise, and T. Duffy. “Authentic Design and Collaboration: Involving University Faculty as Clients in Project-Based Learning Technology Design Courses.” In Educating Learning Technology Designers. Eds. C. DiGiano and S. Goldman. Allyn and Bacon. Forthcoming 2009.
Robinson, J. M., and J. A. Hartenfeld. The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Nelson, C. E., and J. M. Robinson. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Change in Higher Education.” In Realities of Educational Change: Interventions to Promote Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Eds. L. Hunt, A. Bromage, and B. Tomkinson. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2006.
Ochoa, T., and J. M. Robinson. “Revisiting Consensus: Collaborative Learning Dynamics during a Problem-Based Learning Activity in Education.” Journal of Teacher Education and Special Education 28 (2005): 10-20.
Robinson, J. M. “Multiple Sites of Authority.” In Campus Progress: Supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ed. B. Cambridge. Washington, D.C.: AAHE, 2004. 125-128.
Robinson, J. M., and C. E. Nelson. “Institutionalizing and Diversifying a Vision of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 14 (2003): 95-118.
Robinson, J. M. “A Question of Authority: Dealing With Disruptive Students.” In Our Own Voice: Graduate Students Teach Writing. Eds. T. Good and L. Warshauer. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Robinson, J. M. “‘If Love Could Have Saved You’: Newspaper Obituary Poems.” Midwestern Folklore 19 (Fall 1993): 99-112.

Selected Honors and Awards

Nonfiction Finalist, 2008 Best Books of Indiana Competition, Indiana Center for the Book.
Primary Investigator, “The Indiana University Collegium on Inquiry in Action," Graduate Student-Faculty Inquiry Communities on Learning and Teaching," Teagle Foundation, $150,000, 2008-2011.
President-Elect, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008.
Campus cluster leader for Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership Program, 2006-2009.
Theodore M. Hesburgh Faculty Development Award for Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Initiative, sponsored by Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College (TIAA-CREF) Retirement Equities Fund, $30,000, 2003.
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University, 1998.
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University, 1997.