FACULTY

Tobi Jacobi

Assistant Professor.B.A., English Education, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.M.A., English (Creative Writing), University of Illinois at Chicago. Ph.D., Composition and Cultural Rhetoric (Composition and Literacy Studies), Syracuse University.

A specialist in community literacy studies, Professor Jacobi teaches courses in argument, public writing, composition theory, feminist theory and methodology, critical pedagogy, and literacy theory. She is the co-director of the Center for Community Literacy, Research and Outreach in the Department of English at Colorado State University. She also serves as the director of the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) program and Rhetoric and Composition program.  Her recent research focuses on understanding the complexities of moving adult literacy beyond the GED, the ethics of community-university relationships, and incarcerated women writers as activists. In addition to co-editing a special issue of Reflections: A Journal for Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy on prison literacy, she has published essays on prison writing, community service learning and activism in the writing classroom and the ethics of university-community collaborations in journals such as English Journal, Community Literacy Journal, and The Journal of Correctional Education. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled, Word by Word: Women, Writing, and Incarceration in the United States with DePaul University Professor, Ann Folwell Stanford.

email address: tobi.jacobi@colostate.edu
phone number: 970.491.3344