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. 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 community service learning and activism in the writing classroom and on the ethics of university-community collaborations. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled, Resistances, Interruptions, Elisions: Women, Writing, and Incarceration with DePaul University Professor, Ann Folwell Stanford.

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