Professor of Humanities and Director of Writing at New York Institute of Technology
About
Jennifer Griffiths has taught college writing and literature courses since 1996. Prior to arriving at New York Institute of Technology, she held full-time teaching positions at the US Coast Guard Academy/Leadership Development Center and Marymount College of Fordham University. Dr. Griffiths has served as a writing program administrator since 2003 in three different institutional contexts. As a scholar, Griffiths has focused on the interdisciplinary field of trauma studies, specifically in relation to African American literature.
Current Work:
Dr. Griffiths' current book project, At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era, is in press at U of Mississippi Press and focuses on representations of Black artists as adolescents as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. Through their creative experiments, they capture and convey the complex experience of this specific generation’s young people, paying considered attention to what it means to be deemed “at risk” and narrowed within the scope of a sociological problem all while trying to expand the horizons of creative liberation.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Trauma, race, gender
