JENNIFER SEAGRAVE

Before coming to University of Utah, Jennifer earned a Bachelor's Degree at UCLA and a Master's Degree at Humboldt State University. She taught beginning Writing at LACCD's Harbor College and Orange Coast College before being hired at the University of Phoenix, where she taught First Year Sequence Courses for 12 years (2003-2015).

Jennifer has taught at the University of Utah since July 2004. She began as a writing and communication instructor in the CLEAR Program (Communication, Literacy, Ethics, and Research), teaching in the Departments of Civil and Environmental, Electric and Computer, Chemical, Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering. In 2013, she completed her PhD in British and American Literature, focusing on Modernist and Religious Drama, 1850-1`950. Her dissertation is titled Modern Saints' Plays: A History of the Genre.   

Continuing her work with students in the College of Engineering, in July 2013 she became an Associate Instructor in Undergraduate Studies' LEAP Program, teaching Engineering LEAP. She was made Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in 2017 and Associate Professor (Lecturer) in 2022. 

Besides Beginning Writing, Ethics, and Communication, Jennifer has taught Introduction to Film, Creative Writing, Humanities Survey I & II, Business Writing, Drama Survey: Shakespeare to Shaw, American Women's Autobiography, Introduction to the English Major, and Introduction to Critical Theory.