Dr. Jan Osborn
- Education:
- Spring Arbor University, Bachelor of Arts
University of Michigan, Master of Arts
University of California, Riverside, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Jan Osborn is Associate Professor in the Department of English where she teaches in the Rhetoric and Composition Studies program, the Wilkinson College “Engaging the World” First-Year Foundations program. She is an alum of the University of Michigan and the University of California, Riverside. Her book Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom was published in 2015. Her scholarly interests include cultural, critical, and feminist rhetorics. Prior to Chapman University, Dr. Osborn taught English in secondary public schools in Los Angeles and Orange counties, in community colleges in Michigan and California, and at State Prison Southern Michigan prior to coming to Chapman. She is the director of the Chapman University/Orange High School Literacies Partnership and the Orange County Literary Society Collaborative, engaging with high school and community college students from diverse ethnic, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds. Born and raised in Michigan and entering higher education at the community college, Jan is strongly connected to her rural, working-class roots.
(Pictured above: Jan with Harper Lee, her campus companion)
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Osborn, Jan M. "General Education for the Future: Eliminating the Liberal Arts/Professional Divide for Intellectual Resilience and Courage." General Education and Citizen, No. 5. General Education Research Institute, Seoul, Korea. 5 January 2022. ISSN: 2712-6892.
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Miharia, Akash, Jan Osborn, and Bart J. Wilson. "The Symbolic Work of Prices." The Review of Austrian Economics. 2 June 2022.
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Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson, Mitchell Briggs, Alison M. Lee, and Alec Moss. “A Theory of Sociality, Morality, and Monsters: Adam Smith and Mary Shelley.” Adam Smith Review, Vol 13. Spring 2021.
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Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson, and Gus P. Grandinger. "Commerce Unbound: A Modern Promethean Story." The Miller Upton Forum, Vol. IX (October 2017): 46-59.
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Barnard, Ian, and Jan Osborn. "Epistemology Shock: English Teacher Confronts Science. CEA Forum. Summer/Fall 2017.
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Blaylock, James P., Doug Dechow, Anna Leahy, and Jan Osborn. “The Program Beyond the Program.”What We Talk about When We Talk about Creative Writing. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, July 2016: 22-40.
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Osborn, Jan. Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson, and Bradley R. Sherwood. "Conduct in Narrativized Trust Games." Southern Economic Journal 81.3 (January 2015): 562-597.
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McNenny, Gerri, and Jan Osborn. “Discourses of Hope in Sustainability Education: A Critical Analysis of Leading Sustainability Advocates.” The Journal of Sustainability Education 10 (November 2015).