Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
The University of Iowa
3076 Main Library
Iowa City, IA 52242-1420
319.335.5716 (phone)
jennifer-burek-pierce@uiowa.edu
Education
• Ph.D., Communication and Culture, 1999, Indiana University, Dissertation title:
Women’s Rhetorical Activities After Suffrage: Advocacy for the Maternity and
Infancy Act of 1921
• M.L.S., School of Library & Information Science, 1999, Indiana University
• M.A., Literature in English, Gonzaga University
• B.S., Major: English, Minor: Journalism, 1988, Northern Arizona University
Memberships
American Library Association. 1998-Present.
Association of Library and Information Science Educators. 2003-Present.
Society for the History of Reading, Authorship, and Publishing. 2004-Present.
American Association for the History of Medicine. 2005-Present.
Scholarship
Publications or Creative Works
Refereed
Books:
1. Sex, Brains & Video Games: A Librarian’s Guide to Teens in the 21st Century.
American Library Association Editions: Chicago, Forthcoming (2007)
13. With A. Lang, P. Sias, and P. Chantrill. Tell Me a Story: Narrative Elaboration
and Memory for Television. Communication Reports 8.2 (1995): 102-10.
Pending Decisions
1. Summer Research Fellowship, International Programs, The University of Iowa,
2007
Grant Activities
1. For Our Children: Translating and Analyzing French Sexual Health Pamphlets
for Youth. Old Gold Fellowship, The University of Iowa. 2006. Amount
received. $6000
2. Trustees’ Teaching Award. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
2005. Amount received. $2500.
3. 2004-05 Center for Teaching and Learning Instructional Technology Scholar,
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on Instructional Technology Impact.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Office for Professional
Development Teaching and Learning Community Award. 2004-05. Amount
received. $500.
4. Surveying the Readership of Indiana Libraries: Information for Editorial
Decision-Making. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Office for
Professional Development General Grant-in-Aid. January 2004. Amount
received. $1600 grant.
Students Supervised
♣ External member, Ph.D. committee for Jessica DeSpain, “Steaming Across the
Pond with a Font of Type: Printing, Travel, and Transatlantic Literary Culture,”
The University of Iowa, Department of English/Center for the Book, 2006-
♣ Member, Ph.D. advisory committee for Carol Tilley, “’Comic books are
with us—for how long we do not know’: A History of the Intersection of
Comic Books and Youth Services Librarianship,” Indiana University
School of Library & Information Science 2005-2006
♣ Independent Study Director for Elizabeth Hull, research on contemporary
issues in the young adult novel, Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis, Fall 2004