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Jennifer Cognard-Black
BornJanuary 8, 1969
Fort Worth, Texas
Other namesJ. Annie MacLeod
EducationThe Ohio State University (1999)

Iowa State University (1994)

Nebraska Wesleyan University (1991)
Occupation(s)Professor, Writer, Editor
SpouseAndrew Cognard-Black
ChildrenKatharine Cognard-Black

Jennifer Cognard-Black (born January 8, 1969) is an American short story writer, essayist, feminist scholar, and professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a public honors college. A two-time Fulbright scholar to The Netherlands[1] and Slovenia[2] as well as the 2020 winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University,[3] Cognard-Black teaches the novel, Victorian adaptations, women writers, and the literatures of food in addition to workshops in creative nonfiction and the short story.[4] She has produced three lecture series for The Great Courses and Audible.com and has published a critical monograph, a writing textbook, and three co-edited collections of fiction, poetry, and essays.

Under the pseudonym J. Annie MacLeod, she publishes short stories and poetry in journals such as Story Magazine, So To Speak, Versal, EcoTheo, The South Dakota Review, The Cream City Review, Literary Mama, PoetryMemoirStory, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[4] Recognition for her creative work includes three Pushcart Prize nominations, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for fiction,[5] and a Creative Fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.[6]

Early Life

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Jennifer Cognard-Black was born in Fort Worth, Texas on January 8, 1969 and graduated from Lincoln East High School in 1987. She earned a dual degree in Music and English from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1991,[7] where she graduated summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Kappa Phi.[7] Cognard-Black then studied under Jane Smiley at Iowa State University, graduating with honors in 1994 with a master's in fiction and essay writing.[7] In 1999, she received her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century women’s literature and feminist literary theory from The Ohio State University,[7] studying under short-story-writer Lee K. Abbott, the feminist rhetorician Dr. Andrea Lunsford, and American women writers scholar Dr. Susan Williams.[4]

Personal Life

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Since 1992, Cognard-Black has been married to her college sweetheart Dr. Andrew Cognard-Black, a professor of Sociology.[8] They have one daughter.

Career

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Cognard-Black has been teaching at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a public liberal arts college in St. Mary’s City, Maryland, since 2000.[7] There she has thrice been awarded the Faculty-Student Life Award as well as three Mellon Foundation grants supporting course development and learning initiatives.[7]

Cognard-Black is also the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar appointments. The first in 2012 took her to the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia to teach the American novel and creative writing.[1] In 2020, she spent the second as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in American Culture at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she taught a course in American food narratives and social justice.[2]

In 2020, Cognard-Black won the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University,[3] considered an “American version of the Nobel Prize” for teaching.[9] This award honors professors of excellence across disciplines, stimulates discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and encourages departments and institutions to value their own great teachers. It was created by Robert Foster Cherry, who earned his A.B. from Baylor University in 1929 and enrolled in the Baylor Law School in 1932, passing the Texas State Bar Examination the following year. "With a deep appreciation for how his life had been changed by significant teachers, he made an exceptional bequest to establish the Cherry Award program to recognize excellent professors and to bring them in direct contact with Baylor University students. The first award was made in 1991 and has since been awarded biennially."[10]

As the 2020 recipient, Cognard-Black received a prize of $250,000 and taught in residence at Baylor University for the spring of 2021.[11] During that semester, she offered an upper-level seminar in the literatures of food, “Books that Cook,” and a workshop in creative nonfiction writing, “Moments of Truth."[12] Cognard-Black also gave public lectures,[13] workshops, and a creative reading;[14] participated in a research panel; helped to organize a Summit on Empathetic Teaching with Baylor's Academy of Teaching and Learning;[15] and engaged in experiential and service learning projects with her students in partnership with the World Hunger Relief Farm,[16] the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty,[16] and the Martin Museum of Art.[17]

In her writing career, Cognard-Black has published articles on feminist theory, food narratives, and Victorian literature in such places as Ms. Magazine[18][19] and The Huffington Post.[20] She has also appeared on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR to discuss recipes as containers of individual and national memory[21] and has offered “Edible Essay” workshops for groups, including the Sandy Spring Museum,[22] the Iowa Writers’ House,[23] and Revolve, an arts and performance space in Asheville, NC.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in such journals as Story Magazine,[24] The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,[25] and Another Chicago Magazine.[26] Cognard-Black has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, most recently for “Daughter Mother Daughter,” as well as a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction in 2013,[5] and she has been selected as an artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts,[27] the Good Contrivance Farm Writer’s Retreat,[4] and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,[4] for which she won a creative fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.[6] Cognard-Black is currently represented by DeFiore and Company.[4]

Her first book, Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, debuted in 2004.[28] She then co-wrote a writing textbook, Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the Advanced Student, with her mother, Dr. Anne Cognard,[29] and has co-edited three anthologies of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or poetry. She is best known for Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal, published with NYU Press in 2014 and co-edited with Dr. Melissa Goldthwaite.[30] Her most recent book is From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines, a collection of creative nonfiction essays by women writers with MSU Press in 2016,[31] which won a gold medal in the national Independent Publisher Book Awards contest.[32]

In 2016, the first of her lecture series with The Great Courses was released, a course on essay-writing called Becoming a Great Essayist.[33] In 2019, she produced a second series with TGC on the craft and art of short fiction, titled Great American Short Stories: A Guide for Readers and Writers.[34] Her third series, Books that Cook: Food and Fiction, was contracted with TGC and released as an Audible Original on Audible.com in 2021.[35]

Awards

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Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ a b c “Jennifer Cognard-Black.” Fulbright Scholar Program, Institute of International Education, cies.org/grantee/jennifer-cognard-black.
  2. ^ a b c “Jennifer Cognard-Black.” Fulbright Scholar Program, Institute of International Education, cies.org/grantee/jennifer-cognard-black-0.
  3. ^ a b c “2020 Award Recipient.” Robert Foster Cherry Award | Baylor University, www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/index.php?id=966394.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j “Bio & C.V. - Jennifer Cognard.” Jennifer Cognard-Black, www.jennifercognard-black.com/bio-and-cv.
  5. ^ a b c “Cognard-Black Wins Maryland State Arts Council Award.” SMCM Newsroom, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 7 Apr. 2016, www.smcm.edu/news/2013/03/cognard-black-wins-maryland-state-arts-council-award/.
  6. ^ a b c “Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Maryland 2018 Program Year.” Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, July 2017, www.midatlanticarts.org/wp-content/uploads/MD-State-Activity-Sheet-2018.pdf.
  7. ^ a b c d e f “Directory.” St. Marys College of Maryland, inside.smcm.edu/directory/jennifer-cognard-black.
  8. ^ “Andrew J. Cognard-Black.” St. Marys College of Maryland, inside.smcm.edu/directory/andrew-j-cognard-black.
  9. ^ Wabash College. “He Has Touched so Many Hearts...” Wabash Magazine, Wabash College, www.wabash.edu/magazine/index.cfm?news_id=3604.
  10. ^ “Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.” Cherry Award, Baylor University, www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/.
  11. ^ Eckert, Eric M. “Finalists Selected for Baylor's $250,000 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.” Media and Public Relations | Baylor University, Baylor University, 28 Mar. 2019, www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=208314.
  12. ^ “Baylor University English Department Spring 2021.” Baylor University, Baylor University, 2021, www.baylor.edu/english/doc.php/366380.pdf.
  13. ^ “Jennifer Cognard-Black.” Robert Foster Cherry Award | Baylor University, www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/index.php?id=978615.
  14. ^ “JCB Creative Arts Experience (CAE) Reading for Baylor University.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 Apr. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DeLkZLIDFg.
  15. ^ “ATL Summit on Great Teaching.” Robert Foster Cherry Award | Baylor University, www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/index.php?id=978642.
  16. ^ a b craig_nash. “Cherry Award Professor's Students Take a Deep Dive into Food Insecurity Work at Baylor and in Waco.” Setting the Table for Systemic Change, Baylor University, 16 May 2021, blogs.baylor.edu/thi/2021/05/16/cherry-award-professors-students-take-a-deep-dive-into-food-insecurity-work-at-baylor-and-in-waco/.
  17. ^ “Word + Image.” Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/index.php?id=977984.
  18. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Extreme Makeover: Feminist Edition. How Cosmetic Medicine Co-opts Feminism.” Ms. Magazine Summer 2007: 46–49.
  19. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Feminist Food Revolution:  From Farms to Community Gardens to Restaurants, Women are Taking Food Back into Their Own Hands.” Ms. Magazine Summer 2010: 36–39.
  20. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “10 Delicious Books that Cook” (with Melissa Goldthwaite). The Huffington Post 2 November 2014. (article)
  21. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Literatures of Food.” Kojo Nnamdi Radio Show. 24 September 2014. (radio interview)
  22. ^ “Professor Cognard-Black Leads Workshops at Sandy Spring Museum.” St. Mary's College of Maryland, 18 Aug. 2015, www.smcm.edu/english/2015/08/professor-cognard-black-leads-workshops-at-sandy-spring-museum/.
  23. ^ “Our Instructors.” Iowa Writers' House, www.iowawritershouse.com/our-instructors.
  24. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Daughter Mother Daughter.” Story Magazine April 2021. 83–89. (short story)
  25. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Gasoline.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2004: 130–141. (short story)
  26. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Fairytale.” Another Chicago Magazine  42 (Spring 2003): 104–117. (short story)
  27. ^ “Jennifer Cognard-Black.” Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, 5 May 2008, www.khncenterforthearts.org/resident/jennifer-cognard-black.
  28. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Routledge, 2004.
  29. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the Advanced Student (co-written with Anne Cognard). Kendall/Hunt Press, 2006.
  30. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (co-edited with Melissa Goldthwaite). New York University Press, 2014.
  31. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines (co-edited with Joyce Dyer and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls). Michigan State University Press, 2016.
  32. ^ a b “2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results.” Independent Publisher, 2016, www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2045.
  33. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Becoming a Great Essayist. A series of 24 lectures on how to write versatile and powerful essays, including public intellectual pieces, personal essays. The Great Courses, 2016.
  34. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Great American Short Stories. A series of 24 lectures considering the history, craft, and art of this distinctive national genre for booklovers and writers alike. The Great Courses, 2019.
  35. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Books that Cook: Food and Fiction. A series of 10 lectures about reading, writing, and eating the literatures of food—particularly novels with recipes. Audible Original, 2021.
  36. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by Women Authors, 1860–1920 (co-edited with Elizabeth MacLeod Walls). University of Iowa Press, 2006.
  37. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Static.” The Cream City Review 24.1 (Fall 1999): 59–77. (short story)
  38. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Very Short Story Begins on a Farm.” South Dakota Review 38.2 (Summer 2000): 29–31. (short story, finalist for Glimmer Train 1999 Short Fiction Award)
  39. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Cold Climate.” Briar Cliff Review 13 (Spring 2001): 54–59. (short story)
  40. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A La Cart.” Roanoke Review 27 (Spring 2002): 71–92. (short story)
  41. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Meiosis.” Literary Mama Sept. 2007. (short story)
  42. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A New Love Poem.” Pisgah Review 3.1 (Spring 2008): 103–108. (short story)
  43. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Blink.” So To Speak  Summer-Fall 2009: 71–76. (short story, finalist for So To Speak 2009 fiction award)
  44. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Gifts.” Assembly Journal June 2010. (short story)
  45. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Double.” Versal: The Literary and Art Annual 10 (2012): 58–59. (short story)
  46. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Burn.” Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. Eds. Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa Goldthwaite. New York, NY:  New York University Press, 2014. 314–324. (short story)
  47. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “American Gothic.” PoemMemoirStory 14 (2015): 125–137. (short story)
  48. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Clean Shot.” Valparaiso Fiction Review 4.2 (Summer 2015): 34–39. (short story)
  49. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Allegro con Agitato.” The Ohio State Alumni Magazine July/August 1995: 20–23. (essay)
  50. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Lip Service.” Mama PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and the Academy. Ed. Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant. Piscataway, NY:  Rutgers UP, 2008. 129–135. (essay)
  51. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Hot Thing.” From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines. Eds. Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls. East Lansing, MI:  Michigan State UP, 2016. 78–97. (essay)
  52. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Now of Our Togetherness.” How We Are 7 October 2020. (essay)
  53. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Letter, Written by Hand, from Quarantine.” Ecotheo Review 11 March 2021. (poem)
  54. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Garrison Keillor’s Wobegon Heroes.” Popular Culture Review 6.1 (February 1995):107–119.
  55. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “‘I Said Nothing’: The Rhetoric of Silence and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 13.1 (Spring 2001): 40–60.
  56. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Telegraphs.” Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Ed. Will Kaufman and Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson. Oxford, England: ABC-Clio, Inc., 2005. 951.
  57. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Food and Drink” and “Professionalism.” American Literature in Historical Context. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Gale, 2006. 391–395, 963–968.
  58. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Exporting American Beauty: Plastic Surgery and Worldwide Acceptance.” Beauty and the Breast: A Feminist Blog 30 October 2007. (article)
  59. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Books that Cook: Teaching Food and Food Literature in the English Classroom” (with Melissa Goldthwaite). College English 70.4 (March 2008): 417–432.
  60. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Sue Johnson’s Curious Cabinets.” Moore Adventures in Wonderland: An Exhibition by Sue Johnson on Lewis Carroll and Marianne Moore. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum and Library, 2009. (article)
  61. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Lady Byron Vindicated and the Rise of Professional Realism.” American Literary Realism 36.2 (Winter 2004): 93–119.
  62. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Lady Byron Vindicated and the Rise of Professional Realism.” Reprinted in Beyond Uncle Tom’s Cabin, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Monika Mueller, Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011. 53–74.
  63. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Where are the Women in Contemporary Food Studies? Ruminations on Teaching Gender and Race in the Food Studies Classroom” (with Psyche Williams-Forson). Feminist Studies 40.2 (2014): 304–332.
  64. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Beautiful Monster: Plastic Surgery as Cultural Metaphor.” Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Christine Adams and Tracy Adams. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 229–249.
  65. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Embodied Rhetoric of Recipes.” Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics. Ed. Melissa Goldthwaite. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. 65–88.
  66. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Golden Ladle and the White Mammy Figure in Post-War America.” The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, Medicine 30 October 2018.
  67. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Literary Feast: The Making of a Thanksgiving Meal” (with Melissa Goldthwaite). From the Square: NYU Press Blog. November 2018. (blog post)
  68. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Feminist Foodies.” Feminist Magazine Radio Show. 18 May 2011. (radio interview)
  69. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “New Views on the Present, the Past, and the Future: Becoming a Great Essayist.” The Torch: The Great Courses Podcast. Episode 49. June 2016. (podcast interview)
  70. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “So Many Teachers Go Unrecognized” by Susan Svrluga. The Washington Post 31 January 2020. (print interview)
  71. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Jennifer Cognard-Black: Empathetic Teaching.” Professors Talk Pedagogy: The Academy for Teaching and Learning. Baylor University. Season 1, Episode 4. March 2021. (podcast interview)
  72. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Rhetorical Approach to Literature for Composition: Advanced Placement Lessons” (with Anne Cognard). Prentice Hall School Division. (teacher’s guide)
  73. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “WGSX 200:  Introduction to Women Studies.” Introducing Women's and Gender Studies: A Teaching Resources Collection. National Women Studies Association. (teacher’s guide)
  74. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Books that Cook: A Teacher’s Guide.” New York University Press. September 2014. (teacher’s guide)
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