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YOUNG, JENNIFER, Assistant Professor (2002).

Education: B.A., Douglass College of Rutgers University (1997), M.A., City College of City University of New York (1999), Ph.D., Howard University (2004).

Interests: Early writers of the African Diaspora (pre-1865); Contemporary Journalism and Mass Media, Jazz and Hip-Hop as literature; Creative Writing (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction).

Selected Works: "'We sweep the liquid plain:' Wheatley's Travel Poems about the Sea" (2004); Contributor, Included in English Studies: Learning Climates that Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity (2002).

Distinctions: H.O.P.E. (Hope's Outstanding Professor-Educator) Award (2008); PFF Fellow (Hope, 2002-03), Doctoral Scholar (Howard, 1999-2003), Summer Research Fellowship (Washington State, 2001), Lincoln Teaching Fellow (University of Nebraska, 2002).