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Research Interests: Writing-to-learn pedagogies, composing with new media, faculty writers, civic engagement and student self-authorship

Keywords:
Civic Engagement, Faculty (Education), Higher education, Qualitative Research, Service learning, Writers retreats, Writing
Current projects:
Faculty Write Program. Focuses on faculty-as-writers and aims to reinvigorate commitments to writing and teaching writing at Duke. TWP Director of Duke's Language, Arts and Media Program (LAMP). The program will engage every first-year student in learning a broad range of communications skills for traditional and new media.
Recent Publications
  1. Ahern Dodson, J; Dufour, M, After the Writing Retreat Ends, Inside Higher Ed (2024) [abs].
  2. Ahern Dodson, J, Stuck in Your Writing? Invite Readers into Your Writing Process., Inside Higher Ed (August, 2023) [abs].
  3. Ahern-Dodson, J; Dufour, M, The Productivity Trap: Why We Need a New Model of Faculty Writing Support, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, vol. 55 no. 1 (January, 2023), pp. 24-30, Informa UK Limited [doi[abs].
  4. Ahern Dodson, J, Supporting Faculty as Writers Supports Students, Inside Higher Ed (July, 2022), Inside Higher Ed [abs].
  5. Ahern-Dodson, J; Dufour, M, Supporting Faculty as Writers and Teachers: An Integrative Approach to Educational Development, To Improve the Academy, vol. 40 no. 1 (2021), University of Michigan Library [doi[abs].