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Jennifer Cognard-Black
Born (1969-01-08) January 8, 1969 (age 55)
Other namesJ. Annie MacLeod
Education
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][4] 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.[5] She has produced three lecture series for The Great Courses and Audible.com and has authored a critical monograph, a writing textbook, and four co-edited collections of fiction, poetry, and essays.

Under the pseudonym J. Annie MacLeod, she has published 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.[5] Recognition for her creative work includes three Pushcart Prize nominations,[5][6] a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for fiction, and a Creative Fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.[7][8]

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,[9] where she graduated summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Kappa Phi.[9] 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.[9] In 1999, she received her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century women’s literature and feminist literary theory from The Ohio State University.[5][9]

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.[10] 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.[9] There, she received twelve faculty development grants, two Internationalization and Teaching & Learning Grants (2011 and 2016), and thrice the Faculty-Student Life Award.[3]

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.[11] 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.[12]

In 2020, Cognard-Black won the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University.[3][4] The 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.[13]

As the 2020 recipient, Cognard-Black received a prize of $250,000 and taught in residence at Baylor University for the spring of 2021.[4][14] During that semester, she offered an upper-level seminar in the literatures of food, "Books that Cook,"[15] and a workshop in creative nonfiction writing, “Moments of Truth." Cognard-Black also gave public lectures,[16][17][18] workshops, and a creative reading;[19] participated in a research panel; helped to organize a Summit on Empathetic Teaching with Baylor's Academy of Teaching and Learning;[16] and engaged in experiential and service learning projects with her students in partnership with the World Hunger Relief Farm, the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and the Martin Museum of Art.[15][20]

In her writing career, Cognard-Black has published articles on feminist theory, food narratives, and Victorian literature in such places as Ms. Magazine,[21][22] where she sits on the committee of scholars[23], and The Huffington Post.[24] She has also appeared on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR to discuss recipes as containers of individual and national memory[25] and has offered “Edible Essay” workshops for groups, including the Sandy Spring Museum,[26][27] the Iowa Writers’ House,[28] and Revolve, an arts and performance space in Asheville, NC.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in such journals as Story Magazine,[29] The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,[30] and Another Chicago Magazine.[31] Cognard-Black has received three Pushcart Prize nominations[6], most recently for “Daughter Mother Daughter,”[29] as well as a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction in 2013,[7] and she has been selected as an artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts,[32] the Good Contrivance Farm Writer’s Retreat,[5] and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,[5] for which she won a creative fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.[8]

Her first book, Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, was published by Routledge in 2004.[33] She then co-wrote a writing textbook, Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the Advanced Student, with her mother, Dr. Anne Cognard,[34] and has co-edited four 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.[35] From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines, a collection of creative nonfiction essays by women writers with MSU Press in 2016,[36] won a gold medal in the National Independent Publisher Book Awards contest.[37] Her most recent collection, co-edited with Dr. Melissa Goldthwaite, is Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically, was published with NYU Press in 2024.[38]

In 2016, the first of her lecture series with The Great Courses was released, a course on essay-writing called Becoming a Great Essayist.[39] 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.[40] Her third series, Books that Cook: Food and Fiction, was contracted with TGC and released as an Audible Original on Audible.com in 2021.[41]

Awards

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  • Finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Award (1999)[42]
  • Norton T. Dodge Award for Creative and Scholarly Achievement (2005)[5]
  • So to Speak Fiction Award Finalist (2009)[43]
  • Nominations for the Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction (2001, 2007, 2021)[5]
  • Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Ljubljana (2012)[12]
  • Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction (2013)[7][44]
  • Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold (First) Prize for Anthologies (2016)[37][45]
  • Honorable Mention for the Glimmer Train Fiction Open Competition (2018)[5]
  • Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship (2018)[8][7][46]
  • Senior Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Amsterdam (2020)[11][47]
  • Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching (2020)[4][6][3]
  • Nebraska Wesleyan Alumni Achievement Award (2024)[48][49]
  • Exposition Review Second Place (2023)[50]

Bibliography

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Anthologies

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  • Cognard-Black, Jennifer; MacLeod Walls, Elizabeth, eds. (2006). Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by Women Authors. University of Iowa Press.
  • Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Goldthwaite, Melissa, eds. (2014). Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. New York University Press.
  • Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Dyer, Joyce; MacLeod Walls, Elizabeth, eds. (2016). From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines. Michigan State University Press.

Short stories

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Essays

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Poems

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Scholarly books

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Scholarly articles

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Blog posts

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Interviews

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Teachers guides

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  • “A Rhetorical Approach to Literature for Composition: Advanced Placement Lessons,” with Anne Cognard. Prentice Hall School Division[61]
  • “WGSX 200: Introduction to Women Studies.” Introducing Women's and Gender Studies: A Teaching Resources Collection[62]
  • “Books that Cook: A Teacher’s Guide.” New York University Press (2014)[63]

Lecture series

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References

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  1. ^ "The American Literatures of Food and Social Justice | Fulbright Scholar Program". Fulbright Scholars. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  2. ^ "Why I Believe in Literature | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  3. ^ a b c d "Jennifer Cognard-Black: 2020 Award Recipient". Baylor University. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e Svrluga, Susan (31 January 2020). "So many great teachers go unrecognized. But this professor just got a whopping award". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "J. Annie MacLeod". Poets & Writers. 2024-07-28. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  6. ^ a b c "Alumna Jennifer Cognard-Black honored with $250,000 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching | Department of English". Ohio State University. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  7. ^ a b c d Lengel, Mallory (4 May 2013). "Two SMCM Professors Honored by Arts Council". The Lexington Park Leader. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  8. ^ a b c "Jennifer Cognard-Black". Maryland State Arts Council. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  9. ^ a b c d e "Jennifer Cognard-Black". St. Marys College of Maryland. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  10. ^ "Andrew J. Cognard-Black". St. Marys College of Maryland. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  11. ^ a b "Jennifer Cognard-Black | Fulbright Scholar Program: Why I Believe in Literature". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  12. ^ a b "Jennifer Cognard-Black | Fulbright Scholar Program". Fulbright Scholars. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  13. ^ "About the Cherry Award". Baylor University. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  14. ^ "Alumna Jennifer Cognard-Black honored with $250,000 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching | Department of English". english.osu.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  15. ^ a b Nash, Craig (16 May 2021). "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. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  16. ^ a b c "Jennifer Cognard-Black: Empathetic Teaching". Baylor University. 9 March 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  17. ^ "2020 Cherry Award Finalist". Baylor University. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  18. ^ "2020 Cherry Award Ceremony". Baylor University. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  19. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2021-04-10). JCB Creative Arts Experience (CAE) Reading for Baylor University. Retrieved 2024-10-17 – via YouTube.
  20. ^ "Baylor University English Department". Facebook. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  21. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Extreme Makeover: Feminist Edition. How Cosmetic Medicine Co-opts Feminism.” Ms. Magazine Summer 2007: 46–49.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2008). "Lip Service". In Evans, Elrena; Grant, Caroline (eds.). Mama PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and the Academy. Piscataway, NY: Rutgers UP. pp. 129–135. doi:10.36019/9780813544984-024. ISBN 978-0-8135-4498-4.
  24. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “10 Delicious Books that Cook” (with Melissa Goldthwaite). The Huffington Post 2 November 2014. (article)
  25. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Literatures of Food.” Kojo Nnamdi Radio Show. 24 September 2014. (radio interview)
  26. ^ Professor Cognard-Black Leads Workshops at Sandy Spring Museum.” St. Mary's College of Maryland, 18 Aug. 2015.
  27. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2016), Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Dyer, Joyce; Walls, Elizabeth MacLeod (eds.), "The Hot Thing", From Curlers to Chainsaws, Women and Their Machines, Michigan State University Press, pp. 78–98, doi:10.14321/jj.5501058.11, ISBN 978-1-62895-249-0, JSTOR 10.14321/jj.5501058.11, retrieved 2024-10-17
  28. ^ Cite error: The named reference :31 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  29. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :16 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  30. ^ Macleod, J. Annie. “Gasoline.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2004: 130–141. (short story)
  31. ^ a b Macleod, J. Annie. “Fairytale.” Another Chicago Magazine  42 (Spring 2003): 104–117. (short story)
  32. ^ Jennifer Cognard-Black.” Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, 5 May 2008.
  33. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Routledge, 2004.
  34. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the Advanced Student (co-written with Anne Cognard). Kendall/Hunt Press, 2006.
  35. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (co-edited with Melissa Goldthwaite). New York University Press, 2014.
  36. ^ 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.
  37. ^ a b "2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results". Independent Publisher. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  38. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Goldthwaite, Melissa, eds. (2024). Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically. NYU Press (published 9 January 2024). ISBN 978-1479821792.
  39. ^ 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.
  40. ^ a b Cognard-Black, Jennifer. Great American Short Stories: A Guide for Readers and Thinkers. 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.
  41. ^ 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.
  42. ^ a b Macleod, J. Annie. (Summer 2000). "A Very Short Story Begins on a Farm". South Dakota Review. 38 (2): 29–31.
  43. ^ a b Macleod, J. Annie. “Blink.” So To Speak  Summer-Fall 2009: 71–76. (short story, finalist for So To Speak 2009 fiction award)
  44. ^ https://www.smcm.edu/news/2013/03/cognard-black-wins-maryland-state-arts-council-award/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  45. ^ Casaccia, Katherine (2016-09-30). "2016 Medalists". Independent Publisher Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  46. ^ https://www.midatlanticarts.org/wp-content/uploads/MD-State-Activity-Sheet-2018.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  47. ^ "Jennifer Cognard-Black | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  48. ^ a b 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)
  49. ^ "NWU Honors Seven Legends". Nebraska Wesleyan University. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  50. ^ "Flash 405, August 2023: "Secret" Winners". Exposition Review. 2023-10-26. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  51. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2001). ""I Said Nothing": The Rhetoric of Silence and Gayl Jones's "Corregidora"". NWSA Journal. 13 (1): 40–60. ISSN 1040-0656. JSTOR 4316782.
  52. ^ 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.
  53. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Food and Drink” and “Professionalism.” American Literature in Historical Context. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Gale, 2006. 391–395, 963–968.
  54. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2004). "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): 93–119. ISSN 1540-3084. JSTOR 27747128.
  55. ^ 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.
  56. ^ Williams-Forson, Psyche; Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2014). "Where Are the Women in Contemporary Food Studies? Ruminations on Teaching Gender and Race in the Food Studies Classroom". Feminist Studies. 40 (2): 304–332. ISSN 0046-3663. JSTOR 10.15767/feministstudies.40.2.304.
  57. ^ 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.
  58. ^ 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)
  59. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Feminist Foodies.” Feminist Magazine Radio Show. 18 May 2011. (radio interview)
  60. ^ 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)
  61. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “A Rhetorical Approach to Literature for Composition: Advanced Placement Lessons” (with Anne Cognard). Prentice Hall School Division. (teacher’s guide)
  62. ^ 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)
  63. ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “Books that Cook: A Teacher’s Guide.” New York University Press. September 2014. (teacher’s guide)
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