Overview

Jenna Morton-Aiken is a teacher, scholar, and program leader who specializes in rhetoric and composition, or the study of writing practices. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rhode Island and M.A. in Creative Writing from Brunel University. Her research has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, WPA Writing Program Administration, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and other peer reviewed publications.

She has also contributed to various edited collections, including the award-winning Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication and award-winning Special Issue on Carework and Writing During Covid: Part I.

Dr. Morton-Aiken works with writers across Brown, including with graduate students and faculty as writers and as teachers of writing. She has experience supporting graduate students and faculty on syllabus development and course design through consultations and teaching observations. She mentors at Brown through the BEST program and helped launch and publish on SciWrite@URI, an NSF NRT-IGE funded grant, which included supporting science graduate students and their faculty with teaching and writing best practices and pedagogy. 

Prior to arriving at Brown, Dr. Morton-Aiken was Assistant Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy where she taught college writing, creative short story and nonfiction, business and technical writing, and writing support courses. She also served as Writing Program Administrator and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum for MMA. 

Brown Affiliations

• English