Jenny Kijowski is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, where she has a certificate in Film Studies and is working on a certificate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. She is also a Senior Instructional Technology Fellow (ITF) at central Macaulay Honors College, having formerly been an ITF at Brooklyn College. Prior to becoming an ITF, Jenny was a Graduate Teaching Fellow, through which she taught composition and literature courses at BMCC and Queens College, where she helped develop a Cyber Composition program. Her dissertation examines gender, nationalism and the literature of trauma. You can view her digital dissertation companion (in progress) at http://genderingtrauma.wordpress.com.

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children (twins Nico and Luca), and another sort of child, a pit bull named Iggy.