JESSIE L. MOORE is director of the Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) and professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University. She previously coordinated Elon’s first-year writing program and professional writing & rhetoric program. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in English – Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University.
As CEL’s director, Jessie leads planning, implementation, and assessment of the Center’s research seminars, which support multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary inquiry on high-impact pedagogies and other focused engaged learning topics. She also produces the Center’s multimedia resources, including concise online guides on research-informed practices for engaged learning, videos, and podcasts.
With Peter Felten, she edits two book series: the Stylus Publishing/Center for Engaged Learning Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching and the Center for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series.
Jessie is the author of Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff (Stylus, 2023) and co-editor of five books:
- Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning (with Caroline J. Ketcham and Anthony G. Weaver, Stylus, 2023),
- Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing (with Julia Bleakney and Paula Rosinski, CEL Open Access, 2022),
- Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (with Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler and Paul Miller, CUR, 2018),
- Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education (with Randy Bass, Stylus, 2017), and
- Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer (with Chris Anson, The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2016).
Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, International Journal for Academic Development, Journal of Faculty Development, Journal of Second Language Writing, Journal on Centers for Teaching & Learning, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, TESOL Journal, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Written Communication, and in edited collections.
In 2021, Jessie received Elon University’s Distinguished Scholar Award. Jessie’s professional service to the scholarship of teaching and learning was recognized with the 2019 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Distinguished Service Award. She previously served as the elected Secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (2015-2019), on the Executive Committee for CCCC, as U.S. Regional Vice President of ISSOTL, as Chair of ISSOTL’s Communications Committee, as co-Chair of ISSOTL’s Publications Committee, as the inaugural Chair-Elect (and subsequently as the Chair and Past-Chair) of the Second Language Writing Interest Section of TESOL, and on the Board for the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators. In 2013, she co-hosted the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference with Peter Felten and developed ISSOTL Online 2013, which featured strands on SoTL foundations, studying and designing for transfer, and student voices in SoTL. Jessie’s video interviews for ISSOTL Online 2023 remain available on the Center for Engaged Learning’s YouTube channel, with hundreds of other video clips from Jessie’s interviews with SoTL scholars and engaged learning researchers.