Media

Jennifer Summit

Curriculum Reform from the Ground Up
Invited talk to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta
to inaugurate a curricular revision to the BA, January 30, 2013
Profile in the Stanford Daily
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Teaching for Learning
a presentation through the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning, Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching, 2 Febuary 2012. What difference does it make if we plan our courses around what we want our students to learn? And how can student learning send us back to the big questions of our disciplines? This talk reviews recent research on undergraduate literacy and intellectual development and explores how it can transform university teaching, research, and disciplinary knowledge.
The Humanities : What Are They, What Were They, and What Might They Become?
a presentation for alumni during homecoming weekend, Stanford University, 20 October 2011
What is a Reader? A Roundtable on the New Literacy and the English Curriculum
featuring Dorothy J. Hale (Berkeley), Danielle Igra (Mills), Andrea Lunsford (Stanford), Tyrus Miller (UC Santa Cruz), Juan Poblete (UC Santa Cruz), Cynthia Scheinberg (Mills), Deanna Shemek (UC Santa Cruz), with a response by Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr), chaired by Jennifer Summit (Stanford), 24 June 2011
Commencement 2010 Stanford University
English Department Graduation welcome, given as Department Chair, June 2010
Travels of John Leland
interview with David Wallace in a program featuring James Carley, James Simpson, Bill Sheils, and Helen Cooper, with the part of Leland played by Jeremy Northam. BBC Radio 3: 26 April 2009.
The City of Ladies
radio interview for "What's the Word?" produced by the Modern Language Association, distributed by PRX, February 2006.