Faculty | Jennifer Meta Robinson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Culture
Director of C122, Interpersonal Communication

Email: jenmetar@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-4607
Office: 275

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2001

Background

Jennifer Meta Robinson directs C122 A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication and courses in how we imagine and communicate our relationship to nature, how food functions in culture and communication, and the critical study of sense of place. She studies the relationship between teaching and learning in higher education, and her ethnographic research extends to vernacular education and assembling self. She is author of The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community (2007) with Jeff Hartenfeld and co-editor of Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum (with Heather Reynolds and Eduardo Brondizio 2010). She co-edits a book series on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is currently the primary investigator for a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to develop a model interdisciplinary learning community that prepares graduate students to be evidence-based teachers. She has served on the board of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning since 2003, as a founder, regional vice president, and president.

Courses Recently Taught

Interpersonal Communication (C122)
Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment (C204)
Sense of Place in Narrative and Ethnography (C313)
Food Performance and Communication (C433)

Publication Highlights

Reynolds, H., E. Brondizio, and J.M. Robinson, eds. Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum. Under contract with Indiana University Press. 2010.
Robinson, J. M. “Foreword.” R. Peden. Rural Free: A Farmwife’s Almanac of Country Living. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. vii-xiii.

Robinson, J. M., A. F. Wise, and T. M. Duffy. “Authentic Design and Collaboration: Involving University Faculty as Clients in Project-Based Learning Technology Design Courses.” In Educating Learning Technology Designers. Eds. C. DiGiano and S. Goldman. NY: Routledge, 2009. 80-100.
Robinson, J. M., and J. A. Hartenfeld. The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Nelson, C. E., and J. M. Robinson. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Change in Higher Education.” In Realities of Educational Change: Interventions to Promote Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Eds. L. Hunt, A. Bromage, and B. Tomkinson. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2006.
Ochoa, T., and J. M. Robinson. “Revisiting Consensus: Collaborative Learning Dynamics during a Problem-Based Learning Activity in Education.” Journal of Teacher Education and Special Education 28 (2005): 10-20.
Robinson, J. M. “Multiple Sites of Authority.” In Campus Progress: Supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ed. B. Cambridge. Washington, D.C.: AAHE, 2004. 125-128.
Robinson, J. M., and C. E. Nelson. “Institutionalizing and Diversifying a Vision of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 14 (2003): 95-118.
Robinson, J. M. “A Question of Authority: Dealing With Disruptive Students.” In Our Own Voice: Graduate Students Teach Writing. Eds. T. Good and L. Warshauer. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Robinson, J. M. “‘If Love Could Have Saved You’: Newspaper Obituary Poems.” Midwestern Folklore 19 (Fall 1993): 99-112.

Selected Honors and Awards

Nonfiction Finalist, 2008 Best Books of Indiana Competition, Indiana Center for the Book.
Primary Investigator, “The Indiana University Collegium on Inquiry in Action," Graduate Student-Faculty Inquiry Communities on Learning and Teaching," Teagle Foundation, $150,000, 2008-2011.
President, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008.
Campus cluster leader for Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership Program, 2006-2009.
Theodore M. Hesburgh Faculty Development Award for Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Initiative, sponsored by Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College (TIAA-CREF) Retirement Equities Fund, $30,000, 2003.
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University, 1998.
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University, 1997.