Jennifer Holberg, Associate Professor, English
616-526-6598
jholberg@calvin.edu
Office: LN 102 (directions)
Weekly Schedule
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Educational Background
Professor Holberg was granted a bachelor of arts in English and history from New Mexico State University; she graduated with the highest honors as the university's valedictorian. She went from there to the University of Washington, where she completed her master of arts and PhD in English in 1991 and 1997. She joined the English department faculty at Calvin in 1998.
Academic Interests
The scholarship of teaching, 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century British literature, the "middlebrow" woman novelist (currently working on a book-length study of the writer E.M. Delafield), the intersections of faith and literature
Recent Activities
Professor Holberg is the founding co-editor of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture. Published by Duke University Press, the journal was selected as Best New Journal by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) in 2001. Pedagogy celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2010. As associate director of Calvin's honors program, Professor Holberg works with faculty and students, and this year will be teaching the inaugural course for students who live on the honors floor in Van Reken Hall. Her recent book, Shouts and Whispers: 21 Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith, was published by Eerdmans in 2006 and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She has just completed a three year term serving as Calvin's head teaching fellow, training and mentoring new Calvin College faculty and assisting with faculty development across the campus.
Hobbies
Spending time with family, friends, and Jake the dog; reading; cooking; gardening; walking; kayaking; enjoying music, movies, TV; traveling
Favorite Books
Middlemarch by George Eliot, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Additional Information
Professor Holberg was the recipient of the Professor of the Year award in 2002.
For JRB, Perspectives, Jennifer Holberg
Becoming a Burden, Perspectives, Jennifer Holberg
Book Looks at Faith and Writing, Calvin News
Saving Private Memories, Spark, Lynn Rosendale
