Jacqueline Emery

Jacqueline Emery graduated from Rutgers College in 2000.  She came to Temple in 2003 to pursue a Ph.D. in English, after having completed an M.A. and a Women's Studies Certificate at Penn in 2001.  Jacqueline has taught courses in American Studies, English, and Women’s Studies at Temple.  She is currently a Visiting Instructor at Swarthmore College, where she teaches the fundamentals of academic writing to undergraduates of all levels. 

Jacqueline’s main research interest is ethnic American literature.  She is currently researching her dissertation, an interdisciplinary study of American education at the turn into the twentieth century.  Her dissertation will examine educational treatises, legal documents, letters, photographs, and literature to explore how institutional settings – like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and the Chinatown missions in San Francisco – sought to use education as an instrument of assimilation.  The project seeks to address how the education of immigrants and racialized minorities is theorized; how the students of these schools describe their experiences in autobiographies; and how American culture is shaped by the effort to educate and assimilate immigrants and racialized minorities.