About

Jennifer Shook is a PhD candidate in English and Graduate Certificate student in book history and book arts at the Center for the Book, as well as Co-Director of Imagining America’s PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Engagement) Fellow Program, and social media correspondent for The Digital Studio for Public Arts and Humanities. She holds interdisciplinary degrees from Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago, and has taught at DePaul University, Columbia College, and the Newberry Library, among other places. She was a Road Scholar speaker for the Illinois Humanities Council and a dramaturg, director, and theatre producer in Chicago, where she founded Caffeine Theatre—a company that mined the poetic tradition to explore social questions (2002-2012). Her current work employs memorial and commemoration as a lens to explore the relationships between early American performance representations and contemporary Native American drama.