Professor Ketcham is teaching Comparative Food Cultures and Travel Writing in Lyon, France for Fall Quarter 2024. Learn more about the WCCSA program or follow along on Instagram.
She will be on sabbatical in Winter Quarter, researching inclusive AI and bias spectrums in content design as well as finishing a manuscript.
Education
- PhD in Rhetoric, Writing, and Cultural Studies, Department of English, LSU
- Doctoral Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies, LSU
- Doctoral Minors in Communication Studies, and Curriculum & Assessment, LSU
- Graduate Certificate in User Centered Design, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, UW
Awards
- Cascadia College Excellence in Teaching, Award Recipient
- Women in Leadership, Cascadia’s Faculty/Staff Award Recipient
Selected Publications
- “The Chaos of Kairos: Discourses of Timing and Choice” in Staging Women's Lives in Academia: Performing Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces. Michelle Masse and Nan Bauer-Maglin, Eds. SUNY Press. 2017.
- “Techno-Mob Movements: Public Performances and the Collective Voices of Outsiders” in Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric. Anne Stockdell-Giesler, Ed. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. January 2010.
- “Subvert this Image. Negotiating Multiple Literacies & Deconstructing Consumerism through Photoshop” in Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone: Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom. Allison Smith, Ed. Thompson Wadsworth Press, 2008, 109-119.
Community & Professional Engagement
- Seattle Children’s Hospital Celiac Program Community Advisory Board Member, Present
- Co-Lead (UX) for Cascadia’s Guided Pathways, 2020-2021
- WA State Board CTC Bridge to College English Course Trainer, 2016-2018
Presentations
Jessica regularly hosts faculty workshops on inclusive design, equity, and designing for belonging; AI and writing; and interaction design & online learning.
Hobbies
Outside of work I have an arts-rich life, writing and revising essays and poems alongside my writing group which was birthed from Orcas Island’s biannual Write Doe Bay retreat, making mixed media art (clay & textiles & encaustic painting), and songwriting with my partner.
I volunteer for the Shoreline School District (DEI and arts education), Urban Craft Uprising, and KEXP radio. I also volunteer as a mentor for families newly diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac disease, and am an outspoken community advocate for increasing awareness of, and access to, allergen-free foods.