Jane Beal

Dr. Jane Beal (PhD, University of California, Davis) is a Continuing Lecturer in the University Writing Center. She received her BA, MA, and PhD in English and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She also holds Certificates in Midwifery and Narrative Medicine. She has taught at private liberal arts colleges in Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles and served as a midwife in the U.S., Uganda, and the Philippines. At UC Davis, she has taught in English, Comparative Literature, Religious Studies, the University Writing Program, the First-Year Seminar Program, and the UC Washington Center Program in Washington, DC as well as the Writing Center. She is the author or editor of eight academic books, fifty peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles, and over forty professional healthcare articles published in Midwifery Today. She is a prolific creative writer who has published numerous poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction essays. Her areas of pedagogical expertise in Writing Studies include 1) writing in the professions, 2) rhetoric and composition, 3) the history of rhetoric (esp. the medieval period), and 4) teaching with technology. She enjoys teaching virtual, upper-division courses like “Writing in the Health Professions,” “Business Writing, and “Advanced Composition” as well as seminars on “The Mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien." At all times, she loves to help her students learn, grow, and succeed. Per ardua ad astra!