Position Title
Continuing Lecturer
Biography:
Dr. Jane Beal (PhD, University of California, Davis) is a Continuing Lecturer in the UC Davis Writing Center. She received her BA, MA, and PhD in English and her MFA in Creative Writing. She also holds a Certificate in Midwifery and a graduate Certificate in 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, D.C. as well as the Writing Center. She is the author or editor of eight academic books as well as fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Her current research focuses on how to use narrative medicine to bring healing from trauma to healthcare providers and their patients, with a special focus on midwives, childbearing women, and infants. She has published over forty professional healthcare articles on the history and practice of midwifery in Midwifery Today. She uses her experience as a cross-cultural midwife and midwife-educator to teach “Writing in the Health Professions.” Through this course, she has helped to prepare hundreds of UC Davis students for their future careers as doctors, nurses, midwives, psychologists, dentists, physicians’ assistants, physical therapists, veterinarians, forensic pathologists, and public health administrators.
She enjoys teaching other upper-division writing courses, including “Advanced Composition,” “Business Writing,” and “Writing in Education,” 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!
https://janebeal.wordpress.com
Education:
- BA in English (Sonoma State University)
- MA in English (Sonoma State University)
- PhD in English (University of California, Davis)
- MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing (Bay Path University)