Jennifer Pan

Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century anglophone literature, science and technology studies, and literary theory, with additional interests in francophone and germanophone literatures, translation theory, design theory, media studies, and digital humanities. She is currently working on her manuscript Implicit Sacrifice, examining how novels theorize responsibility in technological design.

Education: Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago (2021). She has held fellowships including the Lindsay Dissertation Completion Fellowship (University of Chicago, 2020–2021), the Copeland Fellowship (Amherst College), and support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Teaching includes courses such as WRT 205 Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing (Spring 2025) and WRT 105 Studio 1: Practices of Academic Writing (Fall 2024). She co-organizes the Global Digital Humanities Working Group (2024–present).