Jennifer Trainor

Jennifer Seibel Trainor is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at San Francisco State University. Her scholarship focuses on critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and literacy studies, particularly examining how social and emotional factors influence educational equity.

She received the Modern Language Association's Mina Shaughnessy Prize for her book 'Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education in an All-White Suburban High School' (2008), which analyzes racial dynamics in educational settings.

Her teaching encompasses undergraduate writing courses and graduate seminars in literacy studies, critical pedagogy frameworks, and composition instruction methodologies. No specific publications beyond her book are detailed, nor are research grants or laboratory affiliations mentioned.