Jessamyn Neuhaus is the author of Geeky Pedagogy, a witty and critically reflective narrative guide to effective teaching practices written for super-smart intellectuals, introverts, nerds, wonks, and geeks in academia who want to translate their scholarly expertise into student learning.
News and Reviews
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Jessamyn’s interview about pop culture professor stereotypes and her edited collection Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning with Jeff Young for the EdSurge podcast. This interview was one of the top ten most listened-to episodes in 2023.
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Review of Picture a Professor published in Science Magazine
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Jessamyn’s interview about Geeky Pedagogy and numerous aspects of teaching and learning with Steven Robinow for the podcast Teaching for Student Success.
Media
Praise for Geeky Pedagogy from fellow introvert, James M. Lang in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Review of Geeky Pedagogy by Sherri Spelic published in Recursive: SoTL in Progress.
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“If You’re Reading This, You Might be a Geek.” Review of Geeky Pedagogy on the Pedagogy and American Literary Studies (PALS) site.
INTERVIEW
Jessamyn Neuhaus takes on the “super-teacher” myth in an interview with Bonni Stachowiak for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Jessamyn Neuhaus advises listeners to nerd out about teaching on Barbi Honeycutt’s Lecture Breakers podcast. Related sources also included.
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Short piece in Teaching History by Jessamyn Neuhaus titled “A Break with the Past or Resurgence of Amateurism? Placing Our Pandemic Era in the History of College Teaching”
BLOG INTERVIEW
Lean into your nerdiness! Q&A on the ACUE (Association of College & University Educators) community blog.
BLOG POST
Paying homage to geek culture touchstones in a post for the West Virginia University Press blog “Booktimist:” “Nerd Alert: Reflections on Quoting Geek Culture in Geeky Pedagogy.”
INTERVIEW
Listen to Jessamyn Neuhaus nerd out about teaching on the Tea for Teaching podcast with John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare, SUNY Oswego.
MEDIA
Geeky Pedagogy shout-out from Inside Higher Ed’s roundup of Fall 2019 university press books: Scott McLemee, “All Fall,” Inside Higher Ed
Interview
Read Jessamyn’s OneHE interview about Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning
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Jessamyn’s interview on “The Academic Life,” a New Books Network podcast, highlighting ongoing pedagogical learning for nerdy academic introverts.
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Jessamyn’s interview on “Tea for Teaching” about co-facilitating a multi campus faculty reading group about teaching and learning.
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Jessamyn’s interview with the Teaching and Learning Online Network about the pedagogical and personal challenges of teaching during the pandemic.
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June 2021 Teaching and Learning Online Network newsletter guest edited by Jessamyn Neuhaus: “Nerding Out to Keep from Burning Out.”
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Teachers College Record review of Geeky Pedagogy by Brian Miller and Christy McConnell.
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Jessamyn Neuhaus on introverts and teaching during spring 2020 remote emergency instruction in a Chronicle of Higher Education column, “Remote Teaching While Introverted.”
INTERVIEW
Jessamyn Neuhaus and student Theresa Hyland discuss how to bring student voices into faculty development in this episode of the Tea for Teaching podcast with John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare, SUNY Oswego.
oral history iNTERVIEW
Jessamyn Neuhaus’s interview with the oral history project “More and More Every Day,” at South Phoenix and South Mountain Community College, documenting teaching and learning in the COVID-19 era.
BLOG POST
Jessamyn Neuhaus and Cyndi Kernahan reflect on educational development in 2020 in a post for the West Virginia University Press blog “Booktimist:” “Pedagogical Care on the COVID Campus: New Resources from the Authors in Our Higher Educational Series.”
INTERVIEW
Jessamyn Neuhaus discusses the WVUP authors’ Pedagogy of Care Project on this episode of the Tea for Teaching podcast with John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare, SUNY Oswego.
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Jessamyn’s interview on “Tea for Teaching” about using unessay assignments.
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Jessamyn Neuhaus’s interview with Doug Lederman in Inside Higher Ed about becoming the new part-time Interim Director of the SUNY Plattsburgh Center of Teaching Excellence.
REVIEW
Library Journal gives a thumbs up to Geeky Pedagogy. This article is currently paywalled but anyone can read this brief highlight.
INTERVIEW
Jessamyn Neuhaus’s interview about geeky pedagogy with Stephen Pimpare at the New Books Network.
Conversation
Jessamyn Neuhaus talks teaching and everyday miracles with Sherri Spelic in this recorded dialogue.
MEDIA
Geeky Pedagogy included on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Selected New Books on Higher Education” list.
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Jessamyn Neuhaus talks with local podcaster Matthew Waite about being a bookworm, teaching and learning, and “Magic: The Gathering” in this episode of Why Waite? Innovate.
INTERVIEW
Jessamyn Neuhaus talks progressive pedagogy & teaching as an introvert with the Human Restoration Project. Podcast and transcript available or listen to the podcast.
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Geeky Pedagogy makes John Warner’s holiday gift guide list: “Books to Give the Educator in Your Life,” Inside Higher Ed, December 5, 2019.