Degrees:
Ph.D., National Univ. of Singapore
M.A., Univ. of Minnesota,Twin Cities
B.A., Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara
Jeffrey Partridge studied literature as an undergraduate at UCSB and as an M.A. student at the University of Minnesota before discovering an interest in Asian American literature at the National University of Singapore, where he completed his Ph.D. and subsequently taught as an assistant professor. He lived and taught in China in 1988 and 1989-90 and in Singapore from 1992-2002. After teaching in the English departments at CCSU and UConn, Professor Partridge was hired at Capital Community College, where he has served for ten years as chair of the humanities department and is currently the CCC faculty director for the Liberal Arts Action Lab, a partnership with Trinity College.
Professor Partridge authored Beyond Literary Chinatown (University of Washington Press), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2007. In 2010, he attended an NEH summer workshop in Cleveland that stimulated an interest in place-based education, and that led to an NEH grant to start the Hartford Heritage Project at Capital Community College. As director of the HHP, Professor Partridge works with faculty and Hartford arts and cultural institutions to develop curriculum-based experiences for students, including fully place-based courses at museums. |
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Place-based education
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Community-engaged pedagogy
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Asian American Literature
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American Literature (general, post 1865)
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Place-based Pedagogy for Higher Education
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Asian American Literature
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Christianity and Literature
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Books:
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Beyond Literary Chinatown. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. (American Book Award)
Blogs on Place-Based Education:
- GettingSmart.Com series on Place-Based Education: “A Literature Class in a Museum: A Place-Based Experience,” May 23, 2017.
- “Resources and Quotes on the Power of Place,” Jan 22, 2017.
- “HigherEd Approaches to Empowering Students,” Dec 22, 2016.
- “Out of the Classroom, Off the Campus and Into the Community,” Dec 5, 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Journals & Book Chapters (Selected):
- “Augustinian Evil in The Gospel According to the Son and The Castle in the Forest: A Case for Non-Dualism.” Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest. John Whalen-Bridge (ed.). New York: Palgrave, 2010. 85-104.
- “Re-Viewing the Literary Chinatown: Multicultural Hybridity in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land.” Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. David S. Goldstein and Audrey Thacker (eds.). Seattle: U of Washington Press, 2007. 99-120.
- “The Gospel According to the Son and Christian Belief.” Journal of Modern Literature 30.1 (Fall 2006).
- Introduction. American Knees. Shawn Wong. Seattle: U of Washington Press, 2005. ix-xxi.
- “Review Essay: Adoption, Interracial Marriage, and Mixed-Race Babies: The New America in Recent Asian American Fiction.” MELUS: The Journal for the Society of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. 30.2 (Summer 2005). 242-251.
- “The Politics of Ethnic Authorship: Emerson, Whitman, and Li-Young Lee at the Banquet Table.” Studies in the Literary Imagination. Shirley Geok-lin Lim (ed.). 37:1 (Spring 2004). 101-124.
Recent Presentations:
- “The Hartford Heritage Project: Connecting Students with Place Through Innovative Course Design” with colleagues from CCC, Campus Compact New England Regional Conference, March 2019.
- “The Liberal Arts Action Lab Model: Partnering Across Institutions in Place-Based Research” with Trinity College colleagues, Campus Compact New England Regional Conference, March 2019.
- “Semester in a Museum: Balancing the Literary, the Historical, and the Material,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2017.
- “Academic and Museum Collaborations: Teaching a Literature Course through Museums and Material Culture” with collaborators at Mark Twain House & Museum and Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, March 2016.
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- Educational Excellence and Distinguished Service Award, Board of Regents, CSCU, 2018
- Merit Award, Capital Community College, 2007-2008; 2008-2009, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2016-2019
- Medal of Appreciation, Capital Community College Student Senate, 2015
- Award for Student Engagement, Capital Community College Student Senate, 2014
- Excellence in Teaching, National Society for Leadership and Success, 2014
- NEH Challenge Grant to endow the Hartford Heritage Program, $300,000, 2012
- NEH Humanities Initiatives Grant for Colleges with High Hispanic Enrollment, $98,000, 2011
- Chair Academy Award for Exemplary Leader, 2011
- American Book Award for Beyond Literary Chinatown from the Before Columbus Foundation, 2007
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