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Jennifer Cognard-Black
Born	(1969-01-08) January 8, 1969 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Other names	J. Annie MacLeod
Education	Ohio State University (1999) Iowa State University (1994) Nebraska Wesleyan University (1991)
Occupation(s)	Professor, Writer, Editor
Spouse	Andrew Cognard-Black
Children	Katharine Cognard-Black

Jennifer Cognard-Black (born January 8, 1969) is an American short story writer, essayist, feminist scholar, and professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a public honors college. A two-time Fulbright scholar to The Netherlands and Slovenia as well as the 2020 winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University, Cognard-Black teaches the novel, Victorian adaptations, women writers, and the literatures of food in addition to workshops in creative nonfiction and the short story. She has produced three lecture series for The Great Courses and Audible.com and has authored a critical monograph, a writing textbook, and four co-edited collections of fiction, poetry, and essays.

Under the pseudonym J. Annie MacLeod, she has published short stories and poetry in journals such as Story Magazine, So To Speak, Versal, EcoTheo, The South Dakota Review, The Cream City Review, Literary Mama, PoetryMemoirStory, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Recognition for her creative work includes three Pushcart Prize nominations, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for fiction, and a Creative Fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Early life

Jennifer Cognard-Black was born in Fort Worth, Texas on January 8, 1969 and graduated from Lincoln East High School in 1987. She earned a dual degree in Music and English from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1991, where she graduated summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Kappa Phi. Cognard-Black then studied under Jane Smiley at Iowa State University, graduating with honors in 1994 with a master's in fiction and essay writing. In 1999, she received her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century women’s literature and feminist literary theory from The Ohio State University.

Personal life

Since 1992, Cognard-Black has been married to her college sweetheart Dr. Andrew Cognard-Black, a professor of Sociology. They have one daughter.

Career

Cognard-Black has been teaching at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a public liberal arts college in St. Mary’s City, Maryland, since 2000. There, she received twelve faculty development grants, two Internationalization and Teaching & Learning Grants (2011 and 2016), and thrice the Faculty-Student Life Award.

Cognard-Black is also the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar appointments. The first in 2012 took her to the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia to teach the American novel and creative writing. In 2020, she spent the second as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in American Culture at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she taught a course in American food narratives and social justice.

In 2020, Cognard-Black won the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University. The award honors professors of excellence across disciplines, stimulates discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and encourages departments and institutions to value their own great teachers.

As the 2020 recipient, Cognard-Black received a prize of $250,000 and taught in residence at Baylor University for the spring of 2021. During that semester, she offered an upper-level seminar in the literatures of food, "Books that Cook," and a workshop in creative nonfiction writing, “Moments of Truth." Cognard-Black also gave public lectures, workshops, and a creative reading; participated in a research panel; helped to organize a Summit on Empathetic Teaching with Baylor's Academy of Teaching and Learning; and engaged in experiential and service learning projects with her students in partnership with the World Hunger Relief Farm, the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and the Martin Museum of Art.

In her writing career, Cognard-Black has published articles on feminist theory, food narratives, and Victorian literature in such places as Ms. Magazine, where she sits on the committee of scholars, and The Huffington Post. She has also appeared on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR to discuss recipes as containers of individual and national memory and has offered “Edible Essay” workshops for groups, including the Sandy Spring Museum, the Iowa Writers’ House, and Revolve, an arts and performance space in Asheville, NC.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in such journals as Story Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Another Chicago Magazine. Cognard-Black has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, most recently for “Daughter Mother Daughter,” as well as a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction in 2013, and she has been selected as an artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Good Contrivance Farm Writer’s Retreat, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, for which she won a creative fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Her first book, Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, was published by Routledge in 2004. She then co-wrote a writing textbook, Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the Advanced Student, with her mother, Dr. Anne Cognard, and has co-edited four anthologies of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or poetry. She is best known for Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal, published with NYU Press in 2014 and co-edited with Dr. Melissa Goldthwaite. From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines, a collection of creative nonfiction essays by women writers with MSU Press in 2016, won a gold medal in the National Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. Her most recent collection, co-edited with Dr. Melissa Goldthwaite, is Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically, was published with NYU Press in 2024.

In 2016, the first of her lecture series with The Great Courses was released, a course on essay-writing called Becoming a Great Essayist. In 2019, she produced a second series with TGC on the craft and art of short fiction, titled Great American Short Stories: A Guide for Readers and Writers. Her third series, Books that Cook: Food and Fiction, was contracted with TGC and released as an Audible Original on Audible.com in 2021.

Awards

• Finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Award (1999)
• Norton T. Dodge Award for Creative and Scholarly Achievement (2005)
• So to Speak Fiction Award Finalist (2009)
• Nominations for the Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction (2001, 2007, 2021)
• Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Ljubljana (2012)
• Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction (2013)
• Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold (First) Prize for Anthologies (2016)
• Honorable Mention for the Glimmer Train Fiction Open Competition (2018)
• Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship (2018)
• Senior Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Amsterdam (2020)
• Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching (2020)
• Nebraska Wesleyan Alumni Achievement Award (2024)
• Exposition Review Second Place (2023)

Bibliography

Anthologies

• Cognard-Black, Jennifer; MacLeod Walls, Elizabeth, eds. (2006). Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by Women Authors. University of Iowa Press.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Goldthwaite, Melissa, eds. (2014). Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. New York University Press.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Dyer, Joyce; MacLeod Walls, Elizabeth, eds. (2016). From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines. Michigan State University Press.

Short stories

• Macleod, J. Annie (Fall 1999). "Static". The Cream City Review. 24 (1): 59–77.
• “A Very Short Story Begins on a Farm.” South Dakota Review (finalist for the 1999 Glimmer Train Short Fiction Award) (Summer 2000)
• Macleod, J. Annie (Spring 2001). "A Cold Climate". The Briar Cliff Review. 13: 54–59.
• Macleod, J. Annie (Spring 2002). "A La Cart". Roanoke Review. 27: 71–92.
• “Fairytale.” Another Chicago Magazine (Spring 2003)
• "Gasoline". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 130–141. September 2004.
• Macleod, J. Annie (September 2007). "Meiosis". Literary Mama.
• Macleod, J. Annie. (Spring 2008). "A New Love Poem". Pisgah Review. 3 (1): 103–108.
• “Blink.” So To Speak (finalist for So To Speak fiction award) (Summer-Fall 2009)
• Macleod, J. Annie (June 2010). "Gifts". Assembly Journal.
• Macleod, J. Annie (2012). "Double". Versal. 10: 58–59.
• MacLeod, J. Annie (2014). "Burn". In Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Goldthwaite, Melissa (eds.). Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. NYU Press. pp. 314–324. ISBN 978-1-4798-3021-3. JSTOR j.ctt9qg5k7.
• Macleod, J. Annie (2015). "American Gothic". PoemMemoirStory. 14: 125–137.
• Macleod, J. Annie (Summer 2015). "A Clean Shot". Valparaiso Fiction Review. 4 (2): 34–39.
• Macleod, J. Annie (April 2021). "Daughter Mother Daughter". Story Magazine: 83–89.
• MacLeod, J. Annie (August 2023). "The Dolls". Exposition Review. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
• MacLeod, J. Annie (2021-11-02). "Abandon". The Centifictionist.

Essays

• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (July 1995). "Allegro con Agitato". The Ohio State Alumni Magazine: 20–23.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2008). "Lip Service". In Evans, Elrena; Grant, Caroline (eds.). Mama PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and the Academy. Piscataway, NY: Rutgers UP. pp. 129–135. doi:10.36019/9780813544984-024. ISBN 978-0-8135-4498-4.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2016). "The Hot Thing". Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines. Michigan State University Press. pp. 78–98. doi:10.14321/jj.5501058.11. ISBN 978-1-62895-249-0. JSTOR 10.14321/jj.5501058.11.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (7 October 2020). "The Now of Our Togetherness". How We Are.

Poems

• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (11 March 2021). "A Letter, Written by Hand, from Quarantine". Ecotheo Review.

Scholarly books

• Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Routledge. 2004.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Cognard, Anne (2006). Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the Advanced Student.

Scholarly articles

• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (February 1995). "Garrison Keillor's Wobegon Heroes". Popular Culture Review. 6 (1): 107–119. doi:10.1002/j.2831-865X.1995.tb00054.x.
• "'I Said Nothing;: The Rhetoric of Silence and Gayl Jones's Corregidora". National Women's Studies Association Journal. 2001. JSTOR 4316782.
• “Telegraphs.” Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (2005)
• “Food and Drink” and “Professionalism.” American Literature in Historical Context (2006)
• “Extreme Makeover: Feminist Edition. How Cosmetic Medicine Co-opts Feminism.” Ms. Magazine (Summer 2007)
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer; Goldthwaite, Melissa A. (2008). "Books That Cook: Teaching Food and Food Literature in the English Classroom". College English. 70 (4): 421–436. doi:10.58680/ce20086358. ISSN 0010-0994. JSTOR 25472279.
  • “Sue Johnson’s Curious Cabinets.” Moore Adventures in Wonderland: An Exhibition by Sue Johnson on Lewis Carroll and Marianne Moore (2009)
  • “The Feminist Food Revolution: From Farms to Community Gardens to Restaurants, Women are Taking Food Back into Their Own Hands.” Ms. Magazine (Summer 2010)
  • “The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Lady Byron Vindicated and the Rise of Professional Realism.” American Literary Realism (Winter 2004)
    • Reprinted in Beyond Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2011)
  • “10 Delicious Books that Cook," with Melissa Goldthwaite. The Huffington Post (2014)
  • “Where are the Women in Contemporary Food Studies? Ruminations on Teaching Gender and Race in the Food Studies Classroom,” with Psyche Williams-Forson. Feminist Studies (2014)
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2015). "Beautiful Monster: Plastic Surgery as Cultural Metaphor". In Adams, Christine; Adams, Tracy (eds.). Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 229–249. ISBN 978-1-4438-7824-1.
• Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2017). "The Embodied Rhetoric of Recipes". In Goldthwaite, Melissa (ed.). Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 65–88. ISBN 978-0-8093-3591-6.
• “The Golden Ladle and the White Mammy Figure in Post-War America.” The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, Medicine (October 2018)

Blog posts

• “A Literary Feast: The Making of a Thanksgiving Meal," with Melissa Goldthwaite. From the Square: NYU Press Blog (2018)

Interviews

• “Feminist Foodies.” Feminist Magazine (2011)
• “The Literatures of Food.” Kojo Nnamdi (2014)
• “New Views on the Present, the Past, and the Future: Becoming a Great Essayist.” The Torch: The Great Courses Podcast (2016)
• “So Many Teachers Go Unrecognized” by Susan Svrluga. The Washington Post (2020)
• “Jennifer Cognard-Black: Empathetic Teaching.” Professors Talk Pedagogy: The Academy for Teaching and Learning (2021)

Teachers guides

• “A Rhetorical Approach to Literature for Composition: Advanced Placement Lessons,” with Anne Cognard. Prentice Hall School Division
• “WGSX 200: Introduction to Women Studies.” Introducing Women's and Gender Studies: A Teaching Resources Collection
• “Books that Cook: A Teacher’s Guide.” New York University Press (2014)

Lecture series

• Becoming a Great Essayist. The Great Courses (2016)
• Great American Short Stories. The Great Courses (2019)
• Books that Cook: Food and Fiction. Audible Original (2021)

External links

• https://www.jennifercognard-black.com/