Jessie L. Moore

Jessie L. Moore, PhD, is director of Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning and professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric. She leads the Center’s research seminars, which support multi-institutional inquiry into high-impact pedagogies and other engaged-learning practices. Her research focuses on engaged learning, mentoring, the transfer of writing knowledge, collaborative inquiry, faculty development, and students’ writing lives.

Moore is the author of Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff (2023) and co-editor of several collections, including Cultivating Capstones, Writing Beyond the University, Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, Critical Transitions, and Understanding Writing Transfer. She earned her PhD from Purdue University and received the 2019 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Distinguished Service Award.