Dr. Jennifer Connor
Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
Dr. Jennifer Connor
Dr. Jennifer Connor’s major research interests and experience are in the area of communications. She has developed a new course for the Department of History on the history of the book. In the Division of Community Health and Humanities she will be developing graduate-level courses on biomedical communication, looking mainly at the larger theoretical issues in this area so students can apply rhetorical analysis to a document and their own writing.
Dr. Connor earned her PhD in Library and Information Science (Historical Studies) at the University of Western Ontario in 1992. She also holds three degrees in English: a M.Phil (English) from the University of Waterloo (1982); a MA (English) from York University in Toronto (1979) and a BA (English) from the University of Guelph (1975).
Dr. Connor was associate professor and director in a unique master of science program in biomedical communication at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, where she introduced her working professional students to the rhetorical nature of scientific communication and the history of medical literature. From 1980 to 1993, she taught widely at the University of Western Ontario in the faculties of Business Administration, Social Science, Library and Information Science, and Medicine.
Memorial University, and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, have long held attraction for Dr. Connor. Her MA thesis, supervised by well-known folklorist Edith Fowke, studied the interplay between print and oral cultures by analyzing many versions of an Irish broadside ballad, and her PhD thesis incorporated William Vaughan’s Newlanders Cure (1630) as the earliest example of publishing about health and medicine in Canada.