Jane Kokernak is the senior communications advisor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, joining the staff in 2018. She designs and presents educational resources and programs for graduate students to achieve more effectiveness in professional and research-related communication. Additionally, she supports faculty in their work on grants and research papers. From the fall of 2018 to the spring of 2022, she was editor of Khoury News, supervising a team of freelance writers and Northeastern student journalists in covering stories related to college programs, faculty research, staff highlights, and alumni and student achievements.
In addition to her staff position at Khoury College, she is a doctoral student in education at Northeastern. Her dissertation research focuses on how STEM PhD students develop as writers and researchers in their discipline.
Previously, she was a lecturer in MIT’s Writing, Rhetorical, and Professional Communication program, teaching and coaching undergraduate scientists and engineers in discipline-specific skills in public speaking and professional writing. She collaborated with faculty, other lecturers, and teaching assistants in designing curriculum, instruction, and activities. Earlier, she taught first-year writing and coordinated writing-across-the curriculum at Simmons University, Boston.
Kokernak has made pedagogic-research presentations at many academic conferences, including the Conference on College Composition & Communication (4Cs), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Writing and Critical Thinking Conference, IEEE/International Professional Communication Conference, and International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) conference. She has presented workshops to faculty at Dartmouth College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and the Boston Rhetoric and Writing Network (BRAWN) Summer Institute.
Her creative life as a writer is important to her, and she is an active member of an online writing circle. Kokernak’s essays have appeared in Pangyrus, Bellevue Literary Review, Technology Review, and other publications.
Jane Kokernak is the senior communications advisor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, joining the staff in 2018. She designs and presents educational resources and programs for graduate students to achieve more effectiveness in professional and research-related communication. Additionally, she supports faculty in their work on grants and research papers. From the fall of 2018 to the spring of 2022, she was editor of Khoury News, supervising a team of freelance writers and Northeastern student journalists in covering stories related to college programs, faculty research, staff highlights, and alumni and student achievements.
In addition to her staff position at Khoury College, she is a doctoral student in education at Northeastern. Her dissertation research focuses on how STEM PhD students develop as writers and researchers in their discipline.
Previously, she was a lecturer in MIT’s Writing, Rhetorical, and Professional Communication program, teaching and coaching undergraduate scientists and engineers in discipline-specific skills in public speaking and professional writing. She collaborated with faculty, other lecturers, and teaching assistants in designing curriculum, instruction, and activities. Earlier, she taught first-year writing and coordinated writing-across-the curriculum at Simmons University, Boston.
Kokernak has made pedagogic-research presentations at many academic conferences, including the Conference on College Composition & Communication (4Cs), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Writing and Critical Thinking Conference, IEEE/International Professional Communication Conference, and International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) conference. She has presented workshops to faculty at Dartmouth College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and the Boston Rhetoric and Writing Network (BRAWN) Summer Institute.
Her creative life as a writer is important to her, and she is an active member of an online writing circle. Kokernak’s essays have appeared in Pangyrus, Bellevue Literary Review, Technology Review, and other publications.
