Jennifer Gilley

Director of Faculty Affairs and Head Librarian Penn State New Kensington

Librarian

Libraries Administration Dean's Office

Elisabeth S. Blissell Library, Penn State New Kensington

Blissell Library
3550-H 7th Street Road
New Kensington, PA 15068-1798

724-334-6076

724-334-6071 (department)

jrg15@psu.edu

http://sites.psu.edu/jennifergilley/

About Me

I am currently serving as the Director of Faculty Affairs, supporting library faculty by providing guidance and procedural support for the mentoring program, promotion and tenure processes, faculty evaluations, sabbaticals, recognition programs, and professional development opportunities, all in support of faculty excellence. I am also continuing as the Head Librarian at Penn State New Kensington where I have worked for 28 years, until it closes in June 2027.

Education History

MS, Library and Information Science - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1998

MA, Women's Studies - The Ohio State University - 1995

BA, English - Hiram College - 1994

Pure Profile

Research Interests

My research specialty is the history of feminist publishing.

Publications

Ghost in the Machine: Kitchen Table Press and the Third Wave Anthology that Vanished, Frontiers, 2017

Women’s Studies Information-Seeking: A State of the Union Address, NWSA Journal, 2007

Writings of the third wave young feminists in conversation, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2005

Great progress, great divide: The need for evolution of the recruitment model for women in engineering, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2005

Gender and Technology Awareness Training in Preservice Teacher Education, Tech Trends, 2002

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Pittsburgh's Man of Steel: Reading Joe Magarac Against the Context of the 20th Century Steel Industry, Journal of American Folklore, 1998

Other Publications

Chapters

Feminist Publishing/Publishing Feminism: Experimentation in Second Wave Book Publishing, This Book is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics, 2015

Book/Film/Article Reviews

Feminist Literacies, 1969-75 by Kathryn Thoms Flannery, and: The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order by Kate Eichhorn (review), American Periodicals, 2018

Magazine/Trade Publications

Information Science: Not Just for Boys Any more, American Libraries, 2006

Others

This book is an action: A case for the study of feminist publishing, International Journal of the Book, 2012

Publications Other Publications