Editor Biography - Jane Jacobi
Name: Jane Jacobi
Undergraduate:
BA, English
Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
Graduate:
MA, English
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Teaching and Editing Experience:
35 Years
Jane Jacobi was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. She was a dreamy bookworm as a child. She received her B.A. in English from Saint Olaf College and her M. A. in
English from the University of Oregon. Her specialization in her graduate studies was Victorian literature and art, especially that of the Pre-Raphaelites. She has done
freelance editing and ghost writing for major publishing houses and academic presses. She taught college-level composition, literature, technical writing, business
writing, and scientific communication for 20 years before switching to academic program administration and development. She currently holds a position at Clemson
University in the Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films, where she manages large, interdisciplinary proposal efforts to secure funding from federal agencies
and corporate foundations. Jane is also Associate Director of the Southeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, an NSF-sponsored partnership aimed at
increasing the numbers of minority students receiving PhDs in science and engineering. In her spare time, she is the Managing Editor for the Journal of
Histotechnology. Jane is also a semi-professional, classically trained soprano and frequently performs in her community.
Favorite
Books:
- Abundance, by Sena Jeter Naslund
- Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
- Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- All of the books in the In Death series by J. D. Robb (a guilty pleasure)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
- The Master Butcher’s Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
- My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk
- Possession, by A. S. Byatt
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind
- Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
- The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
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