Jessie L. Moore, PhD, is director of the Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) and professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University.

As CEL’s director, Jessie leads planning, implementation, and assessment of the Center’s research seminars, which support international, multi-institutional, and multi-disciplinary inquiry on focused engaged learning topics. Her sustained leadership of the research seminars affords her the opportunity to look for through-lines and shared findings across these topics.

Jessie also produces the Center’s multimedia resources, including concise online guides on research-informed practices for engaged learning, videos, and podcasts. With Peter Felten, she edits two book series: the Stylus Publishing/Center for Engaged Learning Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching and the Center for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series.

Jessie is the co-editor of:

• Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning (with Caroline J. Ketcham and Anthony G. Weaver, Stylus, 2023)
• Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing (with Julia Bleakney and Paula Rosinski, CEL Open Access, 2022)
• Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (with Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler and Paul Miller, CUR, 2018)
• Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education (with Randy Bass, Stylus, 2017)
• Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer (with Chris Anson, The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2016/2017)

Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, International Journal for Academic Development,  Journal of Faculty Development, Journal of Second Language Writing, Journal on Centers for Teaching & Learning, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, TESOL Journal, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Written Communication, and in edited collections. In 2021, Jessie received Elon University’s Distinguished Scholar Award.

Jessie’s professional service to the scholarship of teaching and learning was recognized with the 2019 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Distinguished Service Award. She previously served as the elected Secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (2015-2019), on the Executive Committee for CCCC, as U.S. Regional Vice President of ISSOTL, and in other leadership positions for ISSOTL, TESOL, and the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators.