VCU Libraries Faculty Vita
Jennifer Stout
Undergraduate Research Librarian
(Instructor)
Teaching and Learning
Room 135, James Branch Cabell Library
(804)828-8557
jastout@vcu.edu
Education
M.S. Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
B.A. Anthropology, University of Mary Washington, 2008
Previous Professional Experience
Reference and Instruction Librarian, Doris and Harry Vise Library, Cumberland University, 2010-2012
Reference and Instruction Graduate Assistant, R.B. House Undergraduate Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009-2010
Reference Graduate Assistant, Walter Royal Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-2010
Graduate Research Consultant , Office of Undergraduate Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
Publications
Review of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women's Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration, by Jeffrey Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Library Journal, February 15, 2013
Review of The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable, by Robert Wuthnow, Library Journal, Novemeber 15, 2012
Review of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, by Hanne Blank, Library Journal, April 15, 2012
Review of Performing American Masculinities: The 21st Century Man in Popular Culture, edited by Elwood Watson and Marc Edward Shaw, Tennessee Libraries, vol. 61, iss. 3
Review of The Wedding Night: A Cultural History, by Jane Merrill and Chris Filstrup, Library Journal, XPress Reviews, June 16, 2011
Review of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, by Carol Faulkner, Library Journal, June 1, 2011
Review of Julian of Norwich, Theologian, by Denys Turner, Library Journal, April 15, 2011
Presentations
"Transforming the freshman experience in our library...and yours!" (2012). With Amber Woodard. Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference Poster Session, Knoxville, TN.
"Cool Virgins: The Discourse of Christian Abstinence Movements." (2008). Southern Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Staunton, VA.
"Hair and Femininity." (2007). Southern Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Oxford, MS.
University Committee Work
University College Curriculum Committee, 2012-present
Information Fluency Committee, 2012-present
VCU Libraries Committee Work
VCUL LibQual+ Survey Committee, 2013
VCUL LibGuides Review Group, 2013
Professional Organizations
Beta Phi Mu (International Library and Information Studies Honor Society), 2011-present
American Library Association, 2010-present
- ALA New Members Round Table, 2010-present