ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Humanities & General Education, Regis College, Fall 2018 – Present
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Advisor, Hemetera Literary Journal, Regis College, 2019 – Present
Advisor, The Veritas News student newspaper, Eastern Nazarene College, 2011 – 2014
Coordinator, Writing and Communications Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009 – 2011
VISITING & ADJUNCT POSITIONS
Teaching Assistant, HIST 7219: Humanities Data Analysis, Northeastern University, Spring 2017
Instructor, English Department, Northeastern University, 2016 – 2017
Writing Consultant, The Writing Center, Northeastern University, 2014 – 2015
Lecturer, Language, Theater & Comm. Arts, Eastern Nazarene College, 2011 – 2014
Adjunct Professor, Business Writing, New England Coll. of Business, 2011
Adjunct Professor, English Department, New Jersey City University, 2009 – 2010
Adjunct Professor, English & Comm Departments, Gordon College, 2007 – 2008
Adjunct Professor, English Department, Endicott College, 2006
Graduate Assistant, English Department, University of Massachusetts, 2004 – 2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Viral Texts Project, Northeastern University, 2015 – Present
Research Assistant, Women Writers Project, Northeastern University, 2017 – 2021
WRITING, EDITING & PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
Editor, Literary Journalism, 2022 – Present
Managing Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2015 – 2018
Editor, PatrolMag.com, 2009 – 2014
Staff Writer, The Jersey City Independent, 2009 – 2012
Freelance Writer, Various Publications, 2005 – Present
EDUCATION
PhD, English, Northeastern University, 2018
Dissertation: “Setting the Record Straight: Women Literary Journalists Writing Against the Mainstream. Committee: Dr. Carla Kaplan (co-chair), Dr. Ryan Cordell (co-chair), Dr. Hillary Chute
Master of Arts, English, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2005
Thesis: “Can Anything Good Come From Beverly: Stories.” Advisor: Askold Melnyczuk
Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature, Gordon College, 2003
FIELDS OF STUDY
Literary Journalism, writing studies, digital humanities, media studies, American religion
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Kaneb Faculty Grant, Regis College, 2022 – 2023
City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press, NEH Summer Institute, Summer 2020
Faculty Development Grant, Regis College, 2018 – 2019
Humanities Center Resident Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2017 – 2018
NULab Travel Grant, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Northeastern University, Fall 2016
Keystone DH Student Bursary, University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Penn State University, March 2016
NULab Fellowship, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Northeastern University, Fall 2015 – 2017
ACH Bursary, The Association for Computers and the Humanities, Keystone DH Conference, University of Pennsylvania, July 2015
SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT
Writing with Style, Regis College
Reading, Thinking, and Writing I & II, Regis College
Digital Scholarship, Regis College
Stories of Belief, Regis College
Rhetoric: The Art of Written Communication, Regis College
Ethnicity in Modern American Culture, Regis College
Exploring Ethics, Regis College
Jesus: Myth & Reality, Regis College
Humanities Data Analysis (TA), Northeastern University
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines, Northeastern University
Writing Across Mass Media, Eastern Nazarene College
Intro to Media Studies, Eastern Nazarene College
Feature Writing & Beat Reporting, Eastern Nazarene College
Editing & Publishing, Eastern Nazarene College
Writing for College, Eastern Nazarene College
Reading for College, Eastern Nazarene College
Business Writing & Communication, New England College of Business (online)
Writing & Communications Colloquium, Stevens Institute of Technology
English Composition I, NJCU
Writing & Rhetoric, Gordon College
Writing for the Media, Gordon College
Seminar in Academic Inquiry, Endicott College
Introduction to Western Literature (TA), UMass, Boston
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Books & Chapters
How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists, University of Massachusetts Press, July 2023
Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth Century American Newspapers, with Ryan Cordell, David A. Smith, and Abby Mullen, University of Minnesota Press, Under Contract
“(Theory and) Skills to Pay the Bills: A Both/And Approach to Teaching DH to Undergraduates” in What We Teach When We Teach DH, University of Minnesota Press, January 2024
“This Protestant World” in Wise Blood: A Reconsideration, Rodopi Press, July 2011
Selected Articles
“The Continuous Line: Visualizing the History of American Literary Journalism,” Medien & Zeit, Spring, 2022
“Nineteenth Century Women Writers & the Sentimental Roots of Literary Journalism,” Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 9. No. 2, Fall 2017
“New Kenyan Writers: The Narratives of Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Owuor,” Journal of African Literature, No. 6, December 2009
Selected Reviews & Informal Writing
Blog Post: “Fitzgerald on The Continuous Line: Visualizing the History of American Literary Journalism”, The Intelligencer (Blog of the American Journalism Historians Association), July 2017
Book Review: “Hillbilly Heaven, Hillbilly Hell: Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier”, Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 7. No. 1, Spring 2015
PUBLIC WRITING
Essay: “College changed my life. I want the same for my students—with less debt”, Cognoscenti – WBUR, September 2022
Essay: “All Americans deserve paid parental leave”, Cognoscenti – WBUR, October 2021
Feature: “Health-conscious millennials are driving a boom in nonalcoholic beer”, The Boston Globe Magazine, May 2021
Cover Story: “Chaplains and the rise of on-demand spiritual support”, The Boston Globe Magazine, March 2021
Article: “Leaders’ empathy matters in the midst of a pandemic”, The Conversation, May 2020
Perspective: “Everyone knows English majors can’t get jobs. Except the employers who hire them”, The Boston Globe Magazine, November 2018
Feature: “Boston career changers can find plenty of helping hands”, The Boston Globe Magazine, April 2016
Blog Post: “Coming Out from the Cloister”, GradHacker – InsideHigherEd.com, June 2015
Blog Post: “Parenting in Public”, GradHacker – InsideHigherEd.com, April 2015
Op-Ed: “Dear Gordon College, You Do Not Speak For Me”, Cognoscenti – WBUR, July 2014
Book Review: Jeff Sharlet’s ‘Radiant Truths’: How Religion Shaped American Literary Journalism”, The Daily Beast, May 2014
Article: “Boston Marathon Bombings: Making Sense of the Social Media Blitz”, Time.com, April 2014
Article: “From Modesty to Maxim”, On Faith, February 2014
Op-Ed: “Lena Dunham is the New John Updike – But Not in a Good Way”, Cognoscenti – WBUR, January 2014
Op-Ed: “The Tolerance Paradox”, Cognoscenti – WBUR, September 2013
Feature: “On a Mission to Save Godless Massachusetts”, The Boston Globe, August 2013
Book: Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better, Bondfire Books, January 2013 & Re-released by Rosetta Books, 2017
Article: “How to Write a Book without Paper”, TIME Magazine – Online, February 2013
Article: “Sincerity, Not Irony, is Our Age’s Ethos”, The Atlantic – Online, November 2012
Article: “How TV Killed the Republican Party’s Family Values”, The Daily Beast, November 2012
Article: “Caspian Make a Case for Post-Post Rock”, The Metro, September 2012
Op-Ed: “Can You Come to Jesus without Church”, The Wall Street Journal, January 2012
Article: “Whose College?”, Killing the Buddha, January 2011
Book Review: “Books from Brian McLaren and others”, The Star-Ledger, September 2010
Article: “Chinese Christians: Leading the Way”, Huffington Post, August 2010
Article: “Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism”, Religion Dispatches, July 2010
Op-Ed: “Winning Not Just Hearts, But Minds”, The Wall Street Journal, December 2009
Article: “Building a Peace Beyond Understanding”, Christianity Today, January 2009
Book Review: What is the What by Dave Eggars, Books and Culture, Spring 2007
DIGITAL PROJECTS
Women Writers Vector Toolkit
Link: lab.wwp.northeastern.edu/wwvt/
The Viral Texts Genre Automaton
Link: home.jonathandfitzgerald.com:3838/VT-Crowdsource/
The Continuous Line: Visualizing the History of American Literary Journalism, Spring 2017
Link: ljbib.jonathandfitzgerald.com
A ‘Stunning’ Love Letter to Viral Texts, Viral Texts Project, Fall 2015
Link: loveletter.viraltexts.org
3D Printed Pattern Poems, Spring 2015
Link: jonathandfitzgerald.com/blog/2015/05/05/re-presenting-early-modern-pattern-poems-as-material-objects.htmlScholarly Editing
Knowledge, Nature, Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities and Social Sciences, Contributing Editor,
Stevens Institute of Technology, Spring 2011
PRESENTATIONS
Paper: “Literary Journalism of the Ordinary”, The Seventeenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Gdansk, Poland, May 2023
Paper: “Blood & Guts: The Legacy of American Antinomianism”, 2022 New England American Studies Association Annual Conference, June 2022
Paper: “(Hard and Soft) Skills to Pay the Bills: A Both/And Approach to Teaching DH at Small Liberal Arts Colleges”, DHSI 2021: Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship, June 2021
Paper “Singing and Dancing Through the Unimaginable: Viewing Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist Through the Lens of Moral Sentimentalism”, 2021 Pop Culture Association Conference, June 2021
Paper: “‘Let’s All Drink from This Bitterness’: Empathy and Responsibility in the Work of Alexis Okeowo”, The Fifteen International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2021
Paper: “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy During, and About, a Pandemic” (with Leslie Mandel), The 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2021
Paper: “Forming the Whole Person and Teaching Against Oppression: The Centrality of the Humanities to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition” (with Joseph Draper and Heather Josselyn-Cranson), The Catholic Intellectual Tradition Conference, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, October 2020
Paper: “Painting (Inequality) By Numbers: Visualizing Gender Disparity in Literary Bibliographies”, The 134thMLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019
Poster: “Stranger Genres: Computationally Classifying Reprinted Nineteenth Century Newspaper Texts” (w/Ryan Cordell), DH 2018, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2018
Paper: “The Perpetual Next Big Thing: The Rapid Media Change Theory and the History of Literary Journalism”, The Thirteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Vienna, Austria, May 2018
Paper: “The Materials of Early Modern Poetry: 3-D Pattern Poems” (with Erika Boeckeler), The 133rd MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY, January 2018
Paper: “To See & Be Seen: Margaret Fuller and the ‘Pauper Establishments’”, American Studies Association 2017 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 2017
Work-in-Progress: “The Continuous Line: Visualizing the History of American Literary Journalism”, The Twelfth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2017
Paper: “Vignettes: Micro-Fictions in the Nineteenth Century Newspaper” w/Ryan Cordell, 2016 ALA Symposium: The American Short Story: An Expansion of the Genre, Savannah, GA, October 2016
Paper: “What Made the Front Page in the 19th Century?: Computationally Classifying Genre in ‘Viral Texts’”, 2016 Keystone DH Conference, University of Pittsburgh, June 2016
Project Showcase: “The InstaEssay Archive”, 2015 Keystone DH Conference, University of Pennsylvania, July 2015
Poster: “In Search of Marvin Gardens”, Green City Spaces: Design + History + Literature, Northeastern University, April 2015
Paper: “Re-Presenting Early Modern Pattern Poems as Material Objects”, Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Early Modern Era: 1500–1800, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2015
Paper: “Creating Futures for a New Generation of African Writers”, NEMLA 40th Convention, Boston, March 2009
Paper: “Radical & Relevant: Searching for a Culturally Significant Christ”, Christ in Cultures Conference, Gordon College, September 2006
INVITED TALKS
“The Other Fake News: Underrepresented Women Writers and the History of Literary Journalism”, Second Annual NULab Conference, March 2018
Computationally Classifying Viral Texts, DSG & NULab Fall Welcome Event, Northeastern University, September 2017
Know the News, Panel, Eastern Nazarene College, September 2016
Viral Texts: An Informal Talk & Discussion, Boston College, September 2016
Lecturer/Panelist, The Future of Christianity Conference, Quincy, MA, January 2013
Panelist, Religion Newswriters Association Conference 2012, Washington, DC, October 2012
On-air Commentary, “Dear Gordon College, You Do Not Speak For Me”, WBUR, July 2014
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Featured Guest, “Millennial Irony”, HuffPo Live, January 2013
Featured Guest, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, NPR/WBUR, December 2012
Featured Panelist, ABC News’ “Focus on Faith”, February 2011
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Curriculum and Academic Policies Committee, Chair, Regis College, Fall 2020 – Present
First Generation Student Taskforce, Regis College, Fall 2020 – Present
President’s Lecture Series Committee, Regis College, Fall 2019 – Present
IRB Member, Regis College, Fall 2018 – Spring 2020
Panel Planning Committee Member, English Graduate Student Association Conference “The Imaginary”, Northeastern University, Spring 2016
Organizer
The Northern Shores Writers Retreat, Eastern Nazarene College, January 2013
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Council Member, Northeast American Studies Association, 2022 – Present
Discussant, Word Vectors for Thoughtful Humanists Institute, Northeastern University, May 2021
Panel Organizer, “The Obstacles & Opportunities of Doing DH at Small Liberal Arts Colleges”, ACH 2019 Conference, July 2019
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
HTML, CSS, XML/TEI, R, Shiny, Jekyll, WordPress, Omeka, Neatline, GIS, Gephi/Network Analysis
MEMBERSHIPS
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Northeast American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
