Jesi Halprin (she/her)
Assistant Professor College of Arts & Sciences Department of English Providence
Biography
After receiving her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton in 2020, Jesi Halprin began teaching as an adjunct professor in the Johnson & Wales English Department. She became a full-time faculty member in 2023.
Halprin views the classroom as a place not solely dedicated to acquiring technical knowledge and skills but where students should have the space to critically explore their interests, feelings and beliefs with their whole selves as part of self-actualization. This view reflects how she approaches her work, recognizing that her creative, scholarly and pedagogical interests are complex and inseparable lifelong endeavors.
"To teach is to be taught."
Education
MFA, Stony Brook University
Creative Writing and Literature
B.A., Monmouth University
English / Professional Writing/Photography