JANA L. PICKART
EDUCATION
2026 Ph.D. Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2015 M.A. in Arts Politics, New York University
2010 B.A. in Anthropology, University of Mary Washington
TEACHING
Instructor of Record
At Suffolk University, Fall 2019-Spring 2021 (6 courses taught)
At Holyoke Community College, 2024-2025 (2 courses taught)
At Cape Cod Community College, 2020-2021 (1 course taught)
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024 Access to Success, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spring 2013 Cultural Work for Social Transformation, Brandeis University
RESEARCH
Honors, Awards, Fellowships & Grants
2024 Division G Travel Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
2023 College of Education Graduate Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2022 Division G Travel Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
2015 Art and Public Policy Summer Fellowship, New York University
2015 Tisch GSO Interdepartmental Collaboration Grant, New York University
2014 Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Scholarship, New York University
2013 Draper Tuition Scholarship, New York University
2013 Juniper Tuition Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2011 Summer Writers Tuition Scholarship, Sarah Lawrence College
2010 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Mary Washington
Publications
Pickart, J. L. & Barclay, S. (forthcoming). “Where do we exist? A call to queercrip joy in public space through stimming. In J.J. Wright and C. Burkholder (Eds.), Theorizing queer joy: Tracing the affective geographies of queer joy for social change.
Pickart, J. L. (2011, December 28). “Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands: An Interview with Anne Makepeace.” Boston Review.
Research Assistant
2014-2015 Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Randy Martin, New York University.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Papers Presented
Pickart, J. L. & Eid, L. “Exploring the Definition of Disability: A Comparative Analysis of Global Legal Frameworks.” Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, March 11, 2024.
Pickart, J. L. “Becoming Literature Beyond the White Gaze: Artmaking as Speculative Power in Adult ESOL Education.” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 15, 2023.
Pickart, J. L. “‘We must become undisciplined’: Using arts-based citational play to rupture assemblages of white supremacy.” GCWS Graduate Student Conference 2023: Liberating Temporality & Spatiality, MIT, Cambridge, MA, March 4-5, 2023.
Pickart, J. L. “Cartography of Erasure.” Art and Public Policy Summer Research Fellows Panel, New York, NY, October 7, 2015.
Pickart, J. L. “Korean Co-Ed Body Image.” Southern Anthropological Society Annual Meeting, Wilmington, NC, March 14, 2009.
Panels Organized
Pickart, J. L. Co-Chair with Caroline Chubbs and Ben Ray. “Responding to Academic Precarity with Fugitive Pedagogy: Creating Spaces for Freedom in Community.” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 15, 2023.
SERVICE
2025– Editorial Assistant, Equity & Excellence in Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2022-2024 Graduate Executive Committee, Division G, American Educational Research Association
2023-2024 Learning Specialist, Office of Disability Services, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2017-2019 ESOL Instructor, Jamaica Plain Community Centers’ Adult Learning Program
2013 Social Media Instructor, Brookline Community & Adult Education
2012-2013 Freelance Media Instructor, Cambridge Community Television
2011-2012 Editorial Assistant, Boston Review
CREATIVE PROJECTS
Summer 2022 Script Writer and Performer, “Vessels: The Sea is Gone.” Re/Emergence Collective, Bromery Center for the Arts.
Spring 2015 Poetry Director and Performer, “(Re)Sounding the City.” New York University.
CONTACT
jpickart (at) umass (dot) edu
Full CV and references available upon request.