Author Page for Amy Petersen-Jensen

Amy Petersen Jensen, PhD., is Associate Professor in the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University, where she coordinates the undergraduate Theatre and Media Education Program as well as the Media Education Masters Degree. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Jensen directs the Theatre and Media Arts Department Hands on a Camera service-learning project, in which theatre and media education university students work with in-service public school educators to train young people in media literacy and production skills. Dr. Jensen has received Laycock, Fulton and Utah Humanities grants for Hands on a Camera, The Daylight Media Project, a curriculum database for film studies teachers in the public school system, and the Film and Culture Series, a media literacy project that brought high school teachers and their students to Brigham Young University to study cultural theory as it related to contemporary film texts.

A former public school teacher, Dr. Jensen holds a PhD. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism with a special emphasis in youth culture and media studies. Recent publications Pedagogy, Process and Visual Anthropology, and Interstitial Performance: Creating Meaning with Young People in the Space Between Theatre and Media Texts reflect her continued interest in the interface between process drama, youth culture, and media studies.