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Jenifer Jasinski Schneider, Ph.D.

Jasinski Schneider received her Ph.D. in Language, Literature and Reading Education from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on children’s composing processes and arts-based approaches to literacy education in which aspects of process drama and children’s literature support students' symbolic development and meaning-making strategies. 

Schneider studies how children express themselves through writing, reading, and technology. Her work explores the ways young people use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital tools to create texts, images, and performances that bring their ideas to life. Combining creativity with research, she uses arts-based approaches, such as process drama, children’s literature, and multimodal composition, to help educators understand and support how youth learn, think critically, and communicate in today’s world.

Through community-engaged projects, and working within designed field experiments, Schneider’s research addresses the changing set of strategies that students use to compose and communicate through print-based and multimodal texts. As a former Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, Schneider’s research also includes the study of Irish children’s literature and reading programs, an exploration of family literacy initiatives across different Irish community contexts and the examination of adult further education and digital literacy training models at the Waterford Institute of Technology.

Schneider served as the Director of the for 20 years, and she is the author of the open-access digital textbook, (USF Scholar Commons). She currently serves on the Board of the . She also holds professional memberships in the Literacy Research Association, International Literacy Association, National Council of Teachers of English and American Educational Research Association.