Jennifer Jackl

Dr. Jennifer
Jackl

(She/Her)
Assistant Professor
Communicating Arts Department
Communicating Arts
Email:
Phone: 715-394-8022
Office: Holden Fine And Applied Arts Center 2106

About

Jennifer focuses on communication within and around interpersonal and family relationships. Her research seeks to further explore the ways individuals tell narratives to construct and maintain identity, affect interpersonal and family relationships, and cope with challenges. Specifically, she looks at a subset of personal narratives in her research – the untold stories of daily life. She has explored untold stories of romantic relationship origin, parenthood, and most recently unpaid, informal caregiving. Within each of these explorations of untold stories, she teases out how individuals use stories that are less frequently told, or difficult to tell, as ways of still constructing identity, making sense of their life experiences, and coping with the challenges these tales (often) embody.

Publications

  • Jackl, J. A. (2021-2022). “I know it seems weird, but don’t tell anybody”: Further exploring tellability in untold stories of caregiving. Western Journal of Communication.
  • Jackl, J. A., & McLaren, R. M. (2020). “Okay, I’m not alone”: Exploring parental communicative coping through untellable tales. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.
  • Jackl, J. A. & Taylor, H. (2020). “I would never want to go through that pain again, but I wouldn’t trade the marriage we have now for anything.”: Narrative meaning-making in tales of marital infidelity. Kentucky Journal of Communication (39). 4-21.
  • Jackl, J. A. (2018). “Do you understand why I don’t share that?”: Exploring tellability within untellable romantic relationship origin tales. Western Journal of Communication (82). 315-335. doi: 10.1080/10570314.2017.1347274
  • Crowley, J. L, & Jackl, J. A. (2018). Narrative engagement measure. Sourcebook of listening research measures and methodologies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Thomas, L. J., Jackl, J. A., & Crowley, J. L. (2017). “Family? . . . Not just blood”: Discursive constructions of “family” in adult former foster children’s narratives. Journal of Family Communication (17). 238-253. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2017.1310728
  • Jackl, J. A. (2017). Rules of telling: Exploring narrative adaptation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, (35). 26-283. doi: 10.1177/0265407516681539
  • Jackl, J. A. (2016). “Love doesn’t just happen…”: Parent-child communication about marriage. Communication Quarterly (64). 193-209. doi: 10.1080/01463373.2015.1103284

Education

  • 2017 – Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – Interpersonal Communication, The University of Iowa
  • 2013 – Master of Arts (M.A.) – Interpersonal Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • 2005 – Bachelor of Science (B.S.) – Public Relations and Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse