Provost's Office

Jeanne Hamming is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Gettysburg College. Previously, she served as Associate Dean and Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana, with an additional appointment in Communication Arts. At Centenary, she also served as English Department Chair and directed two programs: the First-Year Experience Program and the GreenHouse Living Learning Community.

In her current role, Jeanne supports learning assessment and Middle States accreditation activities, collaborates with colleagues across campus on retention initiatives, student success, and academic advising, and stewards implementation of Gettysburg's new core curriculum, including first-year critical skills courses and sophomore-year seminars focused on communities and change. She serves as administrative liaison for Gettysburg’s online Master of Arts in American History, a collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Institute and serving K-12 teachers, aspiring teachers, and educators at community colleges and the National Park Service. Jeanne also oversees two of the College's signature student summer research programs, The Cross-Disciplinary Science Institute (X-SIG) and the Kolbe Fellowship program. Additional responsibilities include managing departmental external reviews, coordinating student honors and awards, and coordinating delivery of the curriculum through course planning and scheduling.

As Associate Dean at Centenary College, Jeanne led implementation initiatives across Academic Affairs, serving on the Provost's Council and the President's Extended Cabinet. She directed the renovation and launch of the College's Learning Commons and Center for Teaching and Learning, co-locating student and faculty services including Academic and Disability Services, First-Year Student Success, Career Services, Global Engagement, and Community Engagement. Her portfolio included oversight of student success and retention efforts, the SACSCOC Quality Enhancement Plan for integrated and holistic advising, experiential learning programs (including the College’s Centenary in Paris and May Cultural immersion programs), academic advising, and the library strategic plan. She guided the visual rebranding and strategic development of Trek, the college's signature co-curricular program integrating first-year experience, community engagement, intercultural learning, and career development. She coordinated new faculty development, participated in multi-institutional grant-funded working groups on bias in faculty evaluation processes, and managed academic conduct and appeals. Jeanne's research examines intersections of technology, environment, and culture in contemporary American fiction, film, and popular media. She is co-author of Highways of the Mind (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014; republished as an open access resource, Futurama, Autogeddon, 2021), which explores corporate ephemera and literary responses to America's Interstate Highway System. Her scholarship has appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Extrapolation, Genders, The European Journal of Women's Studies, and Scientific American, among others. She has presented invited talks on digital scholarly production, sustainability pedagogy, climate change politics, and contemporary feminism.

Her teaching spans first-year writing, American literature surveys, seminars in the contemporary novel, queer literature and film, science fiction, digital rhetoric, environmental literature, and literary theory. She has led intercultural engagement courses with immersive experiences in France, Germany, Northern Ireland, and at Chimp Haven, the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

Jeanne earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in English from West Virginia University and her B.A. in Language and Literature from Grand Valley State University.