Biographical Sketch

Jennifer Slack works in the areas of cultural studies, communication theory, culture and technology, and culture and environment.  She is active in the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association and reviews for many journals of communication and cultural studies. Positions held include book review editor of the journal Cultural Studies and President of the Philosophy of Communication Division of the International Communication Association.

Jennifer, under the name jd slack, is a pastel painter who exhibits and sells artwork and offers workshops in pastel techniques.

In addition to life as an academic and artist, Jennifer lives with her husband, Kenny Svenson, on a 40 acre farm, where they farm with work horses, keep chickens and dogs, tend a huge garden in the summer, and move a lot of snow in the winter.  The Keweenaw peninsula where they live averages about 300 inches of snow a year.
 

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