Jennifer Pollitt

Jennifer Pollitt

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Assistant Professor - Instructional

    Programs
    • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

    Assistant Director

    Programs
    • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Office Location

Mazur Hall, 816

Expertise

Sexuality and Gender Studies, Sexuality Education, LGBTQIA Civil Rights

Biography

Jenn is a sexuality educator, researcher, and activist. In addition to teaching Human Sexuality & Gender courses, she lectures and facilitates workshops for both academic and professional audiences including organizing the inaugural Men & #MeToo Conference in Philadelphia (2019). Her courses and programs explore sexual and erotic agency; LGBTQIA civil rights; reproductive rights; the intersection of sex, law and policy; gender equality; and popular culture and its role as the most influential source of informal sex education in American society.

She has developed comprehensive sexuality education curricula for the University of Sciences, the American Medical Student Association and Princeton University. Her pedagogical approach is tailored to convey foundational and advanced issues in sex, gender and politics to diverse audiences. The overarching goal in all of her work is to help people find their own voices and join the discourse around civil rights, class systems and social positionality.

She received her PhD in Human Sexuality and Masters in Education from Widener University, where she is a member of Gamma Eta Rho, the National Honor Society in Human Sexuality.

Selected Publications

  • Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, J.L. Pollitt & Annalisa Castaldo (2015) Becoming kink-aware – a necessity for sexuality professionals, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 30:2,196-210, DOI: 10.1080/14681994.2014.975681 

Courses Taught

  • Foundations in Women's Studies
  • Men & Masculinities
  • Sexuality & Disability
  • Sexuality Education 
  • Field Work