Jennifer Good

Director of Citizen Scholar Development

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst

MA. University of Iowa

B.A. University of Missouri Columbia 

Dr. Jennifer Good is a faculty member in the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, teaching German language and German Studies courses. In the Office of Engaged Learning, she is Director of Citizen Scholar Development & a Fulbright Program Advisor (FPA) in Fellowships & Awards. She teaches PPS1101 Learning for the World and PPS2101 Community-based Global Learning and serves as a mentor in both the Vardaman Scholars and Provost’s Scholars programs. 

Dr. Good teaches all levels of German students in language, literature, film and culture courses. Some of her favorite topics for research and teaching are: modern German-language authors such as Franz Kafka, Christa Wolf,  Heinrich Böll, Jenny Erpenbeck; Narratives of Immigration/Emigration in the German-speaking World; Social and Cultural History of East Germany; Germany after die Wende 1989/1990; Politics, Geography and Nature in the German Enlightenment. She has traveled with students to Germany on more than 10 occasions, often with Baylor in Germany which she is currently planning for an upcoming journey. Dr. Good is passionate about longer-term travel/research/study abroad and has mentored many successful Fulbright, RISE and DAAD award winners. She believes in the power of language study to deepen our appreciation, respect and knowledge about the world and her people. The human connections that come from learning the language(s) of others are what makes true hospitality possible. Don’t wait, learn a language, then study or intern or do research abroad while you are at Baylor University and Beyond.