Jennifer Green

Biography

Dr. Jennifer Green began teaching journalism and media courses at CWU in 2008 after more than a decade as an international correspondent in Madrid, Spain. There, she did production work for ABC News, where she worked on stories like the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and Spain’s first female bullfighter, and she wrote for The Washington Post.

In Madrid, she honed a specialty covering the Spanish film industry for trade publications like The Hollywood Reporter and Screen International, and she continues to write about and review films for multiple media outlets, including The Seattle Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Hollywood Reporter, and Common Sense Media.

Her journalistic work inspired academic research and a dissertation on the changing US market for Spanish cinema over the last three decades, resulting in a doctoral degree through the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She also holds a Masters's in Cultural Anthropology from San Francisco State University and a Bachelors's in Comparative Literature (French and English) from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Before Central, Jennifer taught at Syracuse University’s study-abroad campus in Madrid. What she loves about teaching is working with and mentoring college-aged students who are full of energy and creativity. She gains inspiration from their openness to discovering and exploring new ideas, skills, and futures. She especially enjoys advising the award-winning, student-run media outlets, newspaper The Observer and PULSE magazine.

Jennifer also teaches film classes for the Film Program and the Douglas Honors College. In 2020, she was honored with Central’s Non-Tenure Track Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. When she’s not teaching, she can be found on the tennis court or in front of a movie screen. She enjoys spending time with her kids, her friends and family, and her dog and cat.

You can follow Jennifer’s work on her website, Films from Afar.