Rate My Professor Amy Petersen

Amy Petersen Jensen serves as Associate Dean in Brigham Young University's College of Fine Arts and Communications, overseeing faculty development and research, directing the Faith + Works faculty lecture series, and acting as Executive Producer of the BRAVO Professional Performing Arts Series. As Professor in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts, she teaches arts education courses for undergraduate pre-service teachers and master's candidates in theatre and media arts education. She previously chaired the Department of Theatre and Media Arts, coordinated the undergraduate Theatre and Media Education Program and the Media Education Master's Degree Program, and directed the "Hands on a Camera" service-learning project training youth in media literacy and production. A former public school teacher, Jensen holds a BA (1990) and MA (1997) from Brigham Young University and a PhD (2003) in theatre history, theory, and criticism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with emphasis on youth culture and media studies.

Her scholarship focuses on theatre education, theatre for young audiences, multimodal literacies, and drama education, garnering over 1,578 citations. Notable publications include her book Theatre in a Media Culture: Production, Performance and Perception Since 1970 (McFarland, 2007); co-edited volumes (Re)imagining Literacies for Content-area Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Arts Education and Literacies (Routledge, 2015); and articles such as "The past, present, and future of media literacy education" (Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2009, 964 citations) and "Social emotional learning and the national core arts standards" (Arts Education Policy Review, 2021). She received the Brigham Young University Young Scholar Award in 2009. Jensen delivered BYU forum addresses including "Why Our Bodies Matter in a Digital World" (2021) and "Some Hopeful Words on Media and Agency" (2012), co-edited the Journal of Media Literacy Education, served as General Editor of the Youth Theatre Journal, and chairs the College Board’s Arts Academic Advisory Committee, advising on Advanced Placement arts courses.