Jonathan Lehtonen
Jonathan has taught English and ESL courses at a variety of institutions, including Pennsylvania State University and the Community Language Program at Columbia University. While teaching ESL composition at Kean University, he is completing his final courses for a second master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, where his research centers on genre-based writing instruction and second language acquisition. Building on his training in English Renaissance studies and teaching both L1 and L2 college composition at Penn State, he has presented papers at conferences hosted by the American Comparative Literature Association, the Northeast Modern Language Association, and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. He has published work on Finnish and Sámi folklore and literature, and his areas of expertise also include place-based and environmentally-based approaches to teaching college composition.
Selected Publications
Lehtonen, J. (2019). Ecocomposition in the ESL Classroom: The campus space compare and contrast assignment. Languages 4(2). 13 pages.
Lehtonen, J. (2018). Kalevala ecology: Bioregional aesthetics and Sámi environmental autonomy. In Halmari, H., Kaukonen, S., Snellman, H., and Virtanen, H. (Eds.), The making of Finland: The era of the Grand Duchy. Special issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies 21(1/2), 46–81.
Lehtonen, J. (2021). [Review of the book By the fire: Sami folktales and legends, by E. Demant Hatt, trans. by B. Sjoholm]. Journal of Finnish Studies 24(1/2), 156–161.