Lauren Jackson
Assistant Professor of English
member of the graduate faculty
- Office Hours: On Leave
Biography
Lauren M. Jackson (Ph.D. English, University of Chicago) teaches courses on American and African American literary and cultural production in the twentieth- and twenty-first century, focusing on affect, aesthetics, and the novel. Her first book White Negroes, published with Beacon Press in 2019, was short-listed for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. From 2021-22, she was a National Fellow at New America. Her articles and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, Journal of Popular Music Studies, The New Inquiry, New Literary History, The New Yorker, New York magazine, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, The Point, Rolling Stone, Feminist Media Studies, the Washington Post, and The Yale Review. She received the 2024 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker covering culture and politics.
Her second book, Back, forthcoming with Amistad Press/HarperCollins, explores the figure of the back in art and culture. Her next project, “The Comedown: Literary Devices After Black Literature” considers disaffection in contemporary literary works.
Specializations
African American Literature, Creative Writing Nonfiction, 20th- & 21st-century American Literature, Critical Theory
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