Lauren Jackson
Assistant Professor of English
member of the graduate faculty
- Office Hours: On Leave Fall 2024
Biography
Lauren M. Jackson (she/her/hers; Ph.D. English, University of Chicago) has research and teaching interests in affect, aesthetics, and the novel in contemporary African American literature. She also teaches courses in the Department of Black Studies.
Her current project examines forms of bad feeling in contemporary African American literature, reading these “bummer affects” as expressing the aesthetic problem of a definitionally black literature.
Her first book, White Negroes (Beacon, 2019), a collection of critical essays on appropriation in popular culture, was long-listed for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. Her second book, called “Back,” is forthcoming from Amistad Press/HarperCollins.
She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker.
Specializations
African American Literature, Creative Writing Nonfiction, 20th- & 21st-century American Literature, Critical Theory
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