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Gregory Jackson
Gregory Jackson
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information
Office: Murray Hall, 205C
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: greg.jackson@rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-8368
Office Hours:

Mondays and Thursdays

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Wednesdays 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Specialization
Colonial and nineteenth-century American literature; Anglo-American religious culture
Biography

B.A., B.S., Oregon State; Ph.D., UCLA

Professor Jackson specializes in nineteenth-century and early American literature, especially postbellum literature and the political and religious history of the Social Gospel and the Progressive Era.  His work has appeared in such venues as PMLA, American Literary History, and Representations.  His book, The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in fall 2008), focuses on Protestant pedagogy, homiletic narrative, and devotional readerships across the Reformation and into modern evangelical culture.

Awards: American Council of Learned Socities (ACLS) Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, 2004-5

Publications

"Cultivating Spiritual Sight: Jacob Riis's Virtual-Tour Narrative and the Visual Modernization of Protestant Homiletics." Representations, No. 83. Summer 2003.

"'A Dowry of Suffering': Consent, Contract, and Political Coverture in John W. De Forest's Reconstruction Romance." American Literary History, Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2003.

Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Postbellum Literature of Urban Reform

Law and Literature

British-American Survey

American Gothic

Introduction to the Novel

Shakespeare

Gospel of Realism

American Religious Vernaculars

Anglo-American Puritan Literature and Culture

 

 

 

 
 
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