"In my courses I try to instill a sense of community among my students in the midst of what, at a vibrant research institution, can sometimes seem like an impersonal environment. Making unfamiliar literature and historically distant cultures relevant and ‘respectable’ to a diverse body of students—and making those objects of study worthy of their time and energy—is a challenge that I enjoy. I’m especially gratified when my students learn, and even come to love, these unfamiliar texts and contexts.

• American Gothic
• British-American Survey
• Gospel of Realism
• Introduction to the Novel
• Law and Literature
• Postbellum Literature of Urban Reform
• Shakespeare

• American Religious Vernaculars
• Anglo-American Puritan Literature and Culture

• Best Paper Prize for “What Would Jesus Do?,” Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association, October 2005
• CLS-Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow, 2005
• Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Arizona, 2003

• "Cultivating Spiritual Sight: Jacob Riis's Virtual-Tour Narrative and the Visual Modernization of Protestant Homiletics"
  Representations 83, Summer 2003
• "'A Dowry of Suffering': Consent, Contract, and Political Coverture in John W. De Forest's Reconstruction Romance" 
  ALH: American Literary History 15.2, Summer 2003

PhD, University of California, Los Angelos
BA, Oregon State University
BS, Oregon State University

• "Gregory S. Jackson - New Faculty Profiles" by Michael Warner 
  (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
• Gregory S. Jackson Awarded both a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence and a Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2009