About
Robert Jackson is a cultural historian of the modern and contemporary United States. Working in several areas of literary studies, film and media, and social history, he has written books on regional literature and film history and published scholarship in such journals as Modernism/modernity, American Literary History, the Southern Literary Journal, and the Journal of American History. He has edited special issues of James Baldwin Review, The Faulkner Journal, and The Global South, as well as a co-edited volume, currently under contract with Oxford University Press, titled “Jim Crow Modernism.” He is completing work on a new book about James Baldwin, Robert F. Kennedy, and culture and politics of the freedom movement in 1963.
Awards and Honors
Los Angeles Press Club National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award, 2018; James G. Watson Professor of English, The University of Tulsa, 2018; Faculty Fellowship, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, 2014, 2020; Seven Society Fellowship for Superb Teaching, University of Virginia, 2007; Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 2007; Mayonian Prize for Excellence in Writing, University of Virginia, 2006.
Education
- Ph.D., English, New York University
- Ph.D., History, University of Virginia
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Modern and contemporary American literary studies
- U.S. cultural and intellectual history
- Cinema and media studies
- African American studies
- U.S. southern studies
- The Global South