Assistant Professor of African American Literature
Year Joined RCNJ: 2020
Contact Information
- Phone: 201-684-7207
- Email: ijackso2@ramapo.edu
- Office: B-143B
- Office Hours: TF 11:00-1:30 pm
Education:
- M.A., The Ohio State University
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Courses Offered:
- African American Literature
- Gaming and Literature
- Multicultural Literature: Voices of Protest
- Southern Literature: Ethics, Literature and the American South
- Critical Reading and Writing
Teaching Interests:
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African American literature after 1945
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Social justice
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Digital cultures
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Cultures of the American South
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Policing, criminality and mass incarceration
Research Interests:
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The Black Power Era
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Afro-Pessimism
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Anti-Black Surveillance
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Social Death
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African American Life Writings
Scholarly Activity:
- “Book Review: Devorah Heitner, Black Power TV” Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, vol. 4, no. 2, 2016, pp. 109-111.
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