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 10:00-11:30 am

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:

• African American literature after 1945
• Social justice
• Digital cultures
• Cultures of the American South
• Policing, criminality and mass incarceration

Research Interests:

• The Black Power Era
• Afro-Pessimism
• Anti-Black Surveillance
• Social Death
• 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.