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Virginia Jackson
Education
B.A./M.A., UCLA
Ph.D., Princeton University
Curriculum Vitae
Please click here for Professor Jackson's Curriculum Vitae.
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
- Comparative Poetics
- The History of Literary Criticism
- American Poetry in Public
- The History of American Literatures
- Feminist Criticism
Courses Taught
- Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
- American Literature to 1855
- Thinking About Poetry
- American Poetry in Public
- Sex in American Literature
- Edition and Revision in American Poetry
- Whitman's New York
Publication Highlights
Book
Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric
Reading (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2005).
Winner of the 2006 Christian Gauss Award,
Phi Beta Kappa
Winner of the 2005 Modern Language
Association Prize for a First Book
Articles
"Who
Reads Poetry?" in PMLA, vol. 123,
no. 2, January, 2008
"The
Story of Boon; or, Parables of the Poetess,"
in ESQ: A Journal of the American
Renaissance (special issue on
nineteenth-century American poetry,
December, 2008)
"Bryant's Romanticism," in The
Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century
Trans-Atlantic Poetry, ed. Meredith
McGill (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
"Beforehand," from Dickinson's
Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading
(Princeton University Press, 2005)
Notes for "Beforehand"
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