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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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Department of English
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