Jeffrey E. Jackson is a professor of the “long nineteenth century” in British literature. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on British Romanticism, Gothic fiction, Victorian literature, literary theory, serial fiction, the rise of the nineteenth-century novel in Britain, terrorism in British literature and popular culture, and literature-to-film adaptation. He has published articles on such topics as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and teaching with film in the literature class. Spring 2023 he will be offering a new special topics course on revivals of the Arthurian legend and materials during the Victorian period.

Education

Ph.D., Rice University

M.A., Portland State University

B.A., Linfield College

Research Interests

British Romanticism, the nineteenth-century British novel, book history, print culture, film/literature adaptations.

Scholarly Articles

“The Once and Future Sword: Excalibur and the Poetics of Imperial Heroism in Idylls of the King.” Victorian Poetry 46:2 (Summer 2008): 207–29.

“Elizabeth Gaskell and the Dangerous Edge of Things: Epigraphs in North and South and Victorian Publishing Practices.” Pacific Coast Philology 40:2 (2005): 56–72.