Tony
Jackson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
- M.A., University of Oregon
- B.A., University of South Carolina at Columbia
Areas of Interest
- Literary theory
- Narrative theory
- History of the novel
- Cognitive literary studies
- British literature
- Book-length project on writing as a technology and the novel as genre
Book:
The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Selected Publications & Presentations
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“Writing, Orality, Cinema: The ‘Story'of Citizen Kane”, forthcoming January 2008 at Narrative.
---“‘Graphism’ and Storytime in Memento.“ Mosaic
40:3 (2007): 51-66.
---“The De-Composition of Writing in A Passage to India.” Journal of Modern Literature. 29:3 (2006): 1-18.
Jackson, Tony. “Explanation,
Interpretation, and Close Reading: the Progress
of Cognitive Poetics.” Forthcoming at Poetics
Today 26:3 (Fall 2005): 171-185.
---. “Writing and the Disembodiment of Language.” Philosophy and Literature 27:1 (2003): 115-132.
---. “‘Literary Interpretation’ and Cognitive Literary Studies.” Invited Response for Special Issue The Cognitive Turn?: A Debate on Interdisciplinarity. Poetics Today 24:2 (Summer 2003): 191-205.
---. “R. D. Laing, Doris Lessing and Cold War Madness.” Doris Lessing Studies 22:2 (Spring 2002): 11-17.
---. “Issues and Problems in the Blending of Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Study.” Invited Response Essay for Special Issue Literature, Culture, and the Cognitive Revolution. Poetics Today 23:1 (Spring 2002): 161-179.
--- and Christiane Bongartz, “A Furious Sleep: Chomsky’s Linguistic Theory and Literary Criticism.” Literature and Linguistics: Approaches, Models, Applications: Studies in Honor of Jon Erickson Eds Marion Gymnioch, Ansgar Nunning and Vera Nunning. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002: 37-46.
---. Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending.” Narrative 8:3 (October 2000): 324-338.
---. “Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism.” Poetics Today 21:2 (Summer 2000): 319-347.
---. “The Manchurian Candidate and the Gender of the Cold War.” Literature/Film Quarterly 28.1 (January 2000): 34-40.
Courses Taught
Graduate
- English 5123: Modern British Novel
- English 6880: Narrative/Theory
- English 6101: Introduction to English Studies
- English 6070: The Art/Work of Film/Viewing
Undergraduate
- English 4124: Modern Irish Literature
- English 4123: Modern British Novel
- English 4050: The Art/Work of Film/Viewing
- English 3128: British Literature Since WWI
- English 3050H: Narratives of the Cold War
- English 3050: Contemporary British Fiction
- English 2128: Introduction to Fiction Writing
- English 2105: Introduction to Poetry
- English 2100: Writing about Literature
- English 3100: Approaches to Literature
- English 2090: Books into Film
- English 2070: Tuesday Night at the Movies
- English 2106: Film Criticism
- Liberal Studies 1102: Film and Culture
Professional Appointments
Idaho State University: 1993-1994
UNCC: 1994-present
Awards
- English Graduate Association Graduate Professor of the year: 2004-2005
- First Harshini Dasilva Award for Graduate Mentoring, April 18, 2001.
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