Jeffrey Jackson, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Faculty
Department: English
Office: The Great Hall Annex 22
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m.; and by appointment.
Phone: 732-571-7545
Email: jejackso@monmouth.edu
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.
Courses
Recently Taught Classes
2023 Spring
- British Victorian Literature – EN 315
2022 Fall
- Cooperative Education: English – EN 488
- Foundations of British Literature – EN 227
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present – EN 202
- Seminar in English – EN 491
2022 Spring
- Criticism and Theory – EN 441
- Foundations of British Literature – EN 227
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present – EN 202
2021 Fall
- British Romantic Literature – EN 312
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present – EN 202
- Seminar in Literary Research – EN 502
2021 Spring
- Foundations of British Literature – EN 227
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present – EN 202
- Victorian Novel – EN 538
2020 Fall
- Literary Studies for English Majors – EN 226
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present – EN 202
- Seminar in Literary Research – EN 502
2020 Spring
Frequently Taught Classes
- British Romantic Literature (EN 312)
- British Romanticism (EN 537)
- British Victorian Literature (EN 315)
- Cooperative Education: English (EN 488)
- Criticism and Theory (EN 441)
- Foundations of British Literature (EN 227)
- Literary Studies for English Majors (EN 226)
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present (EN 202)
- Seminar in English (EN 491)
- Seminar in Literary Research (EN 502)
- Victorian Novel (EN 538)