Assistant Professor of English - Program Leader MA English
Phone: (239)590-7423
E-Mail: kjackson@fgcu.edu
Office: RH 110

Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005

Teaching Interests: 19th Century British Literature, The Gothic, Literary Theory

Research Interests: Science and technology in literature, fin de siècle decadence, Gothicism

Professor Jackson began as Assistant Professor of English at FGCU in the fall of 2005. In addition to Composition I and II and Introduction to Literature, she has taught upper level courses including the Nineteenth Century British Novel (focusing on mad scientist texts), Romantic and Victorian Literature and Culture, and the Brontës. She also teaches Literary Theory. At the graduate level she has taught Dystopic Literature and Literature, Language, and Society, and will teach the Gothic in coming semesters. Professor Jackson’s research activities include being cofounder of the Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference at FGCU with Dr. Kevin Aho of Philosophy; publishing several article-length essays on Gothicism; and working on a manuscript for a project on the relationship between technology and literature called Techno-Human Infancy.

Publications
“Techno-Human Infancy in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring.” Accepted for a book project titled Tracing The Ring: Horror and Its Discontents in the Age of Symbolic Change. Ed. Kristin Lacefield.

“Editing as Plastic Surgery: The Swan and the Violence of Image-Creation.” Accepted for an upcoming issue of Configurations.
 
“Vivisected Language in H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau.” The Wellsian 29 (2006): 22-35.

“Gothic Music and the ‘Undead’ Individual.” The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest. Ed. Ian Peddie. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
 
“The Princess Casamassima.” Cyclopedia of Literary Place. R. Kent Rasmussen, ed. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2003.