English Department
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Louisville
Fields: Writing Program Administration, Writing Assessment, Writing in the Disciplines, Language & Literacy Ideologies, Transgender Studies
Email: ncjackso@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-2364
Office: Fenwick 211
PO Box: 47A
Office Hours: MWF 10-11 AM and by appt.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Academic Writing
- Intermediate Academic Writing
- Writing for Social Change
- Transgender Rhetorics
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Literary Theory
- Introduction to Literary Study
- Masterpieces of American Literature
Recent Publications
Jackson, N.C., Morrison, G., and Stefan, H.C. (Forthcoming). Subverting elitism with equitable assessment at a New England SLAC. In M. O’Neill and G. Giaimo (Eds.), Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges. Parlor Press.
Jackson, N.C. and Klotz, S. (2023). Drawing on our Jesuit mission to make the case for rhetoric: A profile of the rhetoric and composition minor at Holy Cross. Composition Forum, 51.
Swatek, A.M., Taşkin, Z., and Jackson, N.C. (2022). Revisiting “family matters”: How citation patterns in the Journal of Second Language Writing reveal the changing nature of the second language writing field and the decreasing role of composition & rhetoric in it. Journal of Writing Analytics, 6, 145-165.
Jackson, N.C. and Olinger, A.R. (2021). Preparing graduate students and contingent faculty for online writing instruction: A responsive and strategic approach to designing professional development opportunities. In J. Borgman and C. McArdle (Eds.), PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors (pp. 225-242). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
Jackson, N.C. (2020). “There is no question about this and there never has been for eight years”: The public reception of Christine Jorgensen. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 22(4).
Horner, B., Cousins, E.Y., Hilberg, J., Jackson, N.C., Rodriguez, R., and Way, A. (2019). Translingual approaches to writing and its instruction, WPA-CompPile research bibliographies, no. 28. WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies.