Bob Jackson

Biography

Robert Jackson works in American cultural studies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, focusing on interdisciplinary connections among literature, film and media, and social history. His first book examined uses of region by American fiction writers since the Civil War.

Research Interest

Spatial discourses (from the regional to the transnational, and including architecture, urban planning, and environmental studies), Race relations (particularly the history and legacies of segregation in the United States, Media technologies from early cinema to new media.