
Professor Jackson earned a PhD in English and American literature at Stanford University, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the William J. Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review and Best American Essays have published his criticism and non-fiction. Norton 2017), The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics (Princeton 2010), My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War (Chicago 2012) and Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, 1913-1952 (Wiley 2002). Lawrence Jackson is the author of the award-winning books Chester B. Reception to follow.įor more information, contact Local Americanists Lecture Series Co-Chairs Robert Levine ( and Edlie Wong ( more about the Local Americanists series. Professor Jackson will discuss his new book Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West. Join the next Local Americanists works-in-progress event, featuring Lawrence Jackson, Johns Hopkins University. Awards in the Public Humanities: Research & Engagement (2022-2023)Ĭenter for Literary and Comparative Studies | English.Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.
