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  • Comment: Needs to reference significant coverage about Jackson in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Apart from two awards, all the references are to her own work. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:30, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Virgina Jackson

Virginia Jackson is UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is one of the founders of historical poetics and of the new lyric studies. Her research includes nineteenth-century American poetry, the history of American poetry, comparative literature, lyric theory, the history of criticism, the history of poetics, and genre theory.

Jackson is the author of the definition of "Lyric" in the most recent edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.[1]. With Yopie Prins, she is the editor of The Lyric Theory Reader. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)[2]

Jackson studied comparative literature at Princeton, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1995. She taught at Middlebury College, Boston University, Rutgers University, NYU, and Tufts University before accepting the endowed chair at Irvine in 2012. Her first book, Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (2005) won both the MLA Prize for a First Book[3] and the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa [4]

Publications

  • Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (Princeton University Press, 2005)[5]
  • On Periodization: Selected Essays from the English Institute (ed. ACLS e-book, 2010)[6]
  • The Lyric Theory Reader (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)[7]

References

  1. ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. ", Princeton University Press.
  2. ^ Jackson, Virgnia (2014). The Lyric Theory Reader — A Critical Anthology. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  3. ^ MLA Prize for a First Book. "Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book Winners", MLA, 2005. Retrieved on 3 December 2017.
  4. ^ Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa. "The Christian Gauss Award", Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2006. Retrieved on 3 December 2017.
  5. ^ Jackson, Virginia (2013). Dickinson's Misery : a Theory of Lyric Reading. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5075-4.
  6. ^ Jackson, Virginia (2010). On periodization : selected essays from the English Institute. Cambridge, Mass: English Institute In collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies. ISBN 978-0-9845562-0-5.
  7. ^ Jackson, Virginia (2014). The lyric theory reader : a critical anthology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-1200-9.

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