Virginia Jackson

Virginia Jackson is UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading, which won the Christian Gauss Award, and Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. She is also the editor of On Periodization: Selected Papers from the English Institute and The Lyric Theory Reader (with Yopie Prins). Her latest book, Before Modernism: The Invention of American Poetry, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.