Position Title
Assistant Professor
Cj Jackson (Diné) is a poet, poetry theorist, and an assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies. Their work broadly encompasses cultural dispossession with a specialized interest in Native and Indigenous Literatures. They read Indigenous poetics as methodologies for examining relational ethics between peoples and places, especially those that have a long history of environmental harm as a result of capitalism and neoliberal thought and those which continue the displacement of queer Indigenous bodies. Central to Prof. Jackson’s work is the way queerness operates as an anti-colonial force. Prof. Jackson additionally works with other art-mediums, such as film, DIY Native heavy metal soundscapes, and Indigenous performances like drag.
- PhD., English (Literature), University of California, Riverside, 2023
- M.A., English (Literature), Northern Arizona University, 2018
- MCert., Women & Gender Studies, Northern Arizona University, 2018
- B.A., English Literature, Grand Canyon University, 2015
- B.A., Christian Studies, Grand Canyon University, 2015
- UC Davis Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Fall 2024
- University at Buffalo, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Indigenous Studies Department, 2023-24
- NAS 180 — Native American Women’s Literature
- NAS 254 — Native American Literature
- NAS 298 — Group Study for Graduate Students working as Associate Ins (AIs)
- Native and Indigenous Literatures
- Poetry Theory
- Gender and Sexuality
- Enviromental Humanities
- Cultural Studies
- [In Press]. “Snowmaking: A Native Poetics of Winter, Mountains, and Bathing.” Indigenous Poetics Anthology, Michigan State Press, 2024.
- [In Press]. “stories surviving and what can a poem do? in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2024.
- Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
- American Studies Association (ASA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)