Cj Jackson

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Assistant Professor

2415 Hart Hall

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. 

Education and Degree(s)
  • 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
Honors and Awards
  • 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
Courses
  • NAS 180 — Native American Women’s Literature
  • NAS 254 — Native American Literature
  • NAS 298 — Group Study for Graduate Students working as Associate Ins (AIs)
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Native and Indigenous Literatures
  • Poetry Theory
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Enviromental Humanities
  • Cultural Studies
Publications
  • [In Press]. “Snowmaking: A Native Poetics of Winter, Mountains, and Bathing.” Indigenous Poetics Anthology, Michigan State Press, 2024.
  • “stories, surviving, and what can a poem do? in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians” in the Special Edition issue "Still Bad Indians" from the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 47(3), 2024.
Membership and Service
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
  • American Studies Association (ASA)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)