Position Title
Assistant Professor
Cj Jackson (Diné) is a current assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. Their research areas include Native American and Indigenous Studies, literature (poetry & poetics), approaches to gender and sexuality, environmental humanities, and theories of dispossession, with particular attention to Diné ontologies and the cultural identity of the Navajo Nation.
Prof. Jackson conducts work in literature and performance and examines political movements to interrogate forms of nation, gender, and politics, defamiliarizing narratives of power culminating in gendered hierarchies and colonial eco-imaginaries. Their developing book project, Untitled, examines the emergence of political consciousness on the Navajo Nation as a state apparatus and the queer contours of Diné resistance in literature, art, and social organizing.
DE affiliated faculty in:
- Environmental Humanities (EVH)
- Critical Empire and Militarism Studies (CEMS)
- Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies (WRaCS)
- 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 2V — Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies
- NAS 180 — Native American Women’s Literature
- NAS 182 — Native American Fiction (topic: Indigenous Speculative Fiction)
- NAS 235 — Native American and Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
- NAS 254 — Native American Literature (topic: Indigenous Poetry)
- Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS)
- Literature
- Gender and Sexuality
- Enviromental Humanities
- Cultural Studies
- Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
- American Studies Association (ASA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)