Overview

Dr. Bernhard-Jackson is a novelist who also teaches and researches in Romanticism and in Academic Writing. She undertook her undergraduate and postgraduate work in the United States:  she has an M.A. from Boston College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

These days, Dr. Bernhard-Jackson's main area of interest is writing: both Creative Writing and Academic Writing and Composition Studies.  She firmly believes that teaching students to write in what is conventionally considered a good way is the key to their future power and influence. 

Dr Bernhard Jackson is also a Byronist, and in addition works on the connection between authors’ bodies and the work they produce, as well as connections between David Bowie and Romanticism.

Her surname actually is "Bernhard Jackson." It drives her crazy when people refer to her as "Dr. Jackson."

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Research

• Composition Studies 
• Long-Form Fiction
• Lord Byron 
• David Bowie
• Victorian Literature
• New Romanticism
• Robert Louis Stevenson 
• Skeptical Philosophy

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Supervision

I would be open to supervising Creative Writing Ph.D.’s, as well as work on Lord Byron, contemporary popular music, and Composition and Rhetoric.

As a creative writing supervisor, I am delighted to supervise in prose and poetry, with the exception of genre fiction (e.g., fantasy, science fiction).

My own critical approach is historicist, with a deep interest in cultural studies and close reading of primary texts.  

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Publications

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2025

• Bernhard Jackson E. (2025) Missing, Simon and Schuster.

2023

• BernhardJackson E. (2023) What We Talk About When We Talk About Bowie: David Bowie and Enlightenment Philosophies of Identity, PRAXIS (Romanticism).

2021

• Bernhard E. (2021) Designs on the Dead, National Geographic Books.

2019

• Bernhard E. (2019) The Books of the Dead, Crooked Lane.

2018

• Bernhard E. (2018) Death in Paris.
• BernhardJackson EA. (2018) 'Sometimes I feel like the whole human race': Lord Byron and David Bowie Consider the Question of Identity, Byron Journal, volume 46, DOI:10.3828/bj.2018.17.
• BernhardJackson EA. (2018) 'Bliss was it in that shirt to be alive': Connecting Romanticism and New Romanticism Through Dress, Rock and Romanticism, Palgrave, 45-59, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-72688-5_3.

2017

• BernhardJackson EA. (2017) Love in the First Degree: Manfred, Byron, and Incest.

2014

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2014) 'Closer than an Eye’: Twins, Twinship, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies.

2013

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2013) Twins, Twinship, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Victorian Review, volume 39, no. 1, pages 70-86, DOI:10.1353/vcr.2013.0014. [PDF]
• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2013) Using Robert Louis Stevenson’s Essays in the Writing Classroom, MLA Approaches to Teaching Robert Louis Stevenson, MLA.

2011

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2011) Underground Knowledge: The Prisoner of Chillon and the Genesis of Byronic Understanding, Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism, volume 17, no. 2.
• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2011) Swimmers, trimmers, and jacks of all trades: Byron's paradoxical struggle for poetic dominance, European Romantic Review, volume 22, no. 6, pages 833-845, DOI:10.1080/10509585.2011.615998.

2010

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2010) Least Like Saints: The Vexed Issue of Byron’s Sexuality, The Byron Journal, volume 38, no. 1.
• Bernhard Jackson EA, Bernhard Jackson EA. (2010) The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge: Certain in Uncertainty, Palgrave.

2009

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2009) Plunging into the Crowd: Islands and Selves in Byron, Byron and the Isles of the Imagination, Context Publishing, 107-134.
• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2009) “Plunging into the Crowd: Islands and Selves in Byron.”, Byron and the Isles of the Imagination, Context Publishing, 107-134.

2007

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2007) Manfred's mental theater and the construction of knowledge, SEL - Studies in English Literature, volume 47, no. 4, pages 799-824, DOI:10.1353/sel.2007.0038.

2006

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2006) The Harold of a new age: Childe Harold I and II and Byron's rejection of canonical knowledge, Romanticism on the Net, no. 43, DOI:10.7202/013594ar.
• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2006) The Harold of a new age: Childe Harold I and II and Byron's rejection of canonical knowledge, Romanticism on the Net, no. 43.
• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2006) The Harold of a new age: Childe Harold I and II and Byron's rejection of canonical knowledge, Romanticism on the Net, no. 43.

2005

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2005) "Ah, who can love the worker of her smart?": Anatomy, religion, and the puzzle of amoret's heart, Spenser Studies, volume 20, pages 107-135, DOI:10.1086/SPSv20p107.

2004

• Bernhard Jackson EA. (2004) "Ah, who can love the worker of her smart?": Anatomy, religion, and the puzzle of Amoret's heart, Spenser Studies, volume 19, pages 107-135.

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External impact and engagement

Media

Dr Bernhard Jackson contributes to the Times Literary Supplement, the Literary Review, BBC Radio Devon, and Radio 4.

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Teaching

Modules taught

• EAS1037 - The Novel
• EAS1038 - The Poem
• EAS2029 - Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings

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Biography

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Bernhard Jackson grew up in the lively metropolis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She undertook her undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa, then took a long pause before pursuing her postgraduate degrees in the Boston area: she has an M.A. from Boston College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.  After leaving Brandeis, she became an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas (2005-11), then the Writing Skills Director at Homerton and Robinson Colleges, Cambridge University, as well as Director of Studies for Part I of English at Robinson (variously, 2009-12).

Dr. Bernhard Jackson has a fascination with clothing both inside and outside of literature, and is a keen fan of The Divine Comedy (the band); she has a remarkable knowledge of the trivia of 1980s pop music.  She admires a well-turned sentence and has for many years deplored the comma splice. It drives her crazy when people call her "Dr. Jackson": it really is "Bernhard Jackson."

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