Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson
Senior Lecturer
English and Creative Writing
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."
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."
Research 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.
