Tim Jackson, PhD

Education & Licensure

• Ph.D. Editorial Studies, Boston University
• M.A. English, Bridgewater State University
• B.A. English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Biography

Tim Jackson’s teaching and research interests include poetry, the English Renaissance, Modernism, literature & religion, book history, writing, and archival studies.  

While focusing on poetry, he earned a Ph.D. in editorial studies from the Editorial Institute at Boston University, an M.A. in English from Bridgewater State University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

As a CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) Fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he served as an assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and was the initial executive editor of Zea E-Books.  

His professional experience includes editing text for traditional and digital publications in a variety of fields, such as poetry, philosophy, and business.  

Trained as a scholarly editor, he has edited two books of writings by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition (Yale UP, 2016) and Into the World’s Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Yale UP, 2023). His current book project, with Broadview Press, is an edition of Anna Katharine Green’s detective novel The Leavenworth Case.    

Beyond classes, beyond library research, feel free to start conversations with Jackson about ways to navigate a first-generation college experience, as well as ways to balance working a job, or jobs, while studying.  

Undergraduate Courses

• First-year Composition
• British Literature I
• British Literature II
• Classical Myth in Literature
• Introduction to Irish and Anglo/Irish Literature
• Medieval Literature
• Modern British Literature
• Blues and Jazz Literature
• 19th-Century British Novels
• Shakespeare
• Detective Genre
• Slow Reading Poetry
• The History of the Book
• Our Human Condition: World Literature: Ancient to Modern
• Fables, Folktales, and Fairy Tales

Publications (Selected)

• Editor, Into the World’s Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Yale University Press, 2023
• Editor, Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition. Yale University Press, 2016; paperback: 2022

Presentations (Selected)

• “‘Accidentally Like a Martyr’: Warren Zevon’s Lyrics as Poetry,” ALSCW (Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers) Conference (Nashville), November 3, 2018
• “‘Asceticized by Blasphemies’: Millay’s Popular and Subtle Language,” American Literature Association Conference (Boston), May 25, 2013

Fellowships

Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature, Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, University of Virginia, 2017

CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Academic Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009 – 2011