Roger Jackson, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• M.A., St. John’s College
• B.A., Brown University

Teaching Areas

• Composition
• British literature
• World literature
• Early modern English literature
• Literary research and methodologies

Research

• Seventeenth-century British poetry and prose
• Francis Bacon, John Donne, George Herbert, John Milton
• Classical reception
• Early modern rhetoric
• Metaphor and tropology

Publications

• “Ben Jonson and the Senecan Paradox of Long Life: The Cary-Morison Ode,” The Ben Jonson Journal 18.2 (2011):  187-210.
• “Francis Bacon and a Chinese Madness,” Notes & Queries 57.3 (2010):  415-418.