{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:38:35","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"TONY E. JACKSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tm-content-container\">\n<div id=\"node-94\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/tony_jackson_photo_thumbnail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/tony_jackson_photo_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"tony_jackson_photo_thumbnail\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>M.A., University of Oregon<\/li>\n<li>B.A., University of South Carolina at Columbia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Literary theory<\/li>\n<li>Film Studies<\/li>\n<li>Narrative theory<\/li>\n<li>History of the novel<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive literary\/film studies<\/li>\n<li>British literature<\/li>\n<li>Book-length project: <em>What Neuroscience Can Tell us about the Art of Imitation<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction<\/em>. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce<\/em>. University of Michigan Press, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Articles in Refereed Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oceania\u2019s Totalitarian Technology: Writing in <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<em>Criticism\u00a0<\/em>59:3 (Summer 2017): 375-393.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wayne.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=16585&amp;context=criticism\">http:\/\/digitalcommons.wayne.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=16585&amp;context=criticism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imitative Identity, Imitative Art, and <em>AI:Artificial Intelligence.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<em><i>Mosaic<\/i> <\/em>50.2 (June 2017): 47-63<em>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2018\/05\/Imitative-Identity-Imitative-Art-1.pdf\">Imitative Identity, Imitative Art<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Stories, New Explanations: Cognitive Literary Studies at Work.\u201d\u00a0<em>Poetics Today<\/em> 37:4 (December 2016): 697-703.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2018\/05\/New-Stories-New-Explanations.pdf\">New Stories, New Explanations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrime Time: Visual Cognition in the Prelude to<em> Citizen Kane<\/em>.\u201d <em>Style<\/em> 49:4 (Winter 2015): 494-511. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Prime-Time-Visual-Cognition-in-the-Prelude-to-Citizen-Kane.pdf\" rel=\"\">Prime Time Visual Cognition in the Prelude to Citizen Kane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the Novel Happened: A Cognitive Explanation.&#8221; <i>Philosophy and Literature <\/i><span class=\"a\">38: 1A (2014): <\/span><span class=\"a\">A75-A93. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Why-the-Novel-Happened-A-Cognitve-Explanation.pdf\">Why the Novel Happened&#8211;A Cognitive Explanation&#8221;<\/a><\/span><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial Neuroscience, the Imitative Animal, and Aronofsky\u2019s <em>Black Swan.<\/em>\u201d <em>Style <\/em>47.4 (2014): 445-465. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/\u201cSocial-Neuroscience-the-Imitative-Animal-and-Aronofsky\u2019s-Black-Swan.\u201d.pdf\">\u201cSocial Neuroscience, the Imitative Animal, and Aronofsky\u2019s Black Swan.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelevisual Realism: <em>The Truman Show<\/em>&#8220;. \u00a0<i>Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature\u00a0<\/i>\u00a043.3 (2010):135-150. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Televisual-Realism-The-Truman-Show.pdf\">Televisual Realism: The Truman Show<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWriting, Orality, Cinema: The \u2018Story\u2019of <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>.\u201d <em>Narrative<\/em> 16:1 (2008): 29-45. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;W<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/writing-orality-cinema-the-story-of-citizen-kane.pdf\">riting, Orality, Cinema: the &#8216;Story&#8217; of <em>Citizen Kane<\/em><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u201c\u2018Graphism\u2019 and Storytime in <em>Memento<\/em>.\u201c <em>Mosaic<\/em> 40:3 (2007): 51-66. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;G<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/graphism-and-storytime.pdf\">raphism and Storytime&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u201cThe De-Composition of Writing in <em>A Passage to India<\/em>.\u201d <em>Journal of Modern Literature<\/em>. 29:3 (2006): 1-18. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;T<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/the-De-composition-of-Writing-in-A-Passage-to-India.pdf\">he De-composition of Writing in <em>A Passage to India<\/em><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExplanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading: the Progress of Cognitive Poetics.\u201d Forthcoming at <em>Poetics Today<\/em> 26:3 (Fall 2005): 171-185. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;E<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/explanation-interpretation-and-close-reading.pdf\">xplanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cWriting and the Disembodiment of Language.\u201d <em>Philosophy and Literature<\/em> 27:1 (2003): 115-132. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Writing-and-the-Disembodiment-of-Language.pdf\">Writing and the Disembodiment of Language&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201c\u2018Literary Interpretation\u2019 and Cognitive Literary Studies.\u201d Invited Response for Special Issue <em>The Cognitive Turn?: A Debate on Interdisciplinarity. Poetics Today<\/em> 24:2 (Summer 2003): 191-205. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;L<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/literary-interpretation-and-cognitive-literary-studies.pdf\">iterary Interpretation and Cognitive Literary Studies&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;. \u201cIssues and Problems in the Blending of Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Study.\u201d Invited Response Essay for Special Issue <em>Literature, Culture, and the Cognitive Revolution. Poetics Today<\/em> 23:1 (Spring 2002): 161-179.\u00a0<strong> PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;I<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/issues-and-problems.pdf\">ssues and Problems<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending.\u201d <em>Narrative<\/em> 8:3 (October 2000): 324-338. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Postmodernism-Narrative-and-the-Cold-War-Sense-of-an-Ending.pdf\">Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cQuestioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism.\u201d <em>Poetics Today<\/em> 21:2 (Summer 2000): 319-347. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;Q<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/questioning-interdisciplinarity.pdf\">uestioning Interdisciplinarity<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cThe <em>Manchurian Candidate<\/em> and the Gender of the Cold War.\u201d <em>Literature\/Film Quarterly<\/em> 28.1 (January 2000): 34-40. <strong>PDF:<\/strong> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Manchurian-Candidate-essay.pdf\">Manchurian Candidate<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNihilism, Relativism, and Literary Theory.\u201d <em>SubStance<\/em> 24.3 (1995): 29-48. <strong>PDF:<\/strong> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Nihilism-Relativism-and-Literary-Theory.pdf\">Nihilism, Relativism, and Literary Theory&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Desires of History, Old and New.\u201d <em>Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History<\/em> 28.2 (1999): 169-187.<strong> PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/The-Desires-of-History.pdf\">The Desires of History&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles and the Hopeful Monster: Postmodern Evolutionary Theory in <em>The French Lieutenant\u2019s Woman<\/em>.\u201d <em>Twentieth Century Literature<\/em> 43.2 (1997): 221-242. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;C<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/charles-and-the-hopeful-monster.pdf\">harles and the Hopeful Monster&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge: The Novels of John Banville.\u201d <em>Contemporary Literature<\/em> 38.3 (1997): 510-533. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/Science-Art-and-the-Shipwreck-of-Knowledge.pdf\">Science, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Consequences of Chaos: <em>Cleopatra\u2019s Sister<\/em> and Postmodern Historiography.\u201d <em>Modern Fiction Studies<\/em> 42.2 (1996): 397-417. <strong>PDF<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/tony-jackson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2012\/10\/The-Consequences-of-Chaos.pdf\">The Consequences of Chaos&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book-length project:\u00a0<em>What Social Neuroscience Can Tell Us about the Art of Imitation.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graduate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English 5123: Modern British Novel<\/li>\n<li>English 6880: Narrative\/Theory<\/li>\n<li>English 6101: Introduction to English Studies<\/li>\n<li>English 6070: The Art\/Work of Film\/Viewing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Undergraduate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English 4124: Modern Irish Literature<\/li>\n<li>English 4123: Modern British Novel<\/li>\n<li>English 4050: The Art\/Work of Film\/Viewing<\/li>\n<li>English 3128: British Literature Since WWI<\/li>\n<li>English 3050H: Narratives of the Cold War<\/li>\n<li>English 3050: Contemporary British Fiction<\/li>\n<li>English 2128: Introduction to Fiction Writing<\/li>\n<li>English 2105: Introduction to Poetry<\/li>\n<li>English 2100: Writing about Literature<\/li>\n<li>English 3100: Approaches to 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