Claire Jackson
Assistant Professor of Writing Studies & Director of Writing
Welles 226b
(585)245-5273
cjackson@geneseo.edu
Dr. Claire Jackson directs the Writing Program听and the Writing Center. Prior to joining the 第一吃瓜网 faculty in 2024, she was a visiting assistant professor at College of the Holy Cross, where she participated in the development of the college’s first general education writing outcomes, and an Assistant Director of Composition at the University of Louisville.
As the only writing studies faculty member at 第一吃瓜网, Claire teaches courses in academic writing, writing pedagogy, and rhetoric. In previous positions she also developed and taught courses in feminist and queer theories, trans studies, and professional and public writing.
Claire primarily uses qualitative and archival methods to research the political economies of writing programs and ideologies of literacy, language, gender, and technology. Specifically, she is interested in how dominant ideologies and political-economic structures shape and are shaped by institutional texts in ways that constrain human behavior, as well as the literate activities individuals and marginalized communities engage in to assert agency as they navigate those constraints. She is currently focused on how students with moral and ethical oppositions to AI respond to institutional “AI literacy” initiatives which center AI use, thus reifying functionalist understandings of literacy in conflict with these students’ critical literacy practices.
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., Rhetoric & Composition, University of Louisville
M.A., English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Maine
B.A., English and Secondary Education, University of New England
Courses Taught
WRTG 105: Writing Seminar
WRTG 406: Writing Center Theory & Practice
WRTG 407: Writing for Teachers
Journal Articles
Jackson, N.C. (2025). . WPA: Writing Program Administration, 48(2), 61-80.
Jackson, N.C. & Berlew, G.K. (2024). . Rhetoric Review, 43(3), 187-200.
Jackson, N.C. & Klotz, S. (2023). Composition Forum, 51.
Swatek, A.M., Ta艧kin, Z., & Jackson, N.C. (2022). Journal of Writing Analytics, 6, 145-165.
Jackson, N.C. (2020). Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 22(4).
Chapters in Edited Collections
Jackson, N.C., Morrison, G., & Stefan, H.C. (2025). Subverting elitism with equitable assessment at a New England SLAC. In M. O橬eill and G. Giaimo (Eds.), (pp. 173-201). Parlor Press.
Jackson, N.C. & Olinger, A.R. (2021). In J. Borgman and C. McArdle (Eds.), PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors (pp. 225-242). The WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado.
Other Publications
Jackson, N.C. (2026, Feb. 23). Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies.
Jackson, N.C. (2024). Journal of Writing Assessment Reading List.
Horner, B., Cousins, E.Y., Hilberg, J., Jackson, N.C., Rodriguez, R., & Way, A. (2019). WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies, 28. WPA-CompPile.