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Lauren M. Jackson (Ph.D. English, University of Chicago) teaches courses on American and African American literary and cultural production from the twentieth to the twenty-first century, focusing on affect, aesthetics, and the novel. Her book, White Negroes, published with Beacon Press in 2019, was short-listed for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. In the 2021-22 academic year, she was a National Fellow at New America. Her articles and criticism have appeared in various prestigious publications, including The Atlantic, Journal of Popular Music Studies, New Inquiry, New Literary History, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Point, Rolling Stone, Feminist Media Studies, The Washington Post, and Yale Review. In 2024, she received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. Additionally, she is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, focusing on culture and politics. Her forthcoming book, Back, with Amistad Press/HarperCollins, explores the figure of 'back' in art and culture. Her current project, 'The Comedown: Literary Devices in Black Literature,' considers disaffection in contemporary literary works.
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