Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication
Director, MA major in Rhetoric and Composition

Rebecca Jackson joined the Department of English in 2001 and has developed and taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. She has been active in campus-wide writing across the curriculum efforts and has directed and served on numerous student thesis committees.  Before coming to Texas State, Dr. Jackson was on the faculty at New Mexico State University (1997-2001), where she directed the Writing Center and taught in the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. 

Degrees

• Ph.D., English, Texas A&M University
• M.A., English, University of Tulsa 
• B.A., English, Southwest Texas State University
  

Contact Information

• office: Flowers Hall 134
• office phone: 512.245.8975
• email: rj10@txstate.edu
  

Teaching & Research Interests

• Narrative inquiry
• Writing center studies
• Composition theory and pedagogy
  

Courses Commonly Taught

• ENG 5383: Rhetorical Theory
• ENG 5313: Research Methods in Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication
• ENG 5317 Topic: Composition Theory
• ENG 5317 Topic: Writing Center Theory, Practice, and Administration
• ENG 5317 Topic: Gender and Writing

Selected Publications

• Jackson, Rebecca. "Resisting Institutional Narratives: One Student's Counterstories of Writing and Learning in the Academy." Writing Center Journal 28.1 (2008): 23-41.
• Jackson, Rebecca and Deborah Morton. "Becoming Landscape Architects: A Postmodern Approach to WAC Sustainability." WAC Journal 18 (September 2007): 46-58.
• Jackson, Rebecca. "'I Don't Talk to Blacks,' or Contextual Constraints on Peer Writing Groups in the Prison College Classroom."  By Any Other Name:  Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom.  Ed. Beverly Moss, Melissa Dunbar, and Nels Highberg.  Mahwah:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.
• Jackson, Rebecca, Carrie Leverenz, and Joe Law. “(Re)Shaping the Profession:  Graduate Courses in Writing Center Theory, Practice, and Administration.”  The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship.  Ed. Michael Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead.  Logan:  Utah State UP, 2003.  
• Jackson, Rebecca, and Patricia Wojahn. “Issues in Writing Program Administration:  A Select Annotated Bibliography.”  The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource:  A Guide to Reflective Practice.  Ed. Stuart Brown, Theresa Enos and Catherine Chaput.  Mahwah:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.  467-490.
  
• Jackson, Rebecca. “Writing Center Consultations.”  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Ed. Duane Roen, et al.  Urbana:  NCTE, 2002.  372-385.
• Jackson, Rebecca, and Chris Burnham. "Experience and Reflection in Multiple Contexts:  Preparing TAs for the Artistry of Professional Practice."  Preparing College Teachers of Writing:  Histories, Theories, Practices, and Programs.  Ed. Betty Pytlik and Sarah Liggett.  Oxford UP, 2001.  
• Jackson, Rebecca, Stuart Brown, and Theresa Enos. “The Arrival of Rhetoric in the Twenty-first Century.”  Rhetoric Review 18.2 (2000):  233-373.