Dr. Hope Jackson
Dr. Hope Jackson聽received both her B.A. in English and M.A. in English and African-American Literature from North Carolina A&T State University.聽Dr. Jackson earned her Ph.D. from UNC-Greensboro in Educational and Cultural Studies.聽 She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from Composition to African American Film and Culture as well as Hip-Hop Discourse and is the former Graduate Studies Coordinator for North Carolina A&T State University’s English Department. Her work there as Graduate Coordinator resulted in Dr. Jackson receiving the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Coordinator Award presented by the North Carolina A&T State University Graduate College. Dr. Jackson鈥檚 research interests involve interpretive storytelling and narrative discourse analyses in rhetorical and literary genres. She has published several book chapters such as, 鈥淐itizenship Redemption: The Informed Literacies of #BlackLivesMatter through James Baldwin鈥檚 Another Country,聽and 鈥淵es! Black Folks can tan too! 鈥� Ancestral Voices from a Black Beach Community,鈥� as well as journal articles, 鈥淲e are Family: I Got All My (HBCU) With Me,鈥� in聽Composition Studies, 鈥淒at N****’s Crazy: How Hip-Hop Negotiates Mental Health鈥� in聽The Western Journal of Black Studies, and 鈥淲e Belong in the Discussion: Including HBCUs in Conversations about Race and Writing,鈥� in聽College Composition and Communication.聽Dr. Jackson鈥檚 latest work is a book entitled,聽The Stories of a Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina聽was published with Lexington Books in 2022.聽
