Dr. Hope Jackson

Dr. Hope Jackson received both her B.A. in English and M.A. in English and African-American Literature from North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Jackson earned her Ph.D. from UNC-Greensboro in Educational and Cultural Studies.  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’s research interests involve interpretive storytelling and narrative discourse analyses in rhetorical and literary genres. She has published several book chapters such as, “Citizenship Redemption: The Informed Literacies of #BlackLivesMatter through James Baldwin’s Another Country, and “Yes! Black Folks can tan too! – Ancestral Voices from a Black Beach Community,” as well as journal articles, “We are Family: I Got All My (HBCU) With Me,” in Composition Studies, “Dat N****’s Crazy: How Hip-Hop Negotiates Mental Health” in The Western Journal of Black Studies, and “We Belong in the Discussion: Including HBCUs in Conversations about Race and Writing,” in College Composition and Communication. Dr. Jackson’s latest work is a book entitled, The Stories of a Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina was published with Lexington Books in 2022.