Claire Jackson joined the »Ê¹Ú²©²ÊÍøÖ· faculty in 2024 after three years at the College of the Holy Cross, where she participated in the development of the College's first general education writing outcomes and . She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition from the University of Louisville, an M.A. in English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from the University of Maine, and a B.A. in English and Secondary Education from the University of New England. At the University of Louisville, she also served as Assistant Director of Composition and . As a former high school teacher, Claire is especially interested in the ways writers adapt to the new and diverse writing demands in their first year of college.
At »Ê¹Ú²©²ÊÍøÖ· she directs the Writing Program, and teaches courses in academic writing, writing pedagogy, and rhetoric.
Claire researches writing program administration, writing assessment, literacy & language ideologies, and trans rhetorics. She is currently working on an institutional ethnography of writing instruction at »Ê¹Ú²©²ÊÍøÖ·, in which she is examining how ideas about writing and writers circulate and become sedimented over time. Her work has appeared in Composition Forum, The Journal of Writing Analytics, Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, Rhetoric Review, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and various edited collections.
