Claire Jackson received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville, and she joined the Geneseo faculty in 2024. She directs the First-Year Writing Seminar Program and the Writing Learning Center, and she teaches courses in academic writing, writing pedagogy, the politics of language, and trans studies. Her courses focus on examining the intersections among texts/language, agency, and systems of power.
She researches writing program administration, writing assessment, language & literacy ideologies, and transgender rhetorics. Across these broad research areas, she tends to focus on how individuals use texts to advance efforts toward equity and access. Her work has appeared in Composition Forum, The Journal of Writing Analytics, PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors, Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, Rhetoric Review, and Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges.
