Claire Jackson joined the Geneseo 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 the creation of a new introductory course for the Rhetoric and Composition minor. 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 organized faculty development in online writing instruction. 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 Geneseo she directs the Writing Program, and teaches courses in academic writing, writing pedagogy, and rhetoric.
Claire researches writing program administration, writing assessment, language ideologies, and trans rhetorics. She is currently working on an institutional ethnography of writing instruction at Geneseo, 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.
