Lauren Michele Jackson
National Fellow, 2022
Lauren Michele Jackson, National Fellow, is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University and contributing writer at the New Yorker. She is the author of White Negroes, which was short-listed for the 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. Her essays and criticism have also been published in New York Magazine, Harper鈥檚 Bazaar, 4Columns, and elsewhere. She is an alum of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received her PhD in English from the University of Chicago. For her fellowship, she worked on Back: An American Tale, a collection of essays on American history鈥檚 belabored cores. Back is forthcoming from Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Selected Work
- : An essay for the New Yorker considering the sonic problem of representing race, as prompted by recent reckonings over diversity in voice acting.
- : An essay dedicated to the minor characters of one of America鈥檚 favorite TV shows for Vulture.
- : A year in review on exculpatory powers of social critique in the New Yorker.
- : A cover story for Harper鈥檚 Bazaar profiling Houston's very own.