Virginia Jackson

Virginia Jackson is a lyric theorist and historian.  Her books include Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (Princeton University Press, 2023), The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology (with Yopie Prins; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (Princeton University Press, 2005). She is currently UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric at the University of California, Irvine.