Rate My Professor Chuck Jackson

Chuck Jackson is Professor of English in the Department of History, Humanities, and Languages at the University of Houston-Downtown, where he serves as Degree Coordinator for the B.A. in English and oversees concentrations in Creative Writing, Film Studies, and English Education. He joined the faculty in fall 2005 and coordinates the Film Studies minor. Jackson's research focuses on U.S. film studies, U.S. literary studies, critical theory, and critical prison studies. His scholarship examines intersections of race, waste, emergencies, institutions, and culture in film and literature. He has published articles in leading journals, including 'Star Hole (for Courtney Love)' in Camera Obscura (2007), 'Blood for Oil: Crude Metonymies and Tobe Hooper's Texas Chain Saw Massacre' in Gothic Studies (2010), 'What blooms: The jailhouse, inside out' in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (2015), and 'Texas / Chain Saw / Atmospheres' in Post45 (2024). Other publications appear in Black Camera, Pedagogy, Modern Fiction Studies, African American Review, The Faulkner Journal, and The Journal of Popular Film and Television.