Dennis Jackson (B.A. Belhaven College ; M.A., Ph.D. University of Arkansas) has worked as Co-Editor of five books: D.H.Lawrence's "Lady" (University of
Georgia Press, 1985); Critical Essays on D.H.Lawrence (G.K. Hall, 1988); D.H. Lawrence's Literary Inheritors (St.Martin's, 1991); Editing D.H. Lawrence (University of Michigan Press, 1995); and The Journalist's Craft (Allworth Press, 2002). He was Associate Editor for D.H. Lawrence : An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him (2 vols., Northern Illinois University Press, 1982/1985). He served as Editor of The D.H. Lawrence Review (1984-94); as Managing Editor of the Irish Renaissance Annual (1980-83); and as Guest Editor of a Style issue titled Newspaper Writing as Art (1982). His essays in books and periodicals have focused on such varied subjects as novelists D.H. Lawrence, David Storey, and David Lodge; newspaper columnists Red Smith and Chuck Stone; literary censorship; textual editing; media issues; medicine; speed reading skills; and the history of African-American journalism and political movements in the 1960s. His articles have appeared in The Black Scholar, Men's Health, Philological Quarterly, Bass News, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Editor and Publisher, CEA Forum, Etudes Lawrenciennes, Interpretations, British Book News, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, and elsewhere. He was President of The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America (1985-86) and received that group's "Harry T. Moore Distinguished Scholar Award" (1999). He received a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1999); was named a Gannett Teaching Fellow (1981); and served as Seminar Director for the U.S. Information Agency's "Bulgarian Mass Media Development Program" (1994). He won a "National Teaching Award" from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies (1982) and received the University of Delaware College of Arts and Science "Advisement Award" (2000). He has been Director of Journalism at the University of Delaware since 1995. |
