Deidra Jackson, Ph.D.

Visiting Instructor of Writing

Deidra Faye Jackson, who earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Mississippi, teaches first-year writing and graduate higher education courses. She researches faculty perceptions of scholarly productivity, writing groups as faculty development, and faculty persistence within "publish or perish" R1 universities. She is a Visiting Instructor of Writing and holds a master's and bachelor's degree in journalism. A former newspaper editor and reporter in North Carolina and Mississippi, she currently is a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed. She also has presented research at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and (forthcoming) the Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies. She has co-authored and authored articles in the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship and the Journal of Contemporary Research in Education, respectively. Daily, she is motivated to persevere by her Gen Z son, Jackson, with whom she lives in Oxford, Miss.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender and race influences in publishing persistence, as well as faculty relationships and collegiality as they relate to scholarly productivity.