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Rob Jackson (he/him) is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar of Indigenous literature. His research and teaching focuses on the relationships between poetics, decolonization, and Marxian thought in the context of settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty.

 

More Boradly, Jackson's research explores capitalism's racial and colonial dimensions through contemporary poetry and social theory. Bringing Marxist political economy into dialogue with indigenous studies and theories of racial capitalism, he examines how racialization and indiginous disposession operate as distinct yet interrelated processes. A central focus of this work is land, understood as a key social and conceptual mediator in settler colinial contexts. Methodologically, poetry becomes a critical site in which economic strucutres can be articulated with lived experiences of exploitation, displacement, and resistance through its tactics of figuration, mediation, metonyy, and abstraction. 

 

As a scholar of Public Humanities, Jackson's practice is rooted in his experiences as a grassroots educator and in community-based research. He is a member of the Re-Storying the West project and facilitates the Keywords for the Public Humanities speaker series. 

 

Jackson is available to supervise graduate students with interests in Indigenous literatures, Native American and Indiginous Studies, literary and critical theory, critical ethnic studies, contemporary poetry and poetics, anti-colonial thought, and community-based research methods.

 

His work has appeared in The Canadian Theatre Review, The Capilano Review, CMag, Contemporary Literature and Culture, JumpCut, and Public. He is currently working on a book about treaties and colonial capitalism on the North American Plains.