Reginald Jackson

Reginald Jackson is Associate Professor of Japanese literature and performance at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to earning tenure at Michigan, he was faculty at the University of Chicago and Yale University, having earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in East Asian Studies. One goal of his research and teaching is to reimagine the field of Japanese Studies in generative ways that prove more open to diverse archives and questions.

He is the author of the scholarly monographs A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (University of California Press, 2021) and Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and the Tale of Genji Scrolls (University of Michigan Press, 2018). His writing appears in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater Survey, boundary 2, Asian Theatre Journal, and Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. A devotion to illustration and playing electric guitar enrich his scholarship.