Jeanne-Marie Jackson is associate professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of two books: The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing and South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation. In addition to her many scholarly publications, Jackson writes literary criticism for public-facing venues such as the New Left Review, n+1, Africa Is a Country, and Public Books, and she also edits the “Field Reports” blog for the journal Modernism/modernity.
Her project, “J. E. Casely Hayford and the Legacy of Gold Coast Sovereignty,” looks toward two closely linked projects on the 19th-century Gold Coast Fante writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford. The first is an intellectual biography that weaves together the eclectic political, theological, and literary influences on and of his written work, and the second is a new annotated edition of the first African novel written in English, Hayford’s 1911 opus, Ethiopia Unbound.
