Faculty Name:Robert Jacklosky, PhD

Areas of Interest

• Victorian literature (Dickens, George Eliot, and Matthew Arnold)
• Shakespeare
• Frank Sinatra and popular culture of the 1940s
• Creative writing and contemporary fiction

Dr. Jacklosky’s scholarly and professional interests include Victorian studies, popular culture, and creative writing. His fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Sonora Review, and the Konundrum Literary Engine Review. Additionally, he has studied at Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.

Courses

• ENGL 110 Writing in Context I
• ENGL 120 Writing in Context II
• ENGL 217 Advanced Writing: Narrative
• ENGL 219 Advanced Writing: Non-Fiction
• ENGL 300 Creative Writing Fiction
• ENGL 307 The Novel
• ENGL 316 The English Tradition in Literature II
• ENGL 319 The Age of  Satire
• ENGL 401 The Romantic Age
• ENGL 403 Victorian Age
• ENGL 421 Topics: Comedy
• ENGL 450 Senior Seminar

Publications

• “The Thing and Not the Thing: The Contemporary Dickensian Novel and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch” in a volume Dickens After Dickens. (White Rose York University Press 2020), edited by Emily Bowles. https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/DickensAfterDickens/
• “Dickensian Satire and Mealtime Shame,” co-authored with Matthew Kaiser, a chapter in A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire (Volume 5 of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy Series). Series edited by Mtthew Kaiser and Andrew Stott
• “Pick Up Soccer in the City” Non-fiction Short in Prairie Schooner (May 2016) 3:33 Sports Short #21 // Pick Up Soccer in the City by Rob Jacklosky | Prairie Schooner
• “King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company.” Review of Henry IV (Part 2) “Kings and Country” Omnibus Review in Shakespeare Bulletin (Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2016)
• “Here Comes Mrs. Jordan,” Dappled Things, Fall 2014
• “A Book is a Machine to Think: Anthony Wallace’s The Old Priest,” Bloom, August 2014
• “Skipped Stops,” Podium: Publication of the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y (Volume 12), Summer 2014
• Review essay: “Pete Dexter: You Have to Be Hurt to See Anything at All,” Bloom, September 2013
• “George Eliot: Strong-Minded Woman and Varying, Unfolding Self,” Bloom, February 2013
• “Baby Envy,” Esquire, November 2011
• “Dispatches from the Wings at the Ballet,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2009
• “Dispatches from the Napoleonic Wars at the Met,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2008
• “Someone to Watch Over Him,” Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture, edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004
• “ComPositioning Culture and Anarchy,” Teaching in the 21st-Century: Writing Pedagogies Across the Disciplines, ed. by Barbara Smith. New York: Routledge, 1999
• Book review: “Thomas Beller’s Seduction Theory,” Studies in Short Fiction (34.3)
• Book review: “Jonathan Wilson’s Schoom,” Studies in Short Fiction (34.3)
• Book review: “Garry Wills’ St. Augustine,” Port
• Book review: “Junot Diaz’s Drown” Studies in Short Fiction (34:2)

Community Service

Member of Bronx Community Board 8 and Member of the Education, Libraries and Cultural Affairs Committee and Parks and Recreation Committees 2019-2021

Residencies and Awards

• New Century Writers Award finalist, 2002-2003
• New York Stories Best Short Story competition finalist, 2000
• Norton Island Writers Residency winner, 2008
• Quincy Guild Writers Award for best short story, 2002
• Vermont Studio Center residency
• William Faulkner/William Wisdom Fiction Competition finalist, 2007
• WNYC Leonard Lopate Essay contest winner for, “A Version of Me on Network T.V.,” July 2007