Contact Information

Office: 4169 JFSB

Phone: 422-9077

E-mail: matthew_jackson@byu.edu

Matt Jackson specializes in rhetoric, composition, and the philosophy of education, with particular interests in ethics, politics (issues of social justice, particularly critical race and whiteness theory), pedagogy, and phenomenology.

His scholarship and teaching are rooted in the belief that we are relational beings who are always-already connected in communities wherein language is central. As such, there must be citizens who are willing and able to critically, and yet with a sense of humility, engage in the endless pursuit of the ethical as a sense of being-for-the-other.

He grew up in Ephraim, UT, where he developed a love for the outdoors. He is married to Tracy Smith Jackson, who holds an MA degree in English from BYU and also teaches composition courses. They have five children, two girls and three boys. He enjoys camping with his children, mountain biking, telemark skiing, and fly-fishing.

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