Melissa Jackson, M.F.A.
Lecturer, English Composition
678-839-2300
mjackson@westga.edu
Newnan Center Building 1000 - Room 103
Office Hours
OFFICE HOURS
Monday/Wednesday: In the Writing Center from 10-11:30, Office 10:30-2
10:15-12:15 Tuesday/Thursday 9-11
Melissa Dickson Jackson teaches writing and American Literature. She also writes feature articles and participates in cultural and community events. Her work has appeared in Thrive Magazine for the Coweta Chamber of Commerce, Newnan Coweta Magazine, and Lifestyles magazine. She has published two collections of poetry, Cameo (2011) and Sweet Aegis, Medusa Poems (2013). Her poems can be found in Bitter Southerner, Shenandoah, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Cumberland River Review, Southern Women's Review, Literary Mama, and Gravy from the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. She served as the associate editor of Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems released by Negative Capability Press in 2015. The University of Georgia Press collection Vinegar and Char (2018) includes her work. Melissa lives in Newnan with her husband, four children, two cats, a beta fish, and a leopard gecko named Beans.
- B.F.A., Fine Arts, Painting, Auburn University, 1992
- M.F.A., Studio Arts, School of Visual Arts, 1995
- M.F.A., Creative and Professional Writing, Converse College, 2012
Spring 2025 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 2KG eCore Courses External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 93 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 94 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (American Literature) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2024 Sections
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 93 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 95 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 97 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 108 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 2KG eCore Courses External Resource
Summer 2024 Sections
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 2DG eCore Courses External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 95 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- ENGL-0999 (Support for English Comp) Section: E3Z external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-0999 (Support for English Comp) Section: 95Z external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: E3Z external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 94 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 95Z external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 95 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (American Literature) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 95 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 96 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 97 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 94 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 96 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (American Literature) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2022 Sections
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: E05 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 93 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 96 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (American Literature) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- ENGL-0999 (Support for English Comp) Section: 91Z external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 91Z external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 99 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 93 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 94 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (American Literature) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- ENGL-1101 (English Composition I) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (American Lit: Time Travel) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 92 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 93 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 94 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2130 (Free Will) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
The Immortal Memory Address January 30, 2016 [View Publication External Resource]
Ghost Tales p 27 [View Publication External Resource]
Mayhayley the Mercurial [View Publication External Resource]
Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poetry [View Publication External Resource]
Bitter Southerner (poem) [View Publication External Resource]
Shenandoah (Two Poems) [View Publication External Resource]
Collection of Poems from New Plains Press [View Publication External Resource]
Collection of Poems from Negative Capability Press [View Publication External Resource]
Cumberland River Review [View Publication External Resource]
Gravy, The Journal of the Southern Foodways Alliance [View Publication External Resource]
Newnan/Coweta Magazine Page 32 [View Publication External Resource]
North American Review Blog [View Publication External Resource]
Public Speaking
I'm a skilled public speaker with experience on a variety of topics. I've addressed local civic groups and organizations on topics including The History of the Pulitzer Prize, Mayhayley Lancaster (notorious regional fortune teller), Robert Burns, and the creative overlap of the visual and literary arts. I'm also a trained and skilled performer of literature and poetry. I've appeared on the Weather Channel, in the documentary Legend of an Oracle, and at various venues in the Southeast including Auburn University's June Collins Smith Museum, Avid Bookshop in Athens, The New South Bookstore in Montgomery, and local events including the annual Oakhill Cemetery Tour, Kiwanis and Rotary Meetings, LitMu Meetings, and the Newnan Carnegie Library.