Portrait of Jennifer Jackson duBois

Jennifer Jackson duBois

  • Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Chair, Clark Prize Committee. June 2025 - Present.
  • Graduate Advisor, Porter House Review. 2024 - Present.
  • Moderator, "Ambition, Identity and Connection: Artistic Journeys in Modern Life," Texas Book Festival. 2024 - Present.
  • Attendee / Participant, Clark Public Library's Evening with the Authors. October 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Mentoring Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Officer, Literary Women in Action. November 2016 - Present.
  • Member, Therese Kaye Lindsey Committee. January 2016 - Present.
  • Editor, American Short Fiction. July 1, 2014 - Present.
  • Member, MFA Committee. August 1, 2013 - Present.

2025

  • Reviewer / Referee, St. Ulphia's Dead, Scott Lambridis. 2025.
  • Member, Clark Prize Commitee. August 2016 - 2025.

2024

  • Reviewer / Referee, North Sun, Ethan Rutherford. 2024.

2022

  • Moderator, "Grab Your Readers and Don’t Let Them Go: Crafting Opening Pages in Fiction," Writers' League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference. 2022.
  • Moderator, "Portrait of a Marriage," Texas Book Festival. 2022.
  • Moderator, "Before Your Query: Preparing for the Agent Search," Writers' League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference. 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, Country of Origin, Dalia Azim. August 2021.

2020

  • Reviewer / Referee, Olympus, TX, Stacey Swann. 2020.

2019

  • Organizer, Tenure-Track Reading Series: Jamel Brinkley. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The Body Double, Emily Beyda. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, I Am Faithful, Jenny Irish. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Like Water: Stories, Olga Zilberbourg. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, A Good Man, Ani Katz. 2019.
  • Organizer, Agent-in-Residence program. May 2019.

2018

  • Organizer, Tenure-Track Reading Series: Karan Mahajan. 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Still In Love, Michael Downing. 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Mary B., Katherine Chen. 2018.
  • Volunteer, Front Steps Homeless Shelter. September 2014 - 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, I Don't Think Of You (Until I Do), Tatiana Ryckman. 2017.
  • Member, MFA Program Assistant Hiring Committee. June 2017.

2016

  • Reviewer / Referee, The Border of Paradise, Esme Weijun Wang. 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Lucky You, Erika Carter. November 2016.
  • Participant, MFA Faculty Reading at Malvern Books. October 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The Flammable Engagement, Brian Tuttle. October 2016.
  • Adjudicator, Writers' League of Texas Book Awards. May 2016 - June 2016.
  • Participant, MFA Community Dialogues. January 2016 - April 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Man and Wife, Katie Chase. January 2016.

2015

  • Reviewer / Referee, The Unraveling of Mercy Lewis, Keija Parssinen. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, Anna North. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The Madwoman Upstairs, Catherine Lowell. 2015.
  • Organizer, Tenure-Track Reading Series: Kirstin Valdez Quade. October 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves, James Han Mattson. October 2015.
  • Participant, MFA Reading. September 2015.
  • Adjudicator, University of Chicago Undergraduate Story Award. May 2015.
  • Adjudicator, Michener-Copernicus Award. March 1, 2015 - April 1, 2015.

2010

  • Volunteer, Hamilton Family Council. 2010.

2009

  • Volunteer, Johnson County Crisis Center Food Bank. 2008 - 2009.