Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo. He is the author or editor of thirty books, including “In This Timeless Time”: Living and Dying on Death Row in America (with Diane Christian); Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture; Cummins Wide: Photographs from the Arkansas Prison; The Story Is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories; Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America; Death Row (with Diane Christian); In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience; and Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons. His photographs and documentary films have been widely exhibited. Jackson has been named a Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit and also in the French Order of Arts and Letters.