Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH1984, Ph.D., American Culture The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1979, M.A.--English West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV,1977, B.A.--English and Spanish
More Information
Kathy Merlock Jackson is Professor of Media and Communication at Virginia Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in media studies and children’s culture, coordinates the media and communication internship program and childhood studies certificate program, advises the Ethics Bowl team, and serves as immediate past president of the campus chapter of AAUP. She is the author of over a hundred articles, chapters, and reviews and has authored or edited thirteen books: Images of Children in American Film 1986 Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography 1993 Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives 2005 Conversations with Walt Disney 2006 Disneyland and Culture: Essays on the Theme Parks and Their Influence, co-edited with Mark West 2011 Walt Disney: From Reader to Storyteller, co-edited with Mark West 2014 The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment, co-authored with Lisa Lyon Payne and Kathy Stolley 2016 Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Essays on Lessons About Self and Community, co-edited with Steven Emmanuel 2016 Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock To J.K. Rowling, co-edited with Mark West 2018 Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, co-edited with Kathy Stolley and Lisa Lyon Payne 2020 and Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on the Places Inspired by Children’s Narratives, co-edited with Mark West 2022 “This shark, swallow you whole”: Essays on the Cultural Influence of Jaws, co-edited with Philp Simpson 2023 and Forgotten Disney, co-edited with Mark West and Carl Sederholm 2023. Jackson is currently working on edited volumes on the Rocky franchise and toys and stories in interplay. Her main areas of interest are children's culture, popular film and television, Disney studies, and animation. She and her husband Joe Jackson, a writer, live in Virginia Beach. Their son Nicholas and his Parisian-born wife Lucie are artists living in Chicago.
Print Page
