Having earned his Ph.D. from the department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 2007, he is currently completing revisions for his book manuscript, “Midare Performance and the Ethics of Decomposition,” which examines tropes of degenerescence in relation to conceptions of virtuosity and the ethics of representation in medieval Japanese dance-drama and calligraphy. Jackson has interpreted for professional Noh actors as part of the Kyoto Art Center’s Traditional Theater Training Program, and from 2005-2006 served as a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Nogami Memorial Institute for Noh Drama Research in Tokyo. He teaches courses on Japanese theater, literature, performance analysis, and critical theory.