Teaching is his great privilege. His book, Transformations of Literacy in Computer-Mediated Communication: Orality, Literacy, Cyberdiscursivity, was published in 2002 by the Edwin Mellen Press. He likes crosswords, jumbles, cryptoquotes, and sudokus. His greatest joy is raising his children. Dr. Jacobsen earned his Ph.D. in English at Texas A&M in 1999.