Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum​ at Columbia College
lj2504@columbia.edu

Larry Jackson is associate dean of Academic Affairs, director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College, where he also teaches Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. Prior to Columbia, Larry held positions at The New School, New York University and the City University of New York. His writing has appeared in n+1, Diacritics and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and he serves on the advisory board of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies. Originally from Philadelphia, Larry was the first in his family to attend college. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from The New School for Social Research, where he also received two master’s degrees (in Philosophy and Liberal Studies); he received his bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Skidmore College.