Pamela Jackson

Pamela Jackson has been a library faculty member in the California State University system since 2002. She is Comic Arts Librarian in Special Collections and University Archives at San Diego State University, and Founding Co-Director of SDSU’s Center for Comics Studies in the College of Arts and Letters. She manages a comic arts collection of more than 120K published, archival and ephemeral items. As founding co-Director for the Center for Comics Studies, Jackson works to include comics in the curriculum and to foster the next generation of comics scholars. She co-led efforts to develop SDSU’s comics curriculum, host an Institute for K-12 Teachers on Using Comics to Teach Social Justice, and created The Comic-Con Kids: Finding and Defining Fandom, which explores the emergence of comics, science fiction and fantasy in the youth counterculture movements of the 1970s. Her recent work focuses on teaching civic engagement through comics. Pam was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. She has an MA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing from Sonoma State University, an MA in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Professional Certificate in Rare Books and Manuscripts from the California Rare Book School at UCLA.

• SDSU Comics Studies Center
• Comic Arts Library Research Guide