Alan Jackson is the Vice President for Academic Services at Georgia Perimeter College.  Before assuming the duties of the VPAA, he served as the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts for five years.  In his eighteen years at the college, Dr. Jackson taught the full-complement of English courses, started a tutoring center at the former Rockdale site, served as Non-fiction Editor of The Chattahoochee Review, served as Faculty Senate Chair, and was promoted to Professor of English. 

Jackson earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee.  He is author of Byron Herbert Reece and the Southern Poetry Tradition (Mellen 2001) and co-editor of three books, Reforming College Composition (Greenwood 2000), Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and Its Influence (AMS 2003), and Faithfully Yours: The Letters of Byron Herbert Reece (Cherokee 2007).