Edith Moss Jackson earned the master's degree in Spanish literature at Harvard University and the doctorate in Spanish literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published an anthology, Forgotten Texts: 19th Century Afro-Argentine Poetic Constructions of Self and Community (2010), and authored a critical study Myth and Meaning: A Paradigmatic Analysis of Galdos's Fortunata y Jacinta (2002). She published "Bajo construccion en carnaval: las identidades etnicas de algunas comparsas afro-argentinas del siglo XIX," Konvergencias: Literatura, (Buenos Aires 2007), and presented papers at national professional meetings and international conferences in Eritrea, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Puerto Rico. She is also a recipient of Fulbright and John Hay Whitney fellowships.
