Jason Mosser
Scholar of literary journalism and New Journalism; a recurring contributor to this project. He co-edited (with Gerald R. Lucas) the site's full-text edition of "The White Negro" and wrote the "New Journalism" chapter of Norman Mailer in Context (2021).
Jason Mosser is a Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. He received his BA and MA from West Virginia University and his PhD from the University of Georgia, and he has published extensive scholarship on literary journalism, especially the work of Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson. Within this project he recurs in two capacities: as co-editor, with Gerald R. Lucas, of the annotated full text of “The White Negro” hosted under Works and Days, and as the author of the “New Journalism” chapter in Maggie McKinley’s edited collection Norman Mailer in Context.
In The Mailer Review
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Vol. 3 (2009)
- “Genre-Bending in The Armies of the Night,” 3 (2009): 307 — 2009 bibliography · article
Jason Mosser is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Georgia. He is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College in the Atlanta suburbs. He has written extensively about literary journalism. His book, Participatory New Journalism: Style, Persona, and Protest, will appear later this year. His next project is a book on Hunter S. Thompson.
Vol. 6 (2012)
- “Norman Mailer: Genre Bender,” 6.1 (2012): 267 — 2012 bibliography · article
Jason Mosser is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. In his career he has taught at West Virginia University, the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Atlanta College of Art, Rockford College, and Gainesville State College. His articles on literary journalism have appeared in The Mailer Review and in Literary Journalism Studies. His book, Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion: Creating New Reporting Styles, has just been published by The Edwin Mellen Press.
Vol. 7 (2013)
- “Eternity for the New Millennium,” 7.1 (2013): 429 — 2013 bibliography · article
Contributor’s note as in vol. 6.
Vol. 8 (2014)
- “Norman Mailer and the Oxford English Dictionary,” 8.1 (2014): 102 — 2014 bibliography · article
Jason Mosser is Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. He received a BA and an MA in English from West Virginia University and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. His primary research interest is the New Journalism of the 1960s-1970s. In addition to dozens of reviews, he has published articles in The Mailer Review and Literary Journalism Studies. His book, The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion, was published by Mellen Press in 2012.
Vol. 9 (2015)
- “Beatster, the White Negro, and the Evolution of the Hipster in Fight Club,” 9.1 (2015): 85 — 2015 bibliography · article
- “History of Violences,” 9.1 (2015): 322 — 2015 bibliography · article
Jason Mosser is Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. He has published numerous reviews, articles, and a book, The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion: Creating New Reporting Styles. He has recently received a Harry Ransom Fellowship to do research on Mailer’s essay, “The White Negro.”
Vol. 11 (2017)
- “On Compiling a Selective Bibliography of “The White Negro”,” 11.1 (2017): 204 — 2017 bibliography · article
- ““The White Negro”: A Selective Bibliography,” 11.1 (2017): 208 — 2017 bibliography · article
- “Notes from the Flyover,” 11.1 (2017): 280 — 2017 bibliography · article
Jason Mosser is a Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, the first new liberal arts college in the 21st century. He earned his BA and MA from West Virginia University and his PhD from the University of Georgia. His book on New Journalism, including a chapter on Mailer’s The Armies of the Night, was published in 2012. He has also published articles on Mailer and on Hunter S. Thompson, and is currently at work on a literary journalistic piece about West Virginia.
Vol. 12 (2018)
- “All Gonzo All the Time,” 12.1 (2018): 310 — 2018 bibliography · article
- “Pill,” 12.1 (2018): 338 — article
Contributor’s note as in vol. 11.
Vol. 13 (2019)
- “Mailer and Thompson on the Campaign Trail, 1972,” 13.1 (2019): 151 — 2019 bibliography · article
Jason Mosser is Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, the first new liberal arts college in the 21st century. He earned his BA and MA from West Virginia University and his PhD from the University of Georgia. His book on New Journalism, including a chapter on Mailer’s The Armies of the Night, was published in 2012. He has also published articles on Mailer and on Hunter S. Thompson, and is currently at work on a literary journalistic piece about West Virginia.
Vol. 15 (2021)
- “Mailer’s Hipster Meets Thompson’s Bikers: White Negroes on Wheels,” 15.1 (2021): 183 — 2021 bibliography · article
- “Telling It as She Means It,” 15.1 (2021): 305 — 2021 bibliography · article
- “five students writing,” 15.1 (2021): 389 — article
Jason Mosser is Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, the first new liberal arts college in the 21st century. He earned his BA and MA from West Virginia University and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. His book on New Journalism, including a chapter on Mailer’s The Armies of the Night, was published in 2012. He has also published articles on Mailer and on Hunter S. Thompson, and a recent chapbook of poems called Salvage.
Vol. 16 (2026) — forthcoming
- “Genre-Bending in The Armies of the Night,” 16.1 (2026): 75 — forthcoming
Jason Mosser is a Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. A native West Virginian, he received his B.A. and M.A. in English from West Virginia University and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. He has taught at WVU, UGA, Georgia Tech, the Atlanta College of Art, Rockford College, and the University of North Georgia. His primary area of interest is contemporary American literature, especially literary journalism. His most recent articles and reviews have been published in The Mailer Review and Cambridge University Press. His book on the New Journalism of the 1960s and 70s was published in 2012. He published a chapbook, Salvage and Other Poems, in 2018, and another, The New Ones and Other Poems, in 2026.
Related pages
- The White Negro | Norman Mailer in Context | Gerald R. Lucas
- The Blood of the Blunt (12.1) | The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1) | The Thalian Adventure (15.1) | The Fight (Taschen edition) (16.1)