Kenneth David Jackson é professor da Yale University, nos Estados Unidos, organizador de Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet (Oxford, Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2005) e Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (Oxford/Nova York, Oxford University Press, 2006), além de autor de Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (Nova York, Oxford University Press, 2010), Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2015) e Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-garde (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2021).