Jacqueline Jones Royster is an American academic, author, and scholar of rhetoric, literacy, and cultural studies.
She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
In 2010, she moved to Georgia Tech, where she served as Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts until 2019.
Two of her books are Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African-American Women and Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B.
In 2003, she co-edited a college writing textbook called Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community.