Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Jason Emmett Collins is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of English. He specializes in 18th- and 19th-century British and Irish fiction, with interdisciplinary interests in religious studies and music. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Lessons in Modernity: The Novel and Nostalgia for the Sacred,” focuses on theorizing the history of the Anglophone novel with specific attention to the interrelated problematics of religion, secularism, and modernity. He holds a B.A. in English and History from the University of Southern California, where he was a Trustee Scholar, and an M.Phil. in English from the University of Cambridge, where he was a recipient of the Trinity College Gould Studentship in English Literature. His work has appeared in Religion and the Arts and George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies.