Department of English

Jason Emmett Collins

MPhil English Studies, University of Cambridge, 2022 , BA English, University of Southern California, 2020, BA History, University of Southern California, 2020
Jason_Collins@brown.edu
Research Interests Nineteenth Century , Eighteenth Century , Romantic and Victorian, Literary and Cultural Theory, Religious studies, Music and musicology

Biography

Jason’s research is focused on late eighteenth and nineteenth century British fiction, and he has interdisciplinary interests in religious studies and musicology. In particular, he is interested in exploring the capacity of narrative fiction to mediate ephemeral dimensions of religious and musical experience. His previous substantial research projects have focused on the representation of religion in the work of George Eliot and Charlotte Brontë. Before coming to Brown he was the recipient of the 2021-2022 Gould Studentship in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge and a Trustee Scholar at the University of Southern California.

 

Publications

“Fictionality, Memory, and Epistemological Ecumenism in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God.” Forthcoming in Religion and the Arts.


“George Eliot: Whole Soul by Ilana Blumberg (review).” Forthcoming in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies.


“‘I Will Throw All on the Altar’: Christianity, Hinduism, and ‘Human Rights’ in Jane Eyre.” FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts (33), September 2022.