Jason Crawford
Professor of English
Biography
Jason Crawford teaches and writes about early modern literature and culture. He is the author of Allegory and Enchantment (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is currently at work on two book projects: one on tragedy and religion in Shakespeare, and one on the uses of comedy. Crawford has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and at the University of Tennessee鈥檚 Marco Institute. At Union, his teaching interests include not just early modern English writers but also ancient epic and drama, Dante and Petrarch, problems of tragedy and suffering, notions of beauty, and questions about modernity and its limits.
Education
- Ph.D in English, Harvard University
- A.M. in English, Harvard University
- B.A. in English, Philosophy, Louisiana State University
Recent Books
Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds That Came Before
Edited by Jessica Hooten Wilson and Jacob StratmanZondervan Academic (March 2022)
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Union Contributors: Jason Crawford (Introduction to "George Herbert, Five Poems"); Joy E. Moore (Introduction to "T.S. Eliot, 'Preludes'"); Scott Huelin (Introduction to "Friedrich Nietzsche, From 'Use and Abuse of History'").
Recent Scholarship
- PRESENTATION - "James Simpson's Freedoms" Sep 2022
- ARTICLE - "Shakespeare's Comedy of Judgment" Sep 2022
- PRESENTATION - "Herbert's Proverbial Ineloquence" Jun 2022
- ARTICLE - "George Herbert's Outlandish Wisdom" Mar 2022
