Alan Jacobs (academic)

For the American independent film director, screenwriter and producer of the same name, see Alan Jacobs.

Alan Jacobs, a scholar of English literature, writer, and literary critic, is a distinguished professor of the humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University.

Career

Jacobs earned a B.A. from the University of Alabama in 1980 and a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1987.[1] He was the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois) until 2012 when his hiring to Baylor was widely noted as part of the competition between these two Christian colleges.[2]

In addition to his academic work and books, Jacobs has been or is a regular contributor to: The Atlantic[3] First Things,[4] and The New Atlantis.[5]

Books

External links

References

  1. "Baylor expands with new hire," Nov. 1. 2012, Baylor Lariat
  2. "Baylor Hires Alan Jacobs Away from Wheaton; He'll start at its Honors College in August 2013", Ted Olsen, Christianity Today, Oct. 25, 2012
  3. Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic, retrieved 2014-01-11.
  4. Alan Jacobs, First Things, retrieved 2014-01-11.
  5. Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis, retrieved 2014-01-11.
  6. Review of A Theology of Reading by J. Robert Baker (2002), Christianity and Literature 51 (4).
  7. Review of A Visit to Vanity Fair by J. C. Schaap (2001), Christian Century 118 (28): 31.
  8. Review of What Became of Wystan? by W. Todd Martin (2000), South Atlantic Review 65 (4): 225–228, JSTOR 320165.
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