B.A., Calvin College; Ph.D., Michigan
Professor Jager is the author of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). He has also written the following articles: "After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism," Public Culture 18.2 (2006); "Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology," Modern Language Quarterly 63:1 (2002); "Natural Designs: Romanticism, Secularism, Theory," European Romantic Review 12.1 (2001); "Sacrifice and the Public Sphere," Contagion 5 (1998); "Paying for Piety: Henryk Gorecki in the West," Southern Humanities Review 31 (1997). Professor Jager is currently editing a volume for Romantic Circles on "Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism," with contributions by Paul Hamilton, Mark Canuel, Colin Jager, Bruce Robbins, and Michael Warner. He is currently the co-director of the "Mind and Culture" working group at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. His research interests include romantic literature, theology, and critical theory. |
Principles of Literary Study
Early Romantic Literature
Later Romantic Literature
British Literature 1800-Present
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Seminar) |
Romanticism and Epistemology
Writings of the Romantic Period
Romanticism and Consciousness |
