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| Colin Jager |
| Associate Professor of English |
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Contact Information |
| Office: |
36 Union Street, 303 |
| Campus: |
College Ave, New Brunswick |
| Email: |
colin.jager@rutgers.edu |
| Telephone: |
(732) 932-4874 |
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On leave Academic Year 2008-09
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| Specialization |
| Romantic literature, secularism, religion, cognitive science, philosophy and literature |
| Biography |
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). Recent articles include: "Byron and Romantic Occidentalism" Romantic Circles Praxis, August 2008; "A Poetics of Dissent; or, Pantisocracy in America," Theory and Event 10.1 (2007); "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). He has forthcoming essays on Romanticism and Consciousness and on the philosopher Charles Taylor. In 2006 and 2007 he was the co-director of the "Mind and Culture" working group at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. He is at work on a book on secularism and romanticism tentatively titled
After Secularism. |
| Publications |
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"Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism, Romantic Circles Praxis."
ed. Colin Jager
"A Poetics of Dissent; or, Pantisocracy in America." Theory and Event, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2007.
"After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism." Public Culture, Vol. 18, Issue 2, Spring 2006.
"Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology." Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 63, Issue 1, March 2002. |
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| Undergraduate Courses Taught |
Graduate Courses Taught |
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 |
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