Faculty Profile
Jacob Sider Jost
Associate Professor of English (2011)
Contact Information
East College
717-254-8950
Bio
I am a teacher and scholar of literature, focused on the British eighteenth century. At Dickinson I teach courses about the epic, Shakespeare, the early novel, eighteenth-century poetry and drama, and fairy stories from Spenser to the Grimms. I am the author of two monographs, Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 (2015), and Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano (2020), both from the University of Virginia Press. I have also published essays on Shakespeare, Shaftesbury, Defoe, Hume, Johnson, Cowper, Proust, and other figures. I am currently writing a history of life-writing in eighteenth-century Britain for Oxford University Press.
Education
- B.A., Goshen College, 2002
- B.A., University of Oxford, 2005
- M.A., 2009
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011