Professor Dr. Jason Scott Warren

Biography

Jason Scott-Warren is a Professor in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. He studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and became a graduate student at the university from 1998 to 2004. After a period as a lecturer at the University of York, where he set up the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, he was appointed to a lectureship at Cambridge and a Fellowship at Gonville Caius College in 2004. His research focuses on early modern literature and the relationship between reading, material culture, and writing. He is the author of several important studies in early modern literature, including "Shakespeare's Reader: Paper Trails of Richard Stonley," published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. He has worked on projects such as the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts, focusing on embodied forms of study. He is known for his contributions to various aspects of literary and cultural history, coordinating initiatives to promote academic discussions in these fields. He has been involved in activism relating to climate change and has worked on projects that bridge literary studies and contemporary issues.

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