Alan Jacobs, Ph.D.

The Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia (1987)
B.A., University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (1980)

Biography

Dr. Alan Jacobs is The Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He began teaching at Baylor in 2013 and is a Resident Fellow of Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. Prior to his time at Baylor, Dr. Jacobs taught at Wheaton College in Illinois for twenty-nine years. He earned a B.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Dr. Jacobs is the author of many books including, most recently, How To Think and The Year of Our Lord 1943. His next book is called Breaking Bread with the Dead: The Case for Temporal Bandwidth (Penguin Press). More information about his research interests and writing may be found here: visit his website.

Academic Interests and Research

Modern British and British Commonwealth literature
Christian Theology and Literature
Literature and Religion
Literary Theory and the History of Criticism
Technologies of Reading, Writing and Research

Professional Awards/Activities/Grants and Fellowships

Visiting Writer, Seattle Pacific University MFA Program in Creative Writing (2009)
Visiting professor, Regent College Graduate School, Vancouver, British Columbia, (Summer 2006)
Visiting professor, Evangelical Churches of West Africa (ECWA) Seminary, Igbaja, Kwara State, Nigeria (Summer 1991).
Coordinator, Wheaton College Faculty Faith and Learning Program (1999-2006)
Director, Wheaton-in-England (summer study abroad program) 2000 and 1996
Co-director, Wheaton-in-England 2011 and 1994.