About

Jacob studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 2020, and stayed for a Master’s in medieval literature, graduating in 2021. He then completed his DPhil at University College, funded by the AHRC and the Clarendon Fund, studying the impact of the Reformation on the English morality play. Jacob’s articles on morality plays, the editing of Shakespeare, and seventeenth-century poetry have appeared in The Review of English Studies, Essays in Criticism, and The Seventeenth Century. He has a side interest in early print culture, and the books people in the past actually read, on which he write an occasional Substack.

 

Responsibilities

At Regent’s Jacob teaches English literature from 1550 to 1760 and is assistant Director of Studies for English. He will be serving as full Director of Studies for Trinity Term 2027. He is also a lecturer in early modern English at Corpus Christi College.