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Jamie Christopher Callison

Professor

Institutt for fremmedspråk og oversetting

E-post: jamie.c.callison@uia.no
Telefon: +47 38142061
Mobiltelefon: +4791657212

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Jeg jobber som professor i engelsk litteratur ved Universitetet i Agder. Jeg underviser litteratur i engelsk med spesialisering i poesi og poetikk, modernisme og litteratur og religion. Jeg har skrevet artikler om T.S. Eliot, David Jones og den religiøse kulturen av det 1900-tallets som har bli publisert i tidsskriftene «ELH», «Literature and Theology» og «Modernist Cultures». Jeg har publisert (sammen med Thomas Goldpaugh) en vitenskapelig kommentarutgave av et upublisert dikt. Diktet var skrivet av David Jones og hetes «The Grail Mass» (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018; pocketbok: 2022). Min monografi som heter «Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy» ble publisert av Edinburgh University Press i august 2023. Min vitenskapelige antologi (redigert med Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen og Erik Tonning) heter «The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives» ble utgitt av Bloomsbury Academic i juni 2024.

Les mer om «Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy» på UiA netssiden her.

Forskning

Modernisme, litteratur og religion, kultur, poesi og poetikk, diktlesing og lyrikkfestival, vitenskapelig kommentar

Utvalgte publikasjoner

MONOGRAFI

«Modernism and Religion: Between Orthodoxy and Mysticism» (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). ISBN: 9781474457224.https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474457248

VITENSKAPELIG KOMMENTARUTGAVE

«The Grail Mass and Other Works» by David Jones» redigert av Thomas Goldpaugh & Jamie Callison (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018; pocketbok, 2022). ISBN: 9781350052062; pocketbok: 9781350277267.

TIDSSKRIFTER ARTIKLER

«Dissociating Psychology: Religion, Poetic Inspiration and T.S. Eliot’s Subliminal Mind», ELH 84 (2017): 1029-1059. https://doi.org/0.1353/elh.2017.0039

«David Jones’s «Barbaric-fetish:» Frazer and the «Aesthetic Value» of the Liturgy», Modernist Cultures 12 (2017): 438-61. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2017.0186

«Jesuits and Modernism? Catholic Anti-Modernism and Versions of Late Modernism», Literature and Theology 31 (2017): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frw005

«An Unnoticed Liturgical Parallel in T.S. Eliot’s A Song for Simeon», Notes and Queries 61 (2014): 592-594. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gju132

BOKKAPITLER I VITENSKAPELIG ANTOLOGI

«Virginia Woolf and Modernist Mysticism» i «The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf, Modernism and Religion», redigert av Jane de Gay og Gabrielle McIntire (Edinburgh UP, 2024).

«Introduction» (skrevet med Erik Tonning, Anna Svendsen and Matthew Feldman) i «The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives», redigert av Jamie Callison, Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen and Erik Tonning (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), pp. 1-16. ISBN: 9781350450554.

«Additions and Editions: H.D. and the Archive» (skrevet med Matte Robinson) i «The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives», redigert av Jamie Callison, Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen and Erik Tonning (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), pp. 207-19. ISBN: 9781350450554.

«Sacred Ground: Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change», i «The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion», redigert av Suzanne Hobson og Andrew Radford (Edinburgh UP, 2022), pp. 373-88. ISBN: 9781474494786. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474494793-026

«Directing Modernist Spirituality: Evelyn Underhill, the Subliminal Conscious, and Spiritual Direction» i «Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness», redigert av Elizabeth Anderson, Andrew Radford og Heather Walton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 39-54. ISBN: 9781137530363. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53036-3_3

Undervisning

PhD-program i litteraturvitenskap

Jobbet som et midtveisseminar kommentator.

Masteroppgave i engelsk (EN-500)

Veiledet to oppgaver om Shakespeare og en om moderne elegi.

Litteratur, religion og det sekulære (EN-472) (emneansvarlig)

Diskuterer koblinger mellom religion, litteratur og sekularitet og bruker post- sekulær teori.

Beat-kultur: Litteratur og billedkunst (TFL-111) (emneansvarlig)

Et kurs som inkluderer litteraturstudier, kunsthistorie og kreativ praksis. Kurset bruker på Wennesland-kunstkolleksjonen som utgangspunkt.

Bacheloroppgave i engelsk (EN-212) (emneansvarlig)

Veiledet prosjekter om Sylvia Plath, Contemporary American Fiction, Queer Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Don DeLillo, og Mary Butts.
Undervist skriveseminarer og forskerferdigheter.

Modernisme (EN-220) (emneansvarlig)

Emne diskuterer modernistisk litteratur i kobling til utviklinger i kultur for eksempel urbanisering, teknologi, religion og spiritualitet, sinnet og psykologien, rase og rasisme, tid, kjønn og seksualitet, og krig.

Amerikansk og britisk litteratur del 2 (EN-167)

Foreleste og underviste seminarer om amerikansk, britisk og global engelsk litteratur etter 1900.

Britisk og amerikansk litteratur og kultur del 1 (EN-166) (emneansvarlig)

Foreleste og underviste seminarer om amerikansk og britisk litteratur før 1900.

Kort biografi

Professor i engelsk litteratur, Institutt for fremmedspråk og oversettelse, Fakultet for humaniora og utdanning, Universitetet i Agder (2023-i dag)
Førsteamanuensis i engelsk litteratur, Institutt for fremmedspråk og oversettelse, Fakultet for humaniora og utdanning, Universitetet i Agder (2022-23)
Forsker, David Jones Center, Honors College, Washington Adventist University, Maryland, USA (2021-2022)
Førsteamanuensis i engelsk litteratur, Fakultet for lærerutdanning og kunst- og kulturfag (FLU), Nord universitet (2017-2022)
Tilknyttet Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame (2018)
Tilknyttet Oxford Center for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford (2015-16)
Tilknyttet Editorial Institute, University of Boston (2014-2015)

Callison, Jamie Christopher; Feldman, Matthew; Svendsen, Anna & Tonning, Erik (2024). 'Introduction: Re-Presenting and Re-Imagining Modernist Archives'. I Callison, Jamie Christopher; Feldman, Matthew; Svendsen, Anna & Tonning, Erik (Red.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350450554. s. 1–16.
Callison, Jamie Christopher & Robinson, Matte (2024). ‘Additions and Editions: H.D. and the Archive’. I Callison, Jamie Christopher; Feldman, Matthew; Svendsen, Anna & Tonning, Erik (Red.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350450554. s. 207–219.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2023). ‘Sacred Ground: Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change’. I Hobson, Suzanne & Radford, Andrew (Red.), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474494786. s. 373–388. doi: 10.1515/9781474494793-026.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2021). Redefining Marriage in Interwar Britain: Internal Transformation and Personal Sacrifice in the Poetry of H.D. I Mohammed, Jowan Abbas & Jacob, Frank (Red.), Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110751338. s. 187–206. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1515/9783110751451.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2018). A Poet of Distraction: Recent Work on David Jones. Essays in Criticism. ISSN 0014-0856. 68(3), s. 397–406. doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgy008.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2017). Transmuting F.H. Bradley: T.S. Eliot's notes towards a theory of poetry. I Morgenstern, John D. (Red.), The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual: volume 1. Liverpool University Press. ISSN 9781942954286. s. 99–113.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2017). David Jones’ ‘Barbaric-fetish’: Frazer and the ‘Aesthetic Value’ of the Liturgy. Modernist Cultures. ISSN 2041-1022. 12(3), s. 439–462. doi: 10.3366/mod.2017.0186. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Much recent critical interest in the relationship between modernism and religion has concerned itself with the occult, spiritualism, and theosophy as opposed to institutional religion, relying on an implicit analogy between the experimental in religion and the experimental in art. I argue that considering Christianity to be antithetical to modernism not only obscures an important facet of modernist religious culture, but also misrepresents the at-once tentative and imaginative thinking that marks the modernist response to religion. I explore the ways in which the poet-painter David Jones combined sources familiar from cultural modernism – namely Frazer's The Golden Bough – with Catholic thinking on the Eucharist to constitute a modernism that is both hopeful about the possibilities for aesthetic form and cautious about the unavoidable limitations of human creativity. I present Jones's openness to the creative potential of the Mass as his equivalent to the more recognisably modernist explorations of non-Western and ancient ritual: Eliot's Sanskrit poetry, Picasso's African masks, and Stravinsky's shamanic rites and suggest that his understanding of the church as overflowing with creative possibilities serves as a counterweight to the empty churches of Pericles Lewis’ seminal work, Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2017). Dissociating psychology: Religion, inspiration, and T. S. Eliot's subliminal mind. ELH: English literary history. ISSN 0013-8304. 84(4), s. 1029–1059. doi: 10.1353/elh.2017.0039. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Using archival resources, I outline T. S. Eliot's fascination with the porous borders between science and religion. I show how the notion of a dissociated consciousness developed by the French psychologist Pierre Janet informed the "dissociation of sensibility," and how Janet's idea, repackaged as the subliminal mind and used by psychologists of religion such as William James, shaped the account of the creative process developed in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. I suggest this contextualization of Eliot's penchant for both mysticism and skepticism informs the slippages in tone, at once visionary and moribund, in "The Hollow Men."
Callison, Jamie (2017). Introduction: Unorthodox Orthodoxies. Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion. ISSN 0034-4346. 69(3), s. 132–136. doi: 10.5840/renascence201769311.
Callison, Jamie (2017). Jesuits and modernism? Catholic responses to anti-modernism and versions of late modernism. Literature & Theology. ISSN 0269-1205. 31(1), s. 1–18. doi: 10.1093/litthe/frw005.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2016). Directing Modernist Spirituality: Evelyn Underhill, the Subliminal Conscious, and Spiritual Direction. I Anderson, Elizabeth (Red.), Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-1-137-53036-3. s. 39–54. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53036-3.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). 'Celestial Music Unheard: T. S. Eliot, "Marina" and the Via Negativa'. I Grzegorzewska, Małgorzata (Red.), Breaking the Silence: Poetry and the Kenotic Word. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631655146. s. 117–135.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2014). '"Nie dla mnie ostateczna wizja:" wiersze Ariela T. S. Eliota a doświadczenie religijne' [trans. Maria Fengler] (Original title: '"Not for me the ultimate vision:" T. S. Eliot's Ariel Poems and Religious Experience'). I Ward, Jean (Red.), Między słowem i rzeczywistością. Poezja Eliota wobec cielesności i W/wcielenia. University of Gdansk Press. ISSN 978-83-786-5301-1. s. 91–112.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2014). An Unnoticed Liturgical Parallel in T.S. Eliot’s 'A Song for Simeon'. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 61(4), s. 592–594. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gju132.

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Callison, Jamie Christopher; Feldman, Matthew; Svendsen, Anna & Tonning, Erik (2024). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350450554. 384 s.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2023). Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy . Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474457224. 256 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Jones, David; Goldpaugh, Thomas & Callison, Jamie Christopher (2022). David Jones's The Grail Mass and Other Works. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350277267. 294 s.
Callison, Jamie Christopher & Goldpaugh, Thomas (2018). David Jones's The Grail Mass and Other Works. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350052062. 279 s.
Callison, Jamie Christopher; Fiddes, Paul S.; Johnson, Anna & Tonning, Erik (2017). David Jones: A Christian Modernist? New Approaches to his Art, Poetry and Cultural Theory. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004356979. 12(1). 297 s.
Callison, Jamie (2016). Directing Modernist Spirituality: Evelyn Underhill, the Subliminal Conscious, and Spiritual Direction. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-53036-3. 15 s.

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Callison, Jamie Christopher (2023). 'Book Review of "Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns." By Suzanne Hobson.'. Literature and history. ISSN 0306-1973. 32(1), s. 1–3. doi: 10.1177/03061973231186644.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2023). ‘Rediscovering the Moravians: Between Credulity and Credibility in the Lived Religion of H.D.’.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2023). Keynote Lecture: ‘“Fools to the World”: Transatlantic Connections in the Twentieth-Century Arts and Crafts and Retreat Movements’.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2022). ‘Poetic Conversions in a Secular Age: Epiphany, Human Rights, and Retreat in David Jones’.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2021). 'The Grail Mass: Reassessing David Jones’.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2021). ‘Editing David Jones’.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2020). 'Silent Protest: Ditchling and the Rhythms of the Modern Retreat Movement'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2019). ‘[Review of] Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture. By Jane de Gay’. Literature & Theology. ISSN 0269-1205. s. 1–4. doi: 10.1093/litthe/frz010.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2019). 'Bearing with Reality: Making Retreats with T.S. Eliot’.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2019). 'Out-of-this-World Love: Denis de Rougemont on Eros and Agape'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2018). New Orthodoxy: Revisiting T.S. Eliot’s Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Vis sammendrag
For the philosopher Charles Taylor, religion in the world today is unavoidably cosmopolitan; believers and non-believers alike recognize that their particular worldviews are not part of a single hierarchical order, but rather contrast and conflict with those held by others. Taylor’s understanding of the modern religious perspectives provides a vantage point on what has often been viewed as a defiantly non-cosmopolitan work of social criticism: T.S. Eliot’s Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. In returning to this text, I draw out Eliot’s engagement with the situation Taylor describes. In particular, I highlight Eliot’s critique of Malinowski’s functionalist school of anthropology, exploring how, in Eliot’s view, their concerns with the integration of society and religion in cultures outside Europe and the US inadvertently impoverished the language available for discussions of institutional religion. I explore Eliot’s interest in the individual believer making sense of his or her faith in the context of modernity, and argue that a deeper engagement with religious subjectivity can help address some of the challenges associated with cosmopolitanism.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2018). Introductory Talk on James Whale's 'Frankenstein' (1931).
Callison, Jamie Christopher & Hanssen, Jessica Allen (2018). Frankenversions: 200 Years of Adapting 'Frankenstein'. Vis sammendrag
This exhibition celebrates the story and its afterlife in popular culture in many different versions. Frankenstein has, ﬁttingly enough, a life of its own now, which we hope you will take the time to explore through our various exhibits. The exhibition is part of a larger project called Frankenreads, which is being hosted at over 500 universities and libraries around the world to celebrate Mary Shelley’s 1818 achievement. Through this exhibition and our other Frankenreads events, we hope to inspire new appreciation for Shelley’s singular imagination.
Callison, Jamie Christopher & McKendry, Andrew James (2018). Ice and Fire: 'Frankenstein' and the Arctic. Vis sammendrag
The beginning and the end of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein (1818), centre on the Arctic explorer, Robert Walton. Fuelled by a desire to navigate the Northwest Passage and to locate Magnetic North – desires that are recounted in epistolary form in the novel – Walton leads an ultimately failed expedition to the Arctic. On the polar ice during this journey, he meets Victor Frankenstein and finds him close to death. The events of the novel are framed as the story Frankenstein writes and recounts to Walton during his convalescence; it is a story that includes the fact that the doctor travelled to the Arctic in pursuit of his infamous creation with the intention of snuffing out what he once had brought to life. This exhibition looks at how Shelley's novel draws on and contributes to contemporary fascination with Arctic expeditions, surveying both the aesthetic inspiration polar exploration afforded artists and writers and the scientific interests attached to it.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2018). Ritual Observance: Modernism and Lived Religion. Vis sammendrag
This paper argues that the concerns of functionalist anthropology inadvertently impoverished the language available for discussions of institutional religion, reading T.S. Eliot’s ‘Notes towards the Definition of Culture' against this backdrop. It uses David Jones’s work as exemplified by ‘In Parenthesis’ and the previously unpublished poem ‘The Grail Mass’ to highlight the complex interactions between theology and anthropology through the first half of the twentieth century and to challenge approaches to the study of modernism and religion reliant upon the idea of ‘syncretism’. The paper argues that Jones's poetry provides a window on to a mature experience of institutional religion, and presents this as an alternative to a focus on dogma, hierarchy and orthodoxy.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2017). 'Plenary: Conference Conclusion'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2017). [Review of] The Astral H.D.: Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts for H.D.’s Poetry and Prose. By Matte Robinson’. Modernism/Modernity. ISSN 1071-6068. 24(4), s. 889–891. doi: 10.1353/mod.2017.0073.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2016). 'History as Distraction: Sacrament, Liturgy, Poetics'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2016). '[Review of] Young Eliot: From St. Louis to "The Waste Land"'. By Robert Crawford'. Christianity & Literature. ISSN 0148-3331. 65(2), s. 257–259. doi: 10.1177/0148333115614505.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). 'Religious Genius and Spiritual Pedagogy in Evelyn Underhill'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). 'Liturgical Poesis: Rapture, Ritual, and Reform in Christian Modernism and David Jones'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). 'Evelyn Underhill's Awakening of the Soul: An Alternative Modernist Religiosity'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). 'Knowing Nothing: Revelatory Experience, Pathologized Mysticism and the Divided Mind of Eliot Studies'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). 'The Dying God at the Last Supper: David Jones, J.G. Frazer, and Eucharistic Theology'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2015). '"The Spark of the Soul": Evelyn Underhill and Spiritual Transformation',
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2014). 'The Poetry of Irruption: T. S. Eliot and Early Psychology'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2014). 'The Secret History of Medieval Spirituality: Eliot, Jones reading Julian of Norwich'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2013). 'Psychical Training: Interwar Theorists of Mysticism and Popular Literature'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher (2013). Celestial Music Unheard: "Marina" and the Christian Mystical Experience'.
Callison, Jamie Christopher & Tonning, Erik (2016). Converting Modernism. Mystical Revival, Christian Late Modernism and the Long Religious Poem in T.S. Eliot and David Jones. Universitetet i Bergen. ISSN 978-82-308-3225-7.

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Publisert 16. apr. 2024 11:39 - Sist endret 17. juni 2024 23:36