Jason de Stefano is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and collegiate assistant professor in the humanities at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020 and is an alumnus of the University of Chicago (A.B. ’12). His research focuses on American literature and culture from the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, with additional interest in the histories of science and technology, religion, and law. He is currently working on a book about the history of creativity.
Publications
“The Gospel of Creativity,” forthcoming in New Literary History 53, no. 2 (spring 2022).
“The Birth of Creativity: Emerson’s Creative Impulse,” Modern Language Quarterly 80, no. 2 (June 2019): 167–193.
“Persona Ficta: Frederick Douglass,” English Literary History 85, no. 3 (fall 2018): 775–800.
Courses
Human Being & Citizen I–III (fall 2021–present)