Professor Jason Hall

Professor Jason Hall is a literary and cultural historian whose research and teaching range across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published several books and articles on poetics, fiction, material culture, the history of science and technology. At Exeter Professor Hall teaches modules on critical theory, academic writing, poetry, sensation fiction and adventure romance. Occasionally he contributes to Exeter's Liberal Arts programme. 

Biography:

Professor Hall has worked at Exeter since 2004. From 2014 until 2016, he served as inaugural head of the Department of Penryn Humanities, comprising the disciplines of History and English. He served as Associate Director of Exeter's International Institute for Cultural Enquiry (now the Societies and Cultures Institute). Professor Hall is on research leave during term 1 of 2024-25.

Before coming to Exeter, Professor Hall taught in higher-education institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States. He holds a BA in English from Hendrix College, a small liberal arts college in his home state of Arkansas (pronounced AR-kan-saw), and a PhD in English from the University of London (Birkbeck College).

Research supervision:

Professor Hall welcomes enquiries from research students with interests in Victorian and twentieth-century literature, esp. poetry and sensation fiction; prosody and versification; history of science and technology.