Jacob Crane

Jacob Crane is an Associate Professor in the English and Media Studies department at Bentley University. Holding a PhD and MA from Tufts University alongside a BA from Boston University, Crane specializes in minority and diasporic authorship within early and nineteenth-century American literature.

• Research: American Literature, Atlantic & Diaspora Studies, Race & Children's Literature
• Teaching: Early American Literature, American Jewish Literature, African American Literature, Expository Writing

His scholarly work explores transatlantic cultural intersections, focusing on Barbary captivity narratives, interethnic literary representations, and secularism in early American treaties. Crane has published extensively on topics including Jewish-African American cultural dynamics, anti-heroic bodily representation in historical texts, and the diasporic imagination in print culture spanning 1784–1855.

Current affiliations include Bentley University's Lewis Hall office and active participation in faculty development initiatives. While no specific awards are listed, his contributions include editing sourcebooks on diasporic communities and analyzing colonial print representations of piracy and transatlantic figures.