Jake Poller

Dr. Jake Poller is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the School of English and Drama. His research focuses on modern literature, esotericism, and the intersections of religion and culture. Poller has authored Aldous Huxley (2021) and Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality (2019), and edited Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century (2019). He currently works on a biography of Christopher Isherwood for the Reaktion Critical Lives series.

His teaching spans modules such as Modernism, High and Low Moderns, and English Research Dissertation. Poller’s scholarly work explores topics like occult imagery in literature, 20th-century spirituality, and the philosophical influences of figures like Aldous Huxley and D.H. Lawrence.

Recent publications analyze themes in Alan Moore’s Providence, tantric influences in Huxley’s Island, and theosophical movements in early 20th-century thought. His writing bridges literary criticism with interdisciplinary studies of religion, psychology, and cultural history.