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Professor Jamie Christopher Callison is a faculty member at the University of Agder, Norway, serving as Professor of English Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation. He holds a prominent role in the Faculty of Humanities and Education. His career includes positions such as Associate Professor (2022–2023) and Research Fellowships at institutions like the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture (2015–2016). His research focuses on modernism, literature and religion, and literary editing, with a particular emphasis on figures like T.S. Eliot, David Jones, and H.D.
Callison’s scholarship bridges literary studies and religious culture, exploring themes such as mysticism, orthodoxy, and the archival turn. Notable works include the monograph Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy (2023) and the co-edited volume The Grail Mass and Other Works by David Jones (2018). He has contributed to leading journals such as ELH, Modernist Cultures, and Literature and Theology.
His teaching spans undergraduate and graduate programs, including courses on modernism, Beat culture, and literature and religion. He has supervised master’s theses on topics like Shakespearean performance, literary representations of domestic abuse, and adaptation of Greek myths. Callison is also active in research initiatives such as the Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives (2024) and his upcoming project Enchanting Poetry: Counterculture, Literature and Religion in the Long 1960s.
His awards include a shortlist for the ESSE first book prize (2023). Callison collaborates with international research networks, including the Sensus communis group, and has curated exhibitions like Frankenversions: 200 Years of Adapting Frankenstein (2018).
