Jared Hickman

Jared Hickman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. His research spans American literature, religious/secular studies, critical race theory, and settler colonial studies, with a focus on the global implications of early modern European expansion.

He authored Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery (2016), tracing the revival of the Prometheus myth across slave narratives, Romantic poetry, and Marx's work to map racialized global modernity. He co-edited Abolitionist Places (2013) and Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon (forthcoming), and has published in journals such as American Literature and PMLA. Currently, he is researching The Romance: An Indigenous History, analyzing the literary and ritual role of the romance genre in settler colonial contexts from medieval Britain to 19th-century America.