Jason Bell (USA)

Jason Bell
MSt in English and American Studies

In 2013, I graduated from Columbia University (summa cum laude) with a BA in English and Comparative Literature. During my time at Columbia, I was the Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Review and a restaurant critic for the Columbia Daily Spectator. I also ran several marathons.

In 2014, I graduated from Oxford with an MSt in English and American Studies, with distinction. My thesis was titled "On the Verge of the Concave World: Antebellum Antarctica and the Early Midwest." As an Ertegun Scholar, I organized a film series at Ertegun House called "Boundary Film" with my fellow Scholar Junting Huang. I also convened an international conference, "Alt-American: Implausible History, Geography, Science, and Literature of Nineteenth-Century America."

 

Life after Ertegun House

In 2018, I received my PhD in English from Yale University. My project, Archiving Displacement in America, received the department's prize for best dissertation of the year. I am currently revising my manuscript for publication. Beginning fall 2018, I will be a JD student at Harvard Law School.