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Jason Crawford teaches and writes about early modern literature and culture. He is the author of two books – Allegory and Enchantment (Oxford University Press, 2017) and God’s Fools (Bloomsbury, 2026) – and his essays have appeared in publications such as Christianity and Literature, ELH, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The Cresset, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Crawford has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and at the University of Tennessee’s Marco Institute. At Â鶹ÊÓƵ, his teaching interests include not just early modern English writers but also ancient epic and drama, Dante, problems of tragedy and suffering, and the history of comedy and laughter. He also teaches in the university’s interdisciplinary Honors Integrative Studies program. He was named Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Faculty Member of the Year in 2019 and Faculty Researcher of the Year in 2025.