Education
B.A., University of Minnesota, 2004
Ph.D., Emory University, 2011
Dr. Jacob Hovind, PhD
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
European Literature
Literary Theory
Comparative Literary History
Biography
Jacob Hovind teaches courses covering a variety of world literatures, with special
emphases on European modernism, Jewish literature, and the global contemporary. He
has published articles on a wide range of figures including, Samuel Beckett, Erich
Auerbach, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, and David Foster Wallace. His research crosses
disciplines, national traditions, and media, exploring both literature and film, and
frequently the intersection of literary and religious discourse. He is currently at
work on a book-length project exploring the epiphany concept in modern literature
and film.