Nielsen, Jason
Title(s):
PhD Student
Email:
jnielsen@gc.cuny.edu
Institutional Affiliations: CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, American Studies, Digital Humanities, Pedagogy, Psychoanalysis
Jason Nielsen is generally interested in American literature, philosophy, and religious experience (Puritans to Enlightenment to Transcendentalism); the history of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory; and digital culture/history of the Internet. Currently he is attempting to think more about William James and his influence on or connections to psychology in the U.S. in the late 19th/early-20th century as well as theoretical intersections between James’s pragmatism and later forms of psychoanalytic writing.
He teaches at Queens College. Courses taught include: American Literature I, Introduction to American Studies (“America as an Idea”), Works of American Literature (for non-majors), Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film, and multiple versions of a freshmen composition course around the theme of technology and culture (“The Digital Revolution,” “Technology and Freedom,” and “Thinking and Computers”). Jason is in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program and he is currently developing Hybrid versions of a “Works of American Literature” course.
He is currently co-chair of the English Student Association with Paul Hebert, as well as co-chair of the Twentieth Century Area Studies Group. In 2013, he co-organized the English Student Association conference “Minding the Body: Dualism and Its Discontents.”
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