Humanities Teaching Fellow
Cohort Year:
2014
Research Interests:
Modernism; the late 19thcentury novel in English and French; global capitalism; material culture; urban studies
Biography
Jacob Harris earned his B.A in English from York University, Toronto. Before coming to Chicago, he spent a year teaching English as a second language at a public high school in southern France. His research interests focus on the phenomenon of luxury in the late 19thand early 20thcenturies, at the intersection between aesthetic, economic, and social-scientific thought.