Jason Boulet

Jason completed his undergraduate degree at Mount Allison University and his master’s degree at Queen’s University. He then completed his doctoral studies at Queen’s, where his research was funded by a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship. For his graduate studies, Jason chose to specialize in Victorian literature, with an emphasis on poetry, Pre-Raphaelitism, aestheticism, and decadence.

Jason has published academic articles and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Victorian Poetry, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. In his time at Queen’s University as a teaching assistant and instructor, Jason taught material ranging from the medieval period to the 20^th century, and he acted as full instructor in courses at the first-, second-, and fourth-year levels, in areas including historical surveys of British literature, Romantic poetry and poetics, Victorian literature and culture, nineteenth-century constructions of selfhood, Gothic fiction and monstrosity, and fin-de-siècle literature.

Jason is a dedicated and passionate teacher, who believes in taking an interdisciplinary approach that connects the cultural riches of the past to the everyday experiences and concerns of his students. He encourages them to develop (or simply to deepen) a genuine enthusiasm for the arts and humanities, improving their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills in the process.