Jayme Collins is a scholar, writer, and audio producer. She studies poetry, land use, climate change, and archives. She tells stories about communities and cultures navigating environmental change.
Jayme is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University where she is a project leader at Blue Lab. She has a PhD in English Literature from Northwestern University.
WRITING
Book Project:
“Composing in the Field”
Academic
Public and Catalogue
Reviews
AUDIO
Archival Ecologies
TEACHING
Princeton
Northwestern
EVENTS
Pop-up Story Patch
Ephemera Institute
EXPERIMENTS
Coracle
Tinkering
Things I see
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Under Review and In Preparation
“Situated Poetry as Land Trust in Scotland and Barbados, 1983 and 1997,” under review.
“Climate Storytelling in Lytton, B.C., Canada: Salvaging Archives and Cultural Collections in the Burn Zone,” under review.
“Climate Change and the Archival Repertoires of Survivance,” in preparation.
“The Climate Story Incubator @ Blue Lab,” collaborative article with A Carruth, J Ng, N Otjen, and M Soriano, in preparation.
Published
“Sequences of Touch: Dried Flowers; Linen Rags; Rotten Potatoes; Wool Roving,” with Sheryda Warrener, Claire Battershill, and Amy E. Elkins, Inscription Journal: The Journal of Material Text—Theory, Practice, History Issue 4 (Fall 2023): 64-77. LINK
“Ecopoetic Antinomies: Inscription and Voice in Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 29.1 (Spring 2022): 159-180. LINK
“John Clare in Neon: Environmental Crisis and the Poetics of the Field,” Wordsworth Circle 52.3 (Summer 2021): 415-432. LINK