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 the Public Humanities Teaching Fellow at Northwestern’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. She joined Northwestern from Princeton, where she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the High Meadows Environmental Institute and a project leader at Blue Lab. She has a PhD in English Literature from Northwestern University. She writes and produces an audio documentary series called Archival Ecologies.
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
Edited Volume
“Archives in Ice,” special issue of Media + Environment, with A Carruth, in preparation. CFP LINK
Articles
“Situated Poetry as Land Trust in Scotland and Barbados, 1983 and 1997,” New Literary History, forthcoming 2026.
“Climate Storytelling in Lytton, B.C., Canada: Salvaging Archives and Cultural Collections in the Burn Zone,” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 8.4 (2025): 1309-1326. LINK
“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