JAYME COLLINS, Ph.D.

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.

ABOUT

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

Teaching at Princeton

Instructor of Record

The Climate Story Studio, Professor Allison Carruth (Spring 2025), Preceptor and course coordinator

Environmental Studies 238: Environmental Movements, from Wilderness Conservation to Climate Justice, Professor Allison Carruth (Spring 2024), Lead preceptor

Mentorships and Internships

Environmental Storytelling, Blue Lab, a mentored internship program for two undergraduate students focusing on environmental research, audio production, and mapmaking (Summer 2024)

“Archival Ecologies,” Blue Lab, a mentored internship program for two undergraduate students and one graduate student including field work in Lytton, British Columbia, and the recording and producing of a podcast (Summer 2023)