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 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.


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  

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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)