JACOB NIELSEN

Brigham Young University

jacobkurtnielsen@byu.edu

EDUCATION

ENGLISH, MA
Thesis: “Yup, So-Jeer”: Interlanguage and Ruptured Translation in Charles Dickens’s The Perils of Certain English
Prisoners
Directors: Jamie Horrocks, Emron Esplin, Evan Ward
Emphases: Victorian Literature, Transatlanticism, Post-Colonialism
Brigham Young University, 2019 – 4.0 GPA

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, BA
Emphasis: Latin American History & Politics
Minor: English
Distinctions: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha
Brigham Young University, 2017 – 3.96 GPA

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2018-2019 Program Assistant, University Writing

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2017-2018 Teaching Mentee, English

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2017-2019 Graduate Instructor, University Writing

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2016 Teaching Assistant, Political Science

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2016-2017 Teaching Assistant, Religious Education

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2015-2017 Research Assistant, Political Science

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

TEACHING (BYU—MA Student)

English 251 Introduction to English Studies

Co-Taught with Jamie Horrocks – Fall 2018

English 295 Writing Literary Criticism

Co-Taught with Jamin Rowan – Spring 2018
English 315 Writing in the Social Sciences
Winter 2019

English 374 British Romantic Literature—Poetry & the Rise of the Novel
Co-Taught with Paul Westover – Winter 2018

Writing 150 Writing & Rhetoric

Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019

INTERNSHIPS (BYU—MA Student)

2018 Teaching Advanced Composition

Mentors: Jill Larsen & Delys Snyder

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

2016 Criterion: A Student Journal of Literary Criticism

Paper: “Beyond Reason: Ophelia’s Quest for Truth.” Criterion, vol. 9, no. 2, 2016, pp. 37-47.
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2018 Harold B. Lee Library Donor Meeting

Thesis Presentation, Provo, UT

2018 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS)

Series, Cycles, Suspensions, San Francisco, CA
Paper: “Dickens, Pirates, and the Purse: Double-Edged Economic Colonialism in Central America”

2017 Middle Eastern Revolutionary Politics

Capstone Presentation, Provo, UT
Paper: “The Power of the Image: Revolutionary Discourse in Tunisia”

2016 BYU English Symposium

Shakespearean Panel, Provo, UT
Paper: “Beyond Reason: Ophelia’s Quest for Truth”

GUEST LECTURE INVITATION

2018 The “Woman” Question and Victorian Literature

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
ACADEMIC GRANTS

2018 BYU Research Presentation Award ($400)

2017 Harold B. Lee Library Research Grant ($1,500)

2016 BYU London Center Grant ($1,150)

2016-2017 BYU Kennedy Center for International & Area Studies Grant ($2,650)

2015 BYU Jerusalem Center Grant ($3,225)

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS

2017-2019 Parley Christensen Scholarship

MA, Full-Tuition

2016-2017 Karl G. Maeser Scholarship

BA, Full-Tuition + Stipend

2016 BYU Spring & Summer Scholarship

BA, Full-Tuition

2015-2016 Brigham Young Scholarship

BA, Full-Tuition

2015 BYU Spring & Summer Scholarship

BA, Full-Tuition

2014-2015 Elva Pedersen Jorgenson Scholarship

BA, Full-Tuition

2011-2012 Brigham Young Scholarship

BA, Half-Tuition

STUDY ABROADS

2016 BYU London Center

United Kingdom, France – Fall

2015 BYU Jerusalem Center

Israel, Turkey, Jordan – Spring & Summer

LANGUAGES

2012-Present Spanish (Fluent)