Dr Simon Jackson

Dr Simon Jackson is Director of Music and Bye-Fellow at Peterhouse. In addition to his role directing the college choir and music society, his academic work explores the relationship between music and poetry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, with a particular interest in the religious poetry and song of the period. He is a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, and is also a College Teaching Associate in English at Peterhouse and Director of Studies in English at Hughes Hall. His doctoral thesis, exploring the literary and musical activities of the poet-priest George Herbert, won the George Herbert Society Chauncey Wood Prize, and his article on George Herbert and English masque culture article won the English Literary Renaissance award in 2015. His first book, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

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