Jared Hickman

Jared Hickman {[email protected]} is assistant professor of Eng￾lish at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery, and co-editor with Elizabeth Fenton of Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon (both forthcoming from Oxford University Press), as well as articles in American Literature, Early American Literature, The New England Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, PMLA, and other venues.

Articles

Learning to Read with the Book of Mormon

Dialogue 48.1 (Spring 2015):169–177
In this “From the Pulpit,” Jared Hickman discussed the self-confessed weaknesses of multiple authors in the Book of Mormon, indicating that the text is not the literal word of God. He observes that it still has sacred truths to teach us including on racism.

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Podcasts

Dialogue Lectures #28 w/ Jared Hickman

The newest Dialogue podcast features Dr. Jared Hickman, Assistant Professor in the English Department of Johns Hopkins University. Professor Hickman speaks on his essay “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” which was published in American… Read more