Jason Peters
- Delp 223
- [email protected]
- (517) 607-2431
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“Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener.”— Moby Dick
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Jason Peters
Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1994
M.A., Michigan State University, 1989
B.A., Calvin College, 1986
Publications
The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, Godfearing Gourmand, author, FPR Books, 2020
Land! The Case For an Agrarian Economy, by John Crowe Ransom, editor; Notre Dame, 2017
Localism in the Mass Age, co-editor, FPR Books, 2018
Wendell Berry: Life and Work, editor; Kentucky, 2007
Jason Peters joined Hillsdale’s faculty in the fall of 2021 after spending 25 years at Augustana College, where he was Dorothy J. Parkander Professor in Literature. He has published on (among other writers) Wendell Berry, Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot, John Donne, Henry Adams, S.T. Coleridge, Walker Percy, and C.S. Lewis. He is the editor-in-chief of Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic and also of Front Porch Republic Books, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Rickety at the knees now, Peters has traded in the basketball shoes that once carried him to All-State honors in Michigan for chest waders and golf spikes, one or the other of which he wears when in search of either brook trout or birdies, both exceedingly scarce these days. He raises lambs and keeps laying hens on a small farm in Ingham County. He and his wife, Kristin, have three children, Emma (Hillsdale ’20), Jakob, and Wyatt.