Fr. Jayme Stayer, S.J.

Professor, Department of English

Currently Associate Professor of English, Jayme Stayer is interested in the intersections of literature, poetry, music, theology, and rhetoric. In addition to articles on these subjects, Dr. Stayer is the co-editor, with Ronald Schuchard and Iman Javadi, of Volume 5 (1934-1939) of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot (Johns Hopkins, 2017), winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition. His most recent book is Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in “Inventions of the March Hare” (Johns Hopkins 2021); other books include Think About It: Critical Skills for Academic Writing, co-authored with John Mauk and Karen Mauk; and T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe (editor). He is currently working on a book on T. S. Eliot and religion for Penn State University Press’s Religion Around series. He is a past president of the International T. S. Eliot Society. A professional singer, he has performed with the choruses of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He joined the Jesuits in 2003 and was ordained a priest in 2013.