Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant is a poet, scholar, and writer whose honors include the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is full professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He has received fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, and the University of East Anglia. His books include the philosophical treatise Engagements with Aimé Césaire and the literary nonfiction work The Possibility of Tenderness. He is an associate editor of the literary journal Callaloo.

At the Institute, Allen-Paisant will be working on Overwhelm: A Journey Beneath, a novel that explores hidden and unregarded spaces—particularly caves, sinkholes, and other geological formations—as sites of historical refuge and self-discovery.