Dr. Jacob Stratman

Jacob Stratman has been at JBU, both as a professor and as an administrator, since 2007. He's published articles and book chapters in American literature and pedagogy, and his current research and teaching interests include contemporary poetry/poetics, the practice of hospitality, literature and pedagogy, and spiritual formation. He is the author of two poetry collections, What I Have I Offer With Two Hands (Cascade, 2019) and the shell of things (Kelsay, 2024). You can find his poems in journals like Ekstasis, The Christian Century, FreezeRay, Ekphrastic Review, 2 River, and others. His poem "To the Blue Heron on Sager Creek in Early June" received the 2021 Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry--Poem of Distinction. He serves as Dean of the College of Bible, Humanities, and Arts.