Eric Jager

{{short description|American historian (born 1957)}}

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|alma_mater=University of Michigan

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Eric Jager (born April 27, 1957) is an American literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature. He is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles, received his B.A. from Calvin College in 1979, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987.[https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/jager-eric/ Eric Jager at UCLA] He has also taught at Columbia University as an associate professor.[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/jager-eric-1957 JAGER, Eric 1957-]{{Cite journal|last=Jager|first=Eric|date=1996|title=The Book of the Heart: Reading and Writing the Medieval Subject|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2865198|journal=Speculum|volume=71|issue=1|pages=1–26|doi=10.2307/2865198|jstor=2865198 |s2cid=162115473 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription}}