Events

Literature and Theology in Conversation with keynote speakers Prof. Romana Huk and Prof. Ben Quash.

With keynote addresses by Prof. Romana Huk & Prof. Michael Hurley

“Finding Your Voice, Finding Your Audience” Panel Discussion

“Works in Progress: A Conversation with New Zealand Poet Ben Egerton”

Conversations with poet Shane McCrae, and Charles La Porte and Lori Branch, co-editors of the Cambridge Elements Series, Literature and Religion since 1500.

“Mestizaje, Spirituality, and Feminist Redress in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God (1993)”

“Soaked: Religion, Gender, and Theory through M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!”

“A Poetics of Hospitality through the Work of Anne Carson”

“On Christian Spirituality and Criticism”: In Conversation with R. S. Thomas

Interviews with Eliza Sanders and Miho Nonaka + Discussion

“Breathturn: The ‘Christology’ of Paul Celan”

“Hopeful Despair: The Enigma of Clarice Lispector”

“Womanist Spirituality in Literature: A Discussion of Alice Walker’s Short Stories, In Love & Trouble”

Panel Discussion + “Conversation and Q&A with Prof. Susannah Monta”

“Margaret Atwood and Faith”

“‘Horrible Grace’: A Study in Flannery O’Connor”

“Lyric and Spirit: The Poetics of Breath in Hank Lazer’s The New Spirit”

“‘The strength to bear life again’: The Poetry of Rebirth in Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, and Luis Cernuda”

“The Abyss: Nietzsche, Futility, and Du Fu, an 8th-Century Chinese Poet”

“‘That Glorious Form, that Light insufferable’: Poetry of Incarnation in Milton and Hart Crane”

“Travel, Perspective, and Gender: Revelation in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”

“Writing and Reading Death: Poetics, Reception, and Beliefs in Dialogue”

“Of ‘things unknown’: A Discussion of the Work of Thomas Traherne”

“Ancient Clarity Overlaid: A Discussion of Lawrence Joseph’s, So Where Are We?”

“Marginalized Voices: Poems of African- and Native-American Experience.”

“Visual Poetics in/through Ancient and Experimental Texts: Works from St. Augustine’s Gospel, Charles Bernstein, and Susan Howe”

“Christian Reading Practices: Passages from Dante’s Purgatorio, with commentary by Jorge Luis Borges, and T.S. Eliot’s ‘Compound Ghost’ in Little Gidding”

“Poetics Ancient and Modern: A Comparison of T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding and Virgil’s Ecologues”