by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 18, 2017 | Reading Well, The Bible
I recently got to be the keynote speaker for Saints and Scholars on the importance of literature for the church. As part of that, I found myself contemplating the story of the Good Samaritan…or rather what comes just before the Good Samaritan. The brief exchange...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 1, 2017 | Academic Conferences, News
On July 28th, I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at Saints & Scholars. This Lilly Endowed program brings high school students together from around the country to “think deeply about how…faith relates to big questions facing our world.” I was...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 15, 2017 | News
On July 1, I officially started my new position as Assistant Professor at Holy Cross College (Notre Dame, IN). Holy Cross is a small college and, like many similar colleges, has an English Department that is very small. In fact, I’m the only full-time professor,...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 26, 2017 | The Bible
“What do you want to be when you grown up?” This question is the favorite for primary school programs and end-of-academic year reflection. The wording gets nuanced as you get older…people start asking, “what do you want to do after college,” but the sentiment is the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 1, 2017 | College Classes, Teaching and Academic Design
During the 2016-2017 academic year, I had the privilege of being a visiting assistant professor at Wheaton College. The Wheaton English department has been home to some of the finest Christian scholars of literature. Men I’ve long respected for their work, like Clyde...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 11, 2017 | Reading Well, The Christian Imagination
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood— Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. In 1922 T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land, a lengthy, complex...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Feb 6, 2017 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
Simeon was born on February 2nd, 2014 and died 40 minutes later. My friends were very excited for his birth—they had both lost a parent earlier in the year and were very much looking forward to something to celebrate. Five days before his birth, they received the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Dec 29, 2016 | Living the Liturgical Year, The Christian Imagination
But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint – No occupation either, but something given And taken, in a lifetime’s death in love, Ardour and selflessness and self-surrender. For most of us, there is...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Dec 26, 2016 | The Christian Imagination
December 26th, what is Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries is known affectionately in America as the “Day After Christmas,” as in “The Day After Christmas Sales.” It is, traditionally, a time to begin shopping for all the things one didn’t receive on December 25th...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 15, 2016 | New Ideas and Research, News, Published Writing, Victorian Studies
The Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 43 has just been released, along with my article on George Eliot’s re-historicizing of Jesus in Adam Bede, titled: “Not an Average Man”: Jesus and the Commonplace Heroic of Adam Bede. I’m grateful for the assistance of the...
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