by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 18, 2024 | Academic Conferences, News
As Department Chair, I am delighted to announce that in the fall of 2024, George Fox University’s Department of Language, Literature, and Communication will launch the inaugural Eclectic Texts Conference (ETC), a two-day event aimed at combining popular cultural texts...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 5, 2018 | Academic Conferences, News
Join us @ Holy Cross College for a Conversation about: Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God This term I’m teaching a class on the literature of discovery and invention, essentially a Sci-Fi class. While developing the course, I teamed up with my...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 22, 2018 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News
Last weekend I escaped the very brown and cold upper-Midwest for Oregon, where I presented a paper on Tim Winton’s Dirt Music at the Western Region’s Conference on Christianity and Literature. The conference focused on the sacred/secular divide as represented in...
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 | Apr 21, 2015 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News
At the end of March I co-chaired “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity,” with Meagan Simpson. This Nanovic Institute-sponsored symposium brought scholars of the 18th- and 19th Britain century together to discuss the significance of religion to this period of...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 18, 2014 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News, Victorian Studies
The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)’s annual conference was held in London, Ontario over the weekend. The conference brought together scholars from around the world to consider the ideas of class and classification in the Victorian period,...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 27, 2014 | Academic Conferences, News
Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA hosted this year’s Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature. As a Westmont alumnae and general fan of beautiful beaches, Spanish architecture, and sunshine, I knew that this would be a great conference to present...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 22, 2014 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News, Victorian Studies
The University of Notre Dame is a great place to be when working on anything related to Religion and Literature. This week, I participated in the ongoing Mellon/ISLA Conversion and Literature Workshop series, presenting my work on the narrative shape of conversion in...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 8, 2013 | Academic Conferences, News
This next week I will be presenting a paper on Dickens’s The Life of Our Lord at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association’s annual conference. The end goal of research is, ultimately, sharing what you’ve learned with others, be that through publication, a conference...
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