by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 12, 2023 | Fostering Faith, New Ideas and Research, News, Reading Well, The Bible, The Christian Imagination
I’ve got this exciting book project I’m working on… but to get it published, I need your help! THE BOOK IDEA: Fandoms & Faithful Reading:What Swifties, Jedi, and Wizards Can Teach the Church What if being a Christian looked like being a Swiftie, Jedi, or...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 18, 2023 | Audio, New Ideas and Research, Published Writing, The Bible, Victorian Studies, Video
My first book Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Reimagining Christ looks at how Victorian novelists explored the Incarnation through fiction. In doing so, they shifted the focus from what Jesus did (specifically dying for the sins of the world) to who Jesus was: a...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 25, 2020 | New Ideas and Research, Teaching and Academic Design
Before COVID-19, I started reading about design thinking because Jamie Turner shared an article about design thinking in K-12 classrooms. What I discovered shocked me…it was….EXACTLY WHAT WE DO IN THE LIBERAL ARTS CLASSROOM. Seriously. “Design” as a way of...
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 | 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...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 26, 2016 | New Ideas and Research, News, Published Writing, Victorian Studies
VIJ (Victorians Institute Journal) will be publishing my article on Adam Bede in their forthcoming issue (#43)! This article grew out of a chapter in my dissertation, “The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus,” which looks at the changing characterization of Jesus in the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 6, 2015 | New Ideas and Research, Victorian Studies, Video
In this video I give an overview of my dissertation, The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism. I explain how the stories embedded in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theology lead to portrayals of Jesus and...
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 | Aug 11, 2014 | New Ideas and Research, Victorian Studies, Video
In the first of a series of videos, I introduce my Ph.D. dissertation by addressing three key questions: What did the Victorians think of Jesus? Why does Jesus become so significant in the 19th century? Why examine Jesus in the Victorian novel? I welcome your...
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