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 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 | Jul 19, 2020 | Fostering Faith, News
On a Friday in 2007 I sat beside Jim Packer in a small Chinese Restaurant in Vancouver, Canada. I had no idea what I’d say to someone who, till the moment, had been as real to me as CS Lewis or John Stott. He was a name on the spine of a book. He had shelves to...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 1, 2019 | News
On August 15, I officially started a new tenure-track position as the Director of Liberal Arts and Assistant Professor of English and Theology at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon! In my role as Assistant Professor of English and Theology, I get to teach...
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 | Oct 10, 2018 | College Classes, News, Teaching and Academic Design
Earlier this month, Joey the Spotted Turtle was adopted by EmNet! After bringing Joey into the world as a class project, my Environmental Literature class is very excited to see Joey go to a good home where he’ll be cared for and loved, and see their College project...
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 | Mar 5, 2018 | News, Teaching and Academic Design
On February 19th it started raining…and raining…and raining…and raining. Northern Indiana had over six inches in rain in some places. While that’s a fair bit of rain, the situation was exacerbated by about a two-foot snow pack and frozen ground. With the tremendous...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 18, 2017 | News, Teaching and Academic Design
After a few months of work on the part of myself, Tyler Gardner, Dan Murphy, and Br. George Klawaitter, the proposal for the new English major at Holy Cross College is finally complete and off to committee! The new major offers four tracks, a traditional English...
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...
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