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Taylor Swift: The Voice of an Age | Inaugural Eclectic Texts Conference (ETC)
I am delighted to announce that George Fox University will launch the inaugural Eclectic Texts Conference (ETC), a two-day event aimed at combining popular cultural texts with academic research. Our inaugural ETC will consider Taylor Swift as “The Voice of an Age”.
I need your help to get a new book published… #ChristianBookKickstarter
My new book: Fandoms & Faithful Reading, is coming-out via Substack! BUT, I need your help (with a few clicks) to get it published to a wider audience in a traditional book format.
Remembering Dr. J.I. Packer
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...
A big move back to the Pacific Northwest
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...
Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God: A Conversation
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...
Fortune 500 Company adopts my Students’ Writing Project
Earlier this month, Joey the Spotted Turtle was adopted by EmNet! After bringing Joey into the world as a class project, my Environmental Literature...
Mixing Water with Wine—Report on The Conference on Christianity and Literature
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...
Lenten Flooding & Education Outside the Classroom
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...
New English Major for Holy Cross College
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...
Rewriting the Story—Literature and the New Creation (Saints & Scholars Keynote Address)
On July 28th, I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at Saints & Scholars. This Lilly Endowed program brings high school...
A New Start: Holy Cross College
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,...
Now Available! VIJ 43 and My Article on Adam Bede
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,...
A New Role — Visiting Assistant Professor of English
It is with great excitement that I will be taking a position at Wheaton College in the Fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English, where I'll...
Graduate School Commencement from The University of Notre Dame
On Saturday 14 May, some of my close friends and I chose to "walk" in recognition of our graduation from the University of Notre Dame. While the day...
PUBLISHED | “’Not an Average Man’: Eliot’s Commonplace Heroic and the ‘Beautiful Story’ of Jesus in Adam Bede”
VIJ (Victorians Institute Journal) will be publishing my article on Adam Bede in their forthcoming issue (#43)! This article grew out of a chapter...
Dissertation Defended!
On August 25th I successfully defended my dissertation, "The Quest for a Novelistic Jesus: Literary Relationships with Jesus in Victorian Realism."...
In Print — “Perplext in Faith” Is Now Available!
It is an honor to be included in the fabulous collection of essays that Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and Julie Melnyk have put together in “Perplext in...
‘The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity’ Symposium @ Notre Dame
At the end of March I co-chaired “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity,” with Meagan Simpson. This Nanovic Institute-sponsored symposium brought...
Please Join Me for “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity” Symposium, March 26-28, 2015
Since winning a generous grant from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, fellow PhD Candidate Meagan Simpson and I have been working hard to...
Class, Classification, and Jesus | The 2014 NAVSA Conference in London, ON
The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)’s annual conference was held in London, Ontario over the weekend. The conference brought...
FEATURED | “Female Scholars, a new generation answering the call” ~ Regent College Alumni News
I was honored to have my story featured alongside six other female scholars, all Alumnae of Regent College in Vancouver, Canada: Female Scholars | a...
AWARDED | Grant from the Nanovic Institute for Symposium on “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity”
It is now official! Thanks to a generous grant from the Nanovic Institute, the symposium “The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity” will be taking place...
Report on The Conference on Christianity and Literature, hosted by Westmont College
Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA hosted this year’s Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature. As a Westmont alumnae and...
AWARDED | The AAUW (American Association of University Women) Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
Since filling out fellowship applications, gathering up transcripts and following up on letters of recommendation last autumn, I’ve been waiting to...
Kingsley and Narrative Form: The Mellon/ISLA Conversion and Literature Workshop At Notre Dame
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...
An Uncomfortable Jesus | Midwest Victorian Studies Conference
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...