“How Does Religion Fit Into Literary Studies?”
When: Friday, February 28, 12-1pm
Who: Professor Mark Knight
Where: JHB 719
Graduate students and faculty, please join the GEA and Professor Knight for another riotous Brown Bag Lunch:
“In this talk I will consider the challenges of understanding and speaking about religion in literary studies. I’ll do so with brief reference to some of the work I’ve written previously, and more detailed reflections on two current projects: a monograph on Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel that I’ve almost finished writing, and a 40-essay Companion to Religion and Literature that I’m editing for Routledge. Although the current projects are quite different, they both face similar methodological challenges: how might we think about religion’s mediated forms, how does our literary scholarship make room for theological discourse, what traditions are we referring to when we speak about religion, and what are the limits of critical distance when it comes to our reading of belief?”