Related: The Future of the Humanities Project
Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Campion Hall and Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The Christian Literary Imagination series will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society.
The series features talks by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic discussing authors or works from Shakespeare to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each speaker aims to examine the term "the Christian imagination" through a discussion of a particular writer or an aspect of the term. The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & A chaired by Professor Michael Scott. All events will take place at 11:00 a.m. EST/4:00 p.m. UK.
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Noël Sugimura, Oxford University, "Early Readings of Milton's Eden and the Erotics in Conjugal Chastity"
Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, "Scriptural Influence on Shakespeare"
Frank Ambrosia, Georgetown University, "Dante"
Dr. Graham Ward, Oxford University, "Sigh or Eden”: Henry Vaughan, William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens"
Jane Stevenson, Oxford University, "Radclyffe Hall: Catholicism and Queerness in Interwar England"
Bridget Keegan, Creighton University, "Jane Barker and Elizabeth Inchbald: Overt and Covert Catholicism"
Rev. Joe Simmons, S.J., Campion Hall, "Identifying the Christian Imagination"
Peter Davidson, Campion Hall, Oxford, "Robert Southwell and the Revitalization of English Writing"
Michael Collins, Georgetown University, "The Ignatian Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins"
Molly Clark, Merton College, Oxford, "Christopher Smart's Alphabetical Imagination"
John Drakakis, University of Stirling, "Dramatizing Atheism in Cyril Tourneur's 'The Atheist's Tragedy'”
Clare Broome Saunders, Blackfriars Hall, "Transformative Conversation: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Literary Imagination"
Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, "Consolation for Catholics in Michael Drayton's Early Poems"
Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., Georgetown University, "Flannery O’Connor the Hillbilly Thomist: Charting A Catholic Modernist Aesthetics"
Playwright William Shakespeare alludes to the Bible many times across his work, but how might we appreciate his use of it? It is perhaps surprising that the character who quotes from the Bible most…
In a conversation with Professor Michael Scott, Professor Noël. K. Sugimura will explore early readings of Milton’s depiction of prelapsarian love in Paradise Lost. In particular, she will reflect on…
Flannery O’Connor once claimed that her Roman Catholic faith was an essential component of her vocation as a writer. Immersed in the currents of the Catholic philosophy, theology, and literary…
Critical reception of the early work of Michael Drayton has been generally muted; his first work is usually passed over altogether. In a discussion with Michael Scott, Clare Asquith proposed that his…
Throughout her writing career, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry consistently bears witness to the concepts and practices of her Congregationalist upbringing, despite the divergence of her spiritual…
Little is known about Cyril Tourneur, and his ouevre is slim. For some time, he was thought to be the dramatist who wrote The Revenger's Tragedy, but critical opinion has now assigned it to Thomas…
