Elaine Lux Professor of English Deputy Chair, Department of English 361 Broadway, Room 612 New York, NY 10013 Elaine.Lux@nyack.edu 646.378.6151 Education

Ph.D. The Union Institute M.A. University of Pennsylvania B.A. Queens College

Areas of Specialization/Expertise Modern British and American Literature Chaucer Writing for Healing Narrative Theory Trauma and Narrative Mythic Patterns in Literature Adult Learning Current Areas of Research Gail Godwin and the Spiritual Journey Trauma and Narrative Narrative Theology

Courses Taught Shakespeare American Romanticism Modern Poetry The Contemporary American Novel World Drama Themes of Faith in Literature The Bible as Literature Literary Criticism Devotional Writing

Writing Spiritual Autobiography Creative Writing Fiction Writing English Grammar and Phonology Writing Theory Oxford Christian Writers College Writing 1 and 2 Global Literature 1 and 2

Membership in Professional Societies Christianity and Literature Phi Beta Kappa

Publications & Presentations Publications

“Holistic Spirituality in Gail Godwin’s Life and Fiction: Father 2011 Melancholy’s Daughter, The Good Husband, and Evensong.” E-rea (Revue Electronique D’Etudes Sur Le Monde Anglophone) 8.2 (2011). Issue: Femmes et Spiritualite. Web. erea.revues.org (a peer-reviewed journal)

“The View from Rensselaerville: Going to the Keep-Mills Residency 2010.” 2010 Co-authored with Robert Altobello, Bob Carey, Nan Travers, Lorraine Landers. In All About Mentoring: A Publication of SUNY Empire State College 38 (Winter 2010): 32-36. Print.

“Images of Salvation and Healing in Shusaku Endo’s Silence and Khaled 2008 Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.” In Making Peace in Our Time. Ed. Joan Hallisey, and Mary-Anne Vetterling. Weston, MA: Regis, 2008. Print. “Narrative Bones: Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter and Hugh Cook’s 2006 The Homecoming Man.” In The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in the Postmodern World. Ed. Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton. Waco, TX: Baylor Press, 2006. 117-132. “Imagining Ethnic Trauma and Healing: Narrative Approaches and 2006 Fictional Techniques.” In Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative 5.2 (Winter 2006):93-103. (a peer reviewed journal) “The Expanding ‘I’ in Absolute Truths.” In Scandalous Truths: Essays by and 2005 about Susan Howatch. Ed. Bruce Johnson and Charles A. Huttar. Cranbury, NJ: Selingsgrove/ Susquehanna UP, 2005. 72-99.

Presentations of Academic Papers at Conferences “Narrative Shaping of Meaning in Gail Godwin’s a Southern Family.” 2012 Narrative Matters 2012, American University of Paris. “Voice of Trauma: Narrative Healing in Jonathan Safran Foer.” 2012 Brooklyn Aesthetics: A One-Day Conference. St. Francis College. “Holistic Spirituality in the Fiction of Gail Godwin: Margaret Gower 2009 Bonner and Magda Danvers.” Colloque International, Aix-en-Provence, Universite de Provence “Christian Testimony through the Second Story Window: C.S. Lewis’s 2008

Till We Have Faces and Shusaku Endo’s Silence.” SW Regional CCL [Conference on Christianity and Literature] [Wingate University]. “Images of Salvation and Healing in Shusaku Endo’s Silence and Khaled 2007 Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.” NE Regional CCL [Regis College]. “Violence and Faith: Uncomfortable Bedfellows in Amos Oz and Flannery 2006 O’Connor: ‘Nomad and Viper’ and The Violent Bear It Away.” NE Regional CCL (St. Francis College).

“Listening for the Sacred in Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and Walker Percy’s 2005 The Thanatos Syndrome.” NE Regional CCL (Caldwell College). “The Reluctant Neighbor and Narratives of Repentance: Jonah, The Elder 2005 Son, Ivan Ilych, and the Reader.” SW Regional CCL (Westmont College). “Imagining Trauma: A Literary Approach to Ethnic and Societal Healing 2004 through Narrative.” Narrative Matters 2004 (Fredericton, Canada). “Catastrophe and The Next Step in the Dance.” Midwest Regional CCL 2003 (Bluffton College). “Bone Myths and Hope in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter.” 2002 NE Regional CCL (St. Francis College). “Wit: Truth and the Christian Imagination.” Midwest Regional CCL 2002 (University of Dayton).

“Narrative Bones: From Haunting to Healing in Amy Tan’s The 2002 Bonesetter’s Daughter and Hugh Cook’s The Homecoming Man.” Western Regional CCL (Azusa Pacific University). “In the Interstices of Faith: Interplay between Fiction and Biblical Texts.” 2000 The Open Book and Scholarship Conference Program (Redeemer University College - Ancaster, ON Canada). “A Time for Healing: Healing Connection in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” 1999 NE Regional CCL (Nyack College). “The Elusive Presence of God in the Family Photo Collection in Lisa 1999 Alther’s Kinflicks.” Midwest Regional CCL (Campbellsville University). “Interminglings of the Sacred and the Secular in C.S. Lewis’s Till We 1997 Have Faces.” NE Regional CCL (St. Francis College). “Life After the Fall.” Also, selected to read my original poetry in second 1997 conference session. SW Regional CCL (Harding University). Academic Panels and Workshops “Women’s Spiritual Journeys: Colleen Carpenter Cullinan, Susan 2010 Glaspell, Sue Monk Kidd, and Gail Godwin.” Library Talk. Wilson Library (Nyack College/Manhattan Center). Facilitator: Robert Wagner. “The Elder Son”: Presentation in Faculty Panel Discussion on Henri 2005 Nouwen’s The Return of the Prodigal Son. Wilson Library (Nyack College/ Manhattan Center). Panel Coordinator, Lavonne Mackey.

“Assessment of Student Learning.” Presentation and Workshop. 2004 Co-presenter with featured speaker, Dr.Judith Krom. CAHEA (Philadelphia).

“Covey’s Habits and Synergetic Learning Community.” Collaborative Paper 2002 and Workshop Presentation, with Blondell Anderson and John McGarrity. AHEA/ACE 2002 INTERNATIONAL (Pittsburgh). “Using Writing and Story to Enhance Mutual Care and Courage.” 2001 Presentation and Workshop. Jean Baker Miller Adv. Training Institute (Wellesley College).