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Religion and Literature uses the tools of poetics and literary theory,
aesthetics, and hermeneutics to study the ways that religions
harness the human imagination, and the ways that human recourse
to imaginative expression often—some would say always—engages
religion. Students who concentrate in the area pursue intensive work in
criticism, usually via study of particular historical periods and genres;
they supplement this work with studies in the history and philosophy
of interpretive theory. Students in the area also complete significant
work in at least one other area of study in the Divinity School, and
are strongly encouraged to develop a curriculum in a department or
division of the University that is relevant to their program.
For more information, visit divinity.uchicago.edu
T H E U N I V E R S IT Y
O F C H I C AG O
D I V I N IT Y S C H O O L
Religion and Literature
FacultySarah Hammerschlag, Assistant Professor
of Religion and Literature
Karin Krause, Assistant Professor of
Byzantine Theology and Visual Culture
Richard A. Rosengarten, Associate
Professor of Religion and Literature (MA,
PhD, University of Chicago)
Associated FacultyRobert Bird, Associate Professor in the
Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures (PhD, Yale University)
Philip Bohlman, Mary Werkman
Distinguished Service Professor of Music
and the Humanities in the College (PhD,
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
Jaś Elsner, Visiting Professor of Art History
and Humfrey Payne Senior Research
Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art,
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (PhD, King’s
College, Cambridge)
Christopher J. Wild, Associate Professor
in the Department of Germanic Studies
and the College; Director of Undergraduate
Studies, Department of Germanic Studies
(PhD, Johns Hopkins University)
For more information, contact
Teresa Hord Owens
Dean of Students
773.702.8217
UChicago Divinity School
DIV 13 637
1025 East 58th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637 T 773.702.8200F 773.702.6048
divinity.uchicago.edu
Recent GraduatesJoel Harter, PhD 2008
“The Word Made Flesh and the Mazy Page: Symbol
And Allegory in Coleridge s Philosophy of Faith”
Lilly Pastoral Resident, Hyde Park Union Church;
Project Director, Urban Dolorosa
Zhange Ni, PhD 2009
“The Pagan Writes Back: Religion and Literature
in Four Contemporary Novels”
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and
Culture, Virginia Tech University
Ed Upton, PhD 2010
“T.S. Eliot’s Skilful Means: Indian Upaya, Ascetic
Cultivation, and the Struggle Against Pessimism
in The Waste Land”
Lecturer in Humanities, Christ College (the
Honors College), Valparaiso University
Graduate WorkshopsThe Council on Advanced Studies (CAS) sponsors
interdisciplinary graduate research workshops
in the humanities, social sciences, and divinity,
designed to bring together faculty and graduate
students from the University of Chicago and the
wider Chicago area to create scholarly dialogue,
to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration,
and to foster the exchange of ideas. Workshops
include Middle East History and Theory, Medieval
Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Religions in
America, Early Christian Studies, Jewish Studies,
and Hebrew Bible. For more information, visit
http://grad.uchicago.edu/academic_resources/
council_on_advanced_studies/. In addition, the
Divinity Students Association offers a range of
workshops and clubs: one for each area and others
according to student interest. Groups include
Buddhist Studies, Feminist Theories and the Study
of Religion, and Pedagogy and Professionalization.
To learn more, visit http://divinity.uchicago.edu/
clubs-and-workshops-0.
Recent Courses This is merely a sample of coursework available
at the Divinity School. Our faculty teach over
100 courses each year in the academic study
of religion. Please visit us online for full lists of
current and past course offerings.
n Jewish Liturgical Poetry (Fishbane)n Levinas and Derrida on Religion and Literature
(Hammerschlag)n Irony (Hammerschlag and Rosengarten)n Comparative Mystical Literature: Islamic,
Jewish, and Christian (Sells)n Styles of Catholicism: Kahlo, O’Connor, Weil
(Rosengarten)n Poetics of Midrash (Fishbane)n Art and Religion in Late Antiquity (Elsner)n The Citation in Jewish Religious Culture
(Fishbane)n Illuminating the Bible in Byzantium (Krause)n Art and Ritual in Byzantium (Krause)n Arabic Sufi Poetry (Sells)n The Narration of America in Literature and Film
(Rosengarten and Howell)
n Interactions Between Jewish Philosophy and
Literature During the Middle Ages (Robinson)n The Other and the ‘Exotic’ in Postwar Jewish
Writing (Hammerschlag)n Autobiography (Wedemeyer and Rosengarten)n Theory of Literature: The Twentieth Century
(Hammerschlag)n Pilgrimmage in Antiquity and the Early
Christendom (Elsner)n Animal Spirituality in the Middle Ages
(Robinson)n History of Criticism: 16th-19th Centuries
(Rosengarten)n Between Vienna and Hamburg: From
Deutschland to America: The Writing of Art
History Between 1900 and 1960 (Elsner)n The Veneration of Icons in Byzantium: History,
Theory, and Practice (Krause)n Byzantine Art: Special Topics in Iconography
(Krause)n Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ (Hammerschlag)
The University of Chicago Library The University of Chicago Library is one of the
largest and richest research collections (both in
print and online formats) in the world. Religious
Studies has been a core component of the
collection since the University’s founding and
its current strengths match the research needs
of the areas of study in the Divinity School. The
Library has a full-time Bibliographer for Religion
and Philosophy who holds workshops specifically
designed for those studying religion.
To learn more about library resources at the
University of Chicago, visit library.uchicago.edu.