Directors and Faculty
Directors
Lori Branch is associate professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Iowa. Her first book, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth, was named 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
Directors
Mark Knight is Senior Lecturer (i.e., Associate Professor) in the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing at Lancaster University. His books include Chesterton and Evil (2004), Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (with Emma Mason, 2006), An Introduction to Religion and Literature (2009), and Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel (forthcoming 2019).
Visiting Faculty
Charles LaPorte is Associate Professor in English at the University of Washington. He is the author of Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible and several essays on Victorian religion and literature. Currently, he is finishing a new book on Shakespeare’s quasi-religious place in nineteenth-century literary culture.
Visiting Faculty
Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. She is author and editor of several books, including Uses of Literature (2008) and The Limits of Critique (2015). She is currently at work on a monograph titled Hooked: Art and Attachment.