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Roger Lundin


Blanchard Professor of English
On faculty since 1978

Office: 314 Blanchard Hall
630.752.5785
Roger.Lundin@wheaton.edu


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Education
B.A. - Wheaton
M.T.S. - Gordon-Conwell
M.A., Ph.D. - Connecticut
 
Courses Taught
ENGL 102 - Literature of the Western World
ENGL 341 - American Literature: Beginnings to Romanticism
ENGL 342 - American Literature: Realism to Modernism
ENGL 348 - Selected Authors: Dickinson
ENGL 364 - Modern British Literature
ENGL 371 - Modern European Literature
ENGL 433 - Varied Literary Topics: Dostoevsky
ENGL 434 - Modern Literary Theory
ENGL 494 - Senior Seminar
 
Membership in Professional Societies
{Modern Language Association
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Emily Dickinson Society}
 
Research
My research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, the relationship of Christianity to literature, and modern intellectual history, with a particular interest in philosophy and theology. I am currently directing a multi-year project on American literature and religion, which is sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts and co-sponsored by the Erasmus Institute of the University of Notre Dame
 
Recent Publications and/or Presentations

There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry. I am the editor of this volume, which contains essays by Barbara Packer (UCLA), Michael Colacurcio (UCLA), Roger Lundin, John Gatta (Sewanee: University of the South), Katherine Bassard (Virginia Commonwealth), Harold Bush, Jr. (St. Louis), Mark Walhout (Seattle Pacific), Gail McDonald (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Lawrence Buell (Harvard), and Andrew Delbanco (Columbia). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

Guest Editor, “Special Issue on Religion and American Literature,” Religion and Literature, 38.1(2006). Essays by Elisa New (Harvard), Barbara Packer (UCLA), Denis Donoghue (NYU), Lawrence Buell (Harvard), Stanley Hauerwas (Duke) and Ralph Wood (Baylor), and Katherine Clay Bassard (Virginia Commonwealth).

From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (American Intellectual Culture series). Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief.
Second edition, revised and expanded. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Articles in books and journals
“Within the Sound, Beyond the Fury: Modern Narrative and Christian Understanding.” Sewanee Theological Revie, 49 (2006): 443-64.

“Protestantism.” In American History through Literature, 1820-1870. Edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Scribner's, 2006. 926-31.

“Meeting at the Modern Crossroads: Fiction, History, and Christian Understanding.” In Hermeneutics at the Crossroads. Edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K.A. Smith, and Bruce Benson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 133-49.

“’Believing Again’: Catholic Practice and Protestant Modernity.” In Catholic Universities in the New Europe. Edited by Christopher Garbowski, Piotr Gutowski, and Agnieszka Kijewska. Lublin: Catholic University of Lublin Press, 2005. 333-39.


Recent reviews
Recent book reviews, review essays, and articles have appeared in Books and Culture, The Christian Century, Mars Hill Audio Review, Religion and Literature, The Review of Politics, Christianity Today, Books and Religion, The Reformed Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Christianity and Literature, Christian Scholar's Review, Theological Students' Fellowship, Evangelisches Kirchenlexicon, Twentieth-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, and Encyclopedia of Protestantism.

Recent lectures
Over the past several years I have lectured on a variety of topics (particularly 19th-century American literature and hermeneutics) at Azusa Pacific University, Baylor University, Calvin College, Gordon College, Pepperdine University, Regent College, St. Louis University, the University of British Columbia, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Valparaiso University..