David Jasper is Professor in Literature and Theology at University of Glasgow and is the Changyang Chair Professor at Renmin University of China from 2009 – 2012. Professor Jasper's most current work centers around interdisciplinary projects in literature and theology in contemporary culture.
Publications include:
The Sacred Body
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology (with Andrew Hass and Elizabeth Jay)
A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics
The Sacred Desert
Religion and Literature: A Reader (with Robert Detweiler)
The Bible and Literature: A Reader (with Stephen Prickett)
Christopher Merrill is a Professor of English and Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. At the University of Iowa Professor Merrill works on poetry, literary journalism and literary translation in all of which he has received numerous awards.
Publications include:
Poetry:
Brilliant Water
Watch Fire
Nonfiction:
The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer
The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War
The Age of the Refugee
Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars
Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain
Forrest Clingerman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ohio Northern University. Professor Clingerman's scholarly interests include “the issue of place in environmental thought” and the “interconnection of theology, hermeneutics and culture.”
Publications include:
Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics (with Mark H. Dixon)
Thomas Dean earned his PhD at the University of Iowa and currently serves as Special Assistant to the President for Communications and Research at The University of Iowa. His duties include speechwriting, other writing and editing, and research.
Publications include:
Under a Midland Sky
The Grace of Grass and Water: Writing in Honor of Paul Gruchow
Live Well, Live Wild
Rachel Wagner is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. Her interests include Religion and Culture, Religion and Film, Religion and Virtual Reality and Religion and Women.
Publications include:
Halos and Avatars:Playing Games with God (ed. Craig Detweiler)
Second Edition of God in the Details, (ed. Michael Mazur and Kate McCarthy)
Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality (Forthcoming)
Priya Kumar is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, specializing in post-colonial literature and culture in South Asia. Her research interests includes narratives of mass displacement and exile as well as extensive work on the intersections of secularism and Indian independence.
Publications include:
Limiting Secularism: The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film
