Regina Schwartz
Regina Schwartz is an American scholar of religion and literature. A Professor of English and Religion at Northwestern University, she is known for her work on English Renaissance literature, Biblical exegesis, postmodern theology, and the relationship between religion and violence.
Biography
After undergraduate studies and an M.A. at Indiana University, Schwartz earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. Before coming to Northwestern in 1994, she taught at Duke University and the University of Colorado; she has also taught at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pisa,[1] and Northwestern University's Law School.
Career
In 1989 she won the James Holly Hanford Award from the Milton Society of America for the year's most distinguished book on Milton, for Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost.[2] Her 1998 study of violence and identity in the Hebrew Bible, The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, was lauded as a "stunningly important book" and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.[3][4] In 1999 she spoke at a conference on religion and postmodernism at Villanova University that also featured Jacques Derrida.[5] She has written the libretto for an operatic adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost by composer John Eaton, and a stage adaptation of the text that was performed by the Chicago Shakespeare Project.[6] Her 2008 monograph, Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World, has been called a "tour de force"[7] and "one of the most important studies of our critical moment."[8] In 2014, she was the Respondent to the Tanner Lectures of Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, at Harvard University.[9] Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the University of Virginia's Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture.
Books
- Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World (Stanford University Press, 2008)
- (editor) Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond (Routledge, 2004)
- The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
- The Postmodern Bible (Yale University Press, 1995)
- (co-editor with Valeria Finucci) Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1994)
- (editor) The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory (Basil Blackwell, 1990)
- Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
References
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External links
- Faculty Page at Northwestern's English Department
- Regina Schwartz's CV at Northwestern Scholars
- Regina Schwartz's publications at Northwestern Scholars
- An Interview with Professor Schwartz on monotheism and violence
- Video of Yale Divinity School Convocation address
