James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University
Simpson’s research interests include late medieval western European literature, 1150–1550; images and idolatry; and hermeneutics and the history of reading. His most recent books are Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition.
Sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Journal of Religion and Literature, and the Department of English
For any questions, email Susannah Monta at smonta@nd.edu.
This event is the 2010–11 Religion and Literature Lecture.