Regina Schwartz

Regina Schwartz
Professor, English and Religion
http://www.english.northwestern.edu/

Regina Schwartz (Ph.D. Virginia) teaches 17th-century literature, especially Milton; Hebrew Bible; philosophy and literature, and religion and literature. Her publications include Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost (1988), which won the Milton Society prize; The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory (1990); Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (1994); and The Postmodern Bible (1995). Her most recent book, The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, a study of monotheism, national identity, and violence in the Hebrew Bible, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her next project is a book on the Eucharist in Renaissance literature. She has served as President of the Milton Society of America, Chair of the Modern Language Association Religion and Literature Division and Chair of Northwestern's Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative in the Humanities. Her recent speaking engagements include featured speaker at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and international conferences on "Ontology," "The Place of Theology in the Liberal State and Global Setting," and "Derrida and Religion." Her recent essays on post-modern theology appear in Post-secular Philosophy, Questioning God and Transcendence; on Milton and Renaissance literature in The Blackwell Companion to Milton and The Journal of Religion and Literature.
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