Amy Hollywood
Amy Hollywood | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College University of Chicago |
| Employer | Harvard Divinity School |
| Title | Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies |
Amy Hollywood is an American scholar of religion. She is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.
Education
[edit]Hollywood attended Bryn Mawr College, studying religion and graduating with high honors in 1985.[1] She then earned a master's in religious studies (1986) and doctorate in theology (1991) from the University of Chicago.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1997 Hollywood won the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies for her book The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart.[2] The book was based on her doctoral thesis.[3]
Hollywood taught at Syracuse University and Rhodes College, then Dartmouth College until 2003 when she returned to the University of Chicago.[4][1] At Chicago she was Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity in the Divinity School.[3] In 2005, she joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, where she is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies.[5]
Works
[edit]- The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995)[6][7][8][9][10]
- Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002)[11][12][13][14][15][16]
- Acute Melancholia and Other Essays (Columbia University Press, 2016)[17][18][19]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Gianaro, Catherine; Harms, William; Sanders, Seth; Koppes, Steve (September 25, 2003). "University welcomes 10 new faculty members". University of Chicago Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Gründler Book Prize". Western Michigan University. 2014-09-30. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ a b Sanders, Seth (March 18, 2004). "Hollywood studies mysticism through the lens of philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminist theory". The University of Chicago Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Rosenthal, Randy (November 28, 2016). "Exploring the Place of the Mystical". Harvard Divinity School News. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ "Amy Hollywood". hds.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Woods, Richard. "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." Anglican Theological Review 79, no. 4 (1997): 613.
- ^ Erb, Peter (1996-11-01). "Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas; The soul as virgin wife; On evil (3 books)". Consensus. 22 (2). ISSN 2369-2685. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Robertson, Elizabeth (1999). "Review of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart". Speculum. 74 (2): 432–434. doi:10.2307/2887087. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2887087.
- ^ Babinsky, Ellen L. (December 1998). "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. By Amy Hollywood. Studies in Spirituality and Theology 1. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. x 331 pp. $32.95 cloth". Church History. 67 (4): 772–774. doi:10.2307/3169872. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 3169872. S2CID 162256083. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Meconi, David. "The voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg/The soul as virgin wife. Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53, no. 2 (2002): 354.
- ^ McInerney, Maud. "Review of Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History." Archived 2022-08-18 at the Wayback Machine Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 4, no. 2 (2004): 2.
- ^ Pescatori, Rossella (2004). "Sensible Ecstasy. Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood (review)". Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 35 (1): 230–232. doi:10.1353/cjm.2004.0032. ISSN 1557-0290. S2CID 161978596. Archived from the original on 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Best, Victoria (2004). "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood (review)". Modern Language Review. 99 (3): 791. doi:10.2307/3739054. ISSN 2222-4319. JSTOR 3739054. S2CID 258099469.
- ^ Klepper, Deeana (2003). "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History". The Medieval Review. 9. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Chance, Jane (2003). "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of HistoryAmy Hollywood". Speculum. 78 (3): 896–899. doi:10.1017/S0038713400131902. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Kripal, Jeffrey J. (2003-10-01). "Mystical Bodies: Reflections on Amy Hollywood's "Sensible Ecstasy"". The Journal of Religion. 83 (4): 593–598. doi:10.1086/491401. ISSN 0022-4189. S2CID 170306802. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Young, Glenn (2017). "Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion by Amy Hollywood (review)". Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality. 17 (1): 124–126. doi:10.1353/scs.2017.0017. ISSN 1535-3117. S2CID 152074330. Archived from the original on 2018-06-03. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Newman, Barbara (March 2017). "Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. By Amy Hollywood . Gender, Theory, and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii 398 pp. $35.00 paper". Church History. 86 (1): 213–215. doi:10.1017/S0009640717000208. ISSN 0009-6407. S2CID 164736492. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Mian, Ali Altaf (2017). "Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. By Amy Hollywood". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 85 (2): 564–567. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfx003.