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
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
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
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
^
abcGianaro, 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.
^"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.
^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.
^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.
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
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
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
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
^
abcGianaro, 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.
^"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.
^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.
^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.