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Professor Regina Schwartz teaches literature, religious studies and law at Northwestern University. She has authored Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics (Cambridge, winner of the James Holly Hanford's Book Award). She co-edited Desire in the Renaissance, on English and Italian literature (Princeton). Her The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, calls attention to the cultural uses of scripture to endorse violence (Chicago, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize). She also edited Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature and Theology Approach the Beyond (Routledge), The Book and the Text, The Bible and Literary Theory (Blackwell) and co-edited The Postmodern Bible (Yale). Her last book, When God Left the World: Sacramentality at the Dawn of Secularism explores the sacramental vision of justice that infuses the poetry, drama, and the wider culture of the English Reformation. |
