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Jennifer L. Geddes Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia P.O. Box 400816, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4816 Phone: (434) 924-3038 / E-mail: [email protected] Employment 2005–present Research Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia 1999–present Editor, The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture 1999–present Faculty and Director of Publications, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia 1999–2005 Research Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia Professional Positions 2011–present Advisory Board Member, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures 2008–present Co-Principal, Brown Residential College, University of Virginia 2002–2007 Co-Chair, Arts, Literature and Religion, American Academy of Religion 2001–present Faculty Member, Jewish Studies Program 2000–2002 Chair, Arts, Literature and Religion, Southeast Committee for the Study of Religion Education 1999 Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of Virginia 1995 M.A. with distinction, Religious Studies, University of Virginia 1987 B.A., English and French, University of Virginia Teaching Competencies Religion and Literature, Holocaust Studies, Evil and Suffering, Hermeneutics, Ethics, Critical Theory, Modern Literature, Modern Jewish Thought, Philosophy of Religion, Christian Thought 1 Fellowships, Grants, and Honors 2010 Page-Barbour Grant, "Reading Hannah Arendt for the 21st Century" Project 2010 Institute for Advanced Studies Grant, "Love and Justice" Lecture Series 2009 Posen Course Development Grant, "On Hannah Arendt" 2006 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2006 Emilia Galla Struppa Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 2005–6 Professors as Writers Grant, Teaching Resource Center 2003 Book Manuscript Workshop Grant, Center on Religion and Democracy 2003 Book Manuscript Workshop Funding Award, University of Virginia 2003 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Virginia 2000 Best New Journal Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals 1997–present Omnicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society 1997–1999 Hannah Arendt Fellowship 1997–1998 DuPont Fellowship 1997 The Order of the Rook Award 1996–present Raven Society (University of Virginia Honor Society) 1995–1996 Governor's Fellowship 1995–1996 Stead Fellowship 1995 Department of Religious Studies Teaching Award, University of Virginia 1995 University Teaching Award Nominee, University of Virginia 1994–1995 Academic Enhancement Program Fellowship 1992–1993 Academic Enhancement Program Fellowship 2 Publications Books The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments, co-editor with John K. Roth and Jules Simon (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). Nominated for the National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction in 2009 Evil after Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, and Ethics, editor (London: Routledge, 2001). Works in Progress Hermeneutical Tyranny: Interpretation, Power, and Violence in Kafka (requested for review by Northwestern University Press) The Rhetorics of Evil (current book project) Reading Hannah Arendt for the 21st Century (edited volume with Daniel Doneson) Book Chapters and Articles "A Mapping of Thinking about Evil," Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought, ed. Nick Adams, George Pattison, and Graham Ward (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). "Introduction," "Introduction to Section One," "Introduction to Section Two," "Introduction to Section Three" (with John K. Roth and Jules Simon), The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) xi–xiii, 3–4, 69–70, 117–118. "Religious Rhetoric in Responses to Atrocity," The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity, ed. Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman (Cambridge University Press, 2009) 21–37. "Black Intellectuals in America: A Conversation with Cornel West," (with Jonathan Judaken), Naming Race, Naming Racisms, ed. Jonathan Judaken (Routledge, 2009) 225–239. "Towards an Ethics of Reading Survivor Testimonies," Special Issue: "Literature and Religion in the Aftermath: Reading (Sacred) Texts in Light of Trauma," Studies in the Literary Imagination 41.2 (Fall 2008): 1–15. "Blueberries, Accordions, and Auschwitz: The Evil of Thoughtlessness," Culture 2.2 (Fall 2008): 2–5. "Attending to Suffering In / At the Wake of Postmodernism," The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism, ed. Neil Brooks and Josh Toth (Rodopi Press, 2007) 65–78. 3 "Religion and the Tragic," Literature and Theology 19.2 (2005): 97–99. "Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust," Hypatia 18.1 (Winter 2003): 104–115. Reprinted in The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) 119–132; and Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil, ed. Robin May Schott (Indiana University Press, 2007) 110–120. "Introduction." Evil After Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, and Ethics (Routledge, 2001). "Evil Lost and Found," The Hedgehog Review 2.2 (Summer 2000): 88–99. "A Fascination for Stories: The Call to Community and Conversion in Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller," Literature and Theology 10.4 (1996): 370–737. "Memory and Mourning" (two parts), Martyrdom and Resistance 23.1 (Nov.–Dec. 1996): 3, 15, and 22.2 (Jan.–Feb. 1995): 3, 15. Reviews Review of Naomi Mandel's Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (forthcoming). Review of Peg Birmingham's Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 24.1 (Winter 2009): 208–211. Review of David Patterson and John K. Roth's, eds., Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust in The Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2006): 272. Review of Andrew W. Hass' Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality in The Journal of Religion 85.2 (April 2005): 358–359. Review essay on Paul S. Fiddes's The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature in Conversations in Religion and Theology 2.2 (November 2004): 185–191. "An Annotated Bibliography on Religion and Globalization," The Hedgehog Review 4.2 (Summer 2002): 116–123. "Research on Evil: An Annotated Bibliography," The Hedgehog Review 2.2 (Summer 2000): 100– 111. 4 Interviews "A Conversation with Artist Karen Parker Lears on 'Swansquarter: The Wound-Dresser's Dreaming,'" The Hedgehog Review 12.2 (Summer 2010): 86–99. "An Interview with Theda Skocpol," The Hedgehog Review (Fall 2008): 54–61. "Black Intellectuals in America: A Conversation with Cornel West" (with Jonathan Judaken), The Hedgehog Review 9.1 (Spring 2007): 81–91. "An Interview with James E. Young," The Hedgehog Review 9.2 (Summer 2007): 68–72. "A Conversation with Arthur Kleinman," The Hedgehog Review 8.3 (Fall 2006): 82–92. "Contemporary Notions of Home: An Interview with Witold Rybczynski," The Hedgehog Review 7.3 (Fall 2005): 56–59. "An Interview with Leo Braudy," The Hedgehog Review 7.1 (Spring 2005): 78–81. "An Interview with Richard Schickel," The Hedgehog Review 7.1 (Spring 2005): 82–87. "A Brief Interview with Kathleen Hall Jamieson," The Hedgehog Review 6.3 (Fall 2004): 77–79. "Peacemaking among the Abrahamic Faiths: An Interview with Peter Ochs," The Hedgehog Review 6.1 (Spring 2004): 90–102. "A Brief Interview with Artist Makoto Fujimura," The Hedgehog Review 6.2 (Summer 2004): 85– 89. "An Interview with Margaret Jane Radin," The Hedgehog Review 5:2 (Summer 2003): 98–102. "The Possibilities of Pragmatism: An Interview with Giles Gunn," The Hedgehog Review 3.3 (Fall 2001): 110–122. "Making the Body Beautiful: An Interview with Sander L. Gilman," The Hedgehog Review 3.2 (Summer 2001): 100–115. "An Interview with Amy Gutmann," The Hedgehog Review 3.1 (Spring 2001): 99–105. "The University in Question: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum," The Hedgehog Review 2.3 (Fall 2000): 120–132. "On Evil, Pain, and Beauty: A Conversation with Elaine Scarry," The Hedgehog Review 2.2 (Summer 2000): 78–87. 5 Edited Journal Issues Literature and Theology (Guest Editor) "Religion and the Tragic," Literature and Theology 19.2 (2005) The Hedgehog Review (Editor) "The Corporate Professor" (Spring 2012) "The Roots of the Arab Spring" (Fall 2011) "Humanism amidst Our Machines" (Summer 2011) "The Shifting Experience of Self" (Spring 2011) "Does Religious Pluralism Require Secularism?" (Fall 2010) "The Phantom Economy" (Summer 2010) "Emotional Control" (Spring 2010) "The Cosmopolitan Predicament" (Fall 2009) "The Moral Life of Corporations" (Summer 2009) "Youth Culture" (Spring 2009) "What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?" (Fall 2008) "Politics and the Media" (Summer 2008) "Imagining the Future" (Spring 2008) "Human Dignity and Justice" (Fall 2007) "The Uses of the Past" (Summer 2007) "Intellectuals and Public Responsibility" (Spring 2007) "Illness and Suffering" (Fall 2006) "After Secularization" (Spring and Summer 2006, Double Issue) "Meditations on Exile and Home" (Fall 2005) "Commitments in a Post-Foundationalist World" (Summer 2005, Special Issue) "Celebrity Culture" (Spring 2005) "Discourse and Democracy" (Fall 2004) "The Fate of the Arts" (Summer 2004) "Religion and Violence" (Spring 2004) "Fear Itself" (Fall 2003) "The Commodification of Everything" (Summer 2003) "America in the World" (Spring 2003) "Technology and the Human Person" (Fall 2002) "Religion and Globalization" (Summer 2002) "Individualism" (Spring 2002) "Pragmatism: What's the Use?" (Fall 2001) "The Body