Cynthia R. Wallace

Education

Literary Ethics
Judeo-Christian religion, secularization, and post-secular movements in literature
The history of women's writing in English
Contemporary literature

A monograph on redemptive suffering in contemporary literature and theory, tentatively called Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics
A project on the post-secular interrogation of martyrdom in Mary Gordon's novel Pearl
An exploration of ethical, religious, and poetic arguments and echoes among Simoine Weil, Emmanuel Levinas, and Adrienne Rich

"L as Language: Love and Ethics." African American Review (Forthcoming). Print.
"'Writing a book is hard, because you are "giving yourself away":' Dorothy Day and the Literariness of New Monastic Movements." Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Cincinnati, OH, November 2012.
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption." Christianity and Literature 61.3 (2012): 465-83. Print.
"'I Have Felt That Sacred Wax Blister My Hand': Suffering, Gender, Religion, Theory." The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion and Literature. London, England, 14-16 July 2011.
"In the Beginning: Beloved and the Religious Word of Psychoanalysis." Literature and Theology 25.3 (2011): 268-282. Print.
"'I refuse these givens / the splitting / between love and action': Adrienne Rich and Holistic Feminist Literary Ethics." Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL 4-7 November 2010.
"'It must acknowledge the spiritual forces which have made it': Marianne Moore, Religion and the Ethics of Critical Discourse." The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. 18-20 February 2010.