Jennifer L. Geddes

Research Associate Professor

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Phone: 434-924-7705

Address:
PO Box 400816
3 University Circle
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4816

Research Interests

Religion and culture, hermeneutics and ethics, Holocaust studies, critical theory, and literature

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Virginia
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Virginia
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Virginia

Publications, Awards, and Activities

Books

Evil after Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, and Ethics, editor (London: Routledge, 2001).

Articles and Essays

• “Religion and the Tragic,” Literature and Theology 19.2 (2005): 97?9.
• Review article on Paul S. Fiddes’s The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature, Conversations in Religion and Theology 2.2 (November 2004): 185?191.
• “Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust,” Hypatia 18.1 (Winter 2003): 104?115.
• “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?77.
• “Memory and Mourning” (Part II), Martyrdom and Resistance 23.1 (Nov.?Dec. 1996): 3, 15.
• “Memory and Mourning” (Part I), Martyrdom and Resistance 22.2 (Jan.?Feb. 1995): 3, 15.

Book Chapters

• “Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust.” Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil. Ed. Robin May Schott. Indiana University Press, forthcoming in 2006.
• “Introduction.” Evil After Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, and Ethics. Ed. Jennifer L. Geddes. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 1?8.

Invited Lectures and Presentations

• “Fanaticism and the Rhetorics of Evil,” Center on Critical Human Survival Issues, University of Virginia (2005)
• “The Rhetorics of Evil,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (2004)
• “Imagining Hope Beyond Wishful Thinking,” The Carl Howie Center for Science, Art, and Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA (2003)
• “The Literature of Trauma and Suffering,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (2002)
• “Evil, Torture, and Interpretation,” Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University (2001)
• “Why and How I Do Arts, Literature, and Religion,” American Academy of Religion National Conference (1998)
• “Symbolism and Suffering: Thinking About Evil in the Post-Modern Age,” The Post-Modernity Project, University of Virginia (1998)

Honors

• Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Fall 2006)
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Visiting Fellowship (Spring 2006)
• “Seminar for Professors of Theology, Ethics, and Religion” Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum (2003)
• University of Virginia Summer Research Fellowship (2002)
• “Ethics After the Holocaust: Key Issues in Philosophy and Religion” Seminar Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2001)
• Best New Journal Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (2000)

Current Projects

• Hermeneutical Tyranny: Interpretation, Power, and Violence in Kafka (manuscript )
• Salvaging the Fragments: Moral Thinking and Action Post-Holocaust, co-editor with John K. Roth and Julius Simon (manuscript )