Amy Hollywood
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Education
- AB, Bryn Mawr College
- MA, PhD, University of Chicago
Profile
Amy Hollywood came to HDS in 2005 after teaching at Rhodes College, Dartmouth College, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), which received the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies; Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and, forthcoming from Columbia University Press, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays. She is also the co-editor, with Patricia Beckman, of The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (2012). Professor Hollywood is currently exploring the place of the mystical, often redescribed as enthusiasm, within modern philosopy, theology, and poetry.
Current and Future Courses
- Attention and Engagement in Contemporary American Poetry (Spring 2016)
- History of Christian Thought: The Medieval West (Fall 2014)
- Readings in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Theory (Academic Year 2014)
- Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Fall 2015)
Selected Publications
- Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002) Publisher page
- The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) Publisher page
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