# Amy Hollywood Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies ![Amy Hollywood](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/hds2/files/amy-hollywood-250px.jpg?itok=Z1ym9ZxZ) location\_on Divinity 401 email ## Education - AB, Bryn Mawr College - MA, PhD, University of Chicago ## Profile Amy Hollywood came to HDS in 2005. 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 *Acute Melancholia and Other Essays* (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is also the co-editor, with Patricia Beckman, of *The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism* (2012) and, with Eleanor Craig, Niklaus Largier, and Kris Trujillo, of a special issue of *Representations*, "The Poetics of Prayer and Devotion to Literature" (2021). *Devotion*: T*hree Inquires on Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination,*” co-authored with Constance Furey and Sarah Hammerschlag, will appear in December 2021. She has a number of other projects in the overlapping fields of philosophy of religion, religion and literature, and feminist and gender studies in progress. ## Courses View [HDS courses taught by Amy Hollywood](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH&SearchReqJSON=%7B%22ExcludeBracketed%22:true,%22Exclude300%22:false,%22SaveRecent%22:true,%22Facets%22:%5B%5D,%22PageNumber%22:1,%22SortOrder%22:%5B%22SCORE%22%5D,%22TopN%22:%22%22,%22PageSize%22:%22%22,%22SearchText%22:%22(%20Amy%20Hollywood%20)%20(ACAD_CAREER:%5C%22HDS%5C%22)%22%7D) in the my.harvard Course Search. Also view [FAS courses taught by Amy Hollywood](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH&SearchReqJSON=%7B%22PageNumber%22:1,%22PageSize%22:%22%22,%22SortOrder%22:%5B%22IS_SCL_SUBJ_CAT%22%5D,%22Facets%22:%5B%5D,%22Category%22:%22HU_SCL_SCHEDULED_BRACKETED_COURSES%22,%22SearchPropertiesInResults%22:true,%22FacetsInResults%22:true,%22SaveRecent%22:true,%22TopN%22:%22%22,%22SearchText%22:%22(IS_SCL_DESCR_IS_SCL_DESCRL:%5C%22Amy%20Hollywood%5C%22)%20(ACAD_CAREER:%5C%22FAS%5C%22)%22%7D). (HDS students: for jointly offered and reading and research courses, please enroll in the HDS version of the course.) [All Harvard courses](https://courses.my.harvard.edu) ## Selected publications - "[Rereading Clarissa, March 28, 2021](https://the-rambling.com/2021/06/11/issue11-hollywood/)” (*The Rambling*, 2021) - "[William James, Phenomenology, and the Embodiment of Religious Experience](https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/10/09/william-james-phenomenology-and-the-embodiment-of-religious-experience/)” (*The Immanent Frame,* October 2020) - “[Memento Mori](https://tif.ssrc.org/2017/10/18/memento-mori/)” (*The Immanent Frame,* October 2017) - [*Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion*](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/acute-melancholia-and-other-essays/9780231156448) (Columbia University Press, 2016) - [*Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History*](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3621288.html) (University of Chicago Press, 2002) - [*The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart*](http://undpress.nd.edu/9780268017699/the-soul-as-virgin-wife/) (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) ## See also - ["Enthusiasm and Critique": School of Criticism and Theory Lecture](http://www.cornell.edu/video/enthusiasm-and-critique) - [Review of Susan Howe's "That This," *Harvard Divinity Bulletin*](https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/thin-wings/) - ['Spiritual but Not Religious,' *Harvard Divinity Bulletin*](https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/spiritual-but-not-religious/) ## Support To reach Harvard Divinity School's faculty coordinators, email [div-faculty\_coordinators@calists.harvard.edu](mailto:div-faculty_coordinators@calists.harvard.edu). For media inquiries or requests, please [contact Tyler Sprouse](mailto:tsprouse@hds.harvard.edu) in the Office of Communications. - ## Affiliation [Faculty](/affiliation/faculty) - ## Alpha Grouping [F-J](/alpha-grouping/f-j) - ## Faculty Type [Faculty of Divinity](/faculty-type/faculty-divinity) - ## Media Expertise [Feminism and Feminist Theology](/media-expertise/feminism-and-feminist-theology) [Gender and Sexuality](/media-expertise/gender-and-sexuality) [Medieval Studies](/media-expertise/medieval-studies) [Women and Religion](/media-expertise/women-and-religion)