Contributors
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Matthew Ashley is an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include political and liberation theology, religion and science, and the history of Christian spirituality, with a focus on Ignatian spirituality.
Ann W. Astell joined the faculty of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in 2007, after serving as Professor of English at Purdue University (1988–2007), where she chaired the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The recipient of an N.E.H. Fellowship and of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Religion, she is the author of six books: The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (1990), Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (1994), Chaucer and the Universe of Learning (1996), Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (1999), Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship (2003), and Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages (2006). She is the editor of seven essay collections: Divine Representations: Postmodernism and Spirituality (1994), Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models (2000), (with Bonnie Wheeler) Joan of Arc and Spirituality (2003), (with Justin Jackson), Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts (2009), (with Sandor Goodhart) Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (2011), (with Dorsey Armstrong and Howell Chickering) Magistra Doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (2013), and Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality (forthcoming 2019). She is Past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (2011–2012) and of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.
Jo-Anne Cappeluti has poems forthcoming in Lindenwood Review and Blue Unicorn. Her short story, "My Father Asleep," appears in Fictive Dream (on August 10, 2018) and has been nominated to be included in Best Small Fictions, 2019. She is as much in love in retirement in pondering the imagination-driven creative process as she was while writing her dissertation, ages ago, earning her PhD in English from the University of California at Riverside. jgcapp@yahoo.com.
Robert Cording has published eight collections of poems, the most recent of which are Walking with Ruskin and Only So Far. A new book, Without My Asking, is due in 2019. He taught for 38 years at Holy Cross College and now serves as a poetry mentor in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. Recent poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, Southern Review, Hudson Review, and the New Ohio Review. robert.cording@charter.net.
Robert Farrell lives and works in the Bronx, New York. His chapbook Meditations on the Body was published by Ghostbird Press in 2017. His poems have appeared in Magma, Posit, The Brooklyn Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. Originally from Houston, Texas, he is a librarian at Lehman College, City University of New York. robert.farrell@lehman.cuny.edu.
Kathleen M. Fisher is Associate Professor of Theology at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. She has published essays on contemplative pedagogy, Henri Nouwen, and Celtic Christianity. Her most recent essay, "Attention is the Beginning of Devotion," Bearings, 2018, is part of a book project on the American poet Mary Oliver and the scholar of Near Eastern cultures and poet Herbert W. Mason.
Susan Forshey, Ph.D. is the assistant professor of Discipleship & Christian Formation at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. A retreat facilitator and spiritual director, her teaching topics include the brain & spiritual formation, liturgical catechesis, and monastic life. She blogs at The Contemplative Cottage.
Jean-Pierre Fortin is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at the Institute of Pastoral Studies of Loyola University Chicago and the author of Grace in Auschwitz: A Holocaust Christology (Fortress Press, 2016). Recent essays include: "Lament of a Wounded Priest: The Spiritual Journey of Job," Religions 9, 12, (2018), "Scriptural Spirituality as Postmodern Theology: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Transformational Interpretation of the Psalms," Theology Today 75, 3, (2018), and "Prayerful Spirituality as Experiential Theology: Teresa of Avila's Mystical Transposition of Augustine's Confessions," Studies in Spirituality 27, (2017). His teaching and research focus on the spiritual formation of the human person in and through the processing of traumatic events and experiences.
Douglas S. Hardy is Professor of...
