Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Essayists 639 Elisabeth G. Wolfe holds a PhD in English from Baylor University and currently works as a freelance translator and manuscript editor in Llano, Texas. Her research interests include medieval literature and theology, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and religion in popular culture and fandom. Daniel Gates is associate professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. He is the author of articles on Doctor Faustus and on the place of religion in early modern cultural studies. Christopher D. Denny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John'sUniversity in Queens, New York. He is the coeditor, with Jeremy Bonner and Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, of Empowering the People of God: Catholic Action before and after Vatican II (Fordham University Press, 2013), and, with Christopher McMahon, of Finding Salvation in Christ (Pickwick, 2011). His current research projects articulate ways imaginative literature and non-Christian scriptures can shape Christian anthropology. Jane de Gay is Reader in English Literature at Leeds Trinity University, UK, and an Anglican priest. She is the author of Virginia Woolfs Novels and the Literary Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and is currently writing a book on Virginia Woolf and Christian culture. David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where his research is an interdisciplinary attempt to examine the possibilities for theology (mainlybut not exclusivelyChristian) in a contemporary culture. Among his most recent work is The Sacred Community Art, Sacrament, and the People ofGod (Baylor University Press, 2012). Zhange Ni received her PhD in religion and literature from the University of Chicago Divinity School and is currently teaching at the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. 640 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE Poets Ryan Pendell received his MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. His poems have appeared in Saint Katherine Review and Anglican Theological Review. He currently lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Margaret Mackinnon's poems have appeared in Image, Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Shenandoah, and others. Her first book of poetry, The Invented Child, won the 2011 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. She liveswith her husband and daughter in Falls Church, Virginia. Ricardo Pau-Llosa has published six collections of poetry, the last four with Carnegie Mellon University Press. In Fall 2010, his achievement as a poet, art critic, and collector was celebrated with a major exhibition and book-Parallel Currents: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art-at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. Daniel James Sundahl is Professor in American Studies at Hillsdale College where he has taught for thirty years. "Ashes" is his first appearance in Christianity and Literature. ...