Jennifer Geddes, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Research Assistant Professor, Co-Program Director and Permanent Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Editor of The Hedgehog Review Office: B-51 Garrett Hall 434-924-7705 email: jlg2u@virginia.edu UVa instructor ID # 5293 Religion and Literature, particularly 20th century literature and Franz Kafka, Religion and Culture, Evil and Suffering, Hermeneutics, Holocaust Studies, Literary Theory, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Postmodern Thought Education: Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of Virginia (1999) M.A. with distinction, Religious Studies, University of Virginia (1995) B.A., English and French, University of Virginia (1987) Courses: Christianity and Modern Fiction, Evil in Modernity, Representations of Evil and Suffering Spring 2005 RELG 800: Negativity and Imagination Fall 2004 RELG 343: Ethics and Fiction Spring 2004 RELJ 352: Responses to the Holocaust Fall 2003 RELG: 343 Ethics and Fiction Spring 2003 RELJ 352: Responses to the Holocaust Fall 2002 RELG 219:  Religion and Modern Fiction 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 )