College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3745
Email: egriesinger@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad #3

Emily Griesinger, Ph.D., is a professor of English at Azusa Pacific University, where she teaches courses in British literature, religion and literature, children’s literature, and autobiography and memoir. Her article on Toni Morrison’s Beloved in Christianity and Literature received the 2003 Lionel Basney Award. A second article, “Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: The Charismatic Spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen,” published in Christian Scholar’s Review in 2000 won the Charles J. Miller Christian Scholar’s Award. She has also published in Books and Culture and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She has recently co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World (Baylor U Press, 2006) and is currently working on a book on faith and feminism in Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.

Ph.D. - English, Vanderbilt University, 1989

M.A. - English, Baylor University, 1979

B.A. - English (Spanish minor), Baylor University, 1976

Presentations
"Equal as We Are: Biblical Feminism in Jane Eyre." Western Regional Christianity and Literature Conference. Trinity Western University. May, 2007

Publications
"Rumors of Hope: Thinking Christianly About Literature." Books and Culture. Forthcoming, March/April 2008.

The Gift Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World. Edited collection with Mark Eaton. Baylor University Press, 2006.

"The Shape of Things to Come: Toward an Eschatology of Literature." Christianity and Literature 53ii (Winter 2004): 203-232.

"Why Read Harry Potter?": J.K. Rowling and the Christian Debate." Christian Scholar's Review 32iii (Spring 2003): 297-316.

"Harry Potter and the 'Deeper Magic': Narrating Hope in Children's Literature." Christianity and Literature 51ii (Spring 2002): 455-480.

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Honors, Awards, Recognition
Beverly Hardcastle Stanford Research Fellow, Spring 2009
Azusa Pacific Undergraduate Faculty Research Award, Spring, 2004
Lionel Basney "Best Essay" Award: Christianity and Literature, 2001
Charles J. Miller "Best Essay" Award: Christian Scholar’s Review, 2000
Sigma Tau Delta, Faculty Advisor (1999-2007)

Associations, Boards, Committees
Modern Language Association (1990 to present)
Conference on Christianity and Literature Board (2003 to present)
APU Honors Council and Faculty (2005 to present)
Lily Fellows Program Representative (2007 to present)

Literary representations of religious experience; faith and feminism; literary encounters between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam