Susan Felch

Recent Publications

Books

The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock . Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 185. Renaissance English Text Society, vol. 21. Tempe , Az : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. Approved Edition Citation from the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. Honorable Mention, The Josephine Roberts Edition Award, The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith . Edited with Paul J. Contino. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2001. Selected as the featured book at the 2002 Bakhtin Forum, American Academy of Religion.

Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season . Edited with Gary Schmidt. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Press, 2002. Paperback, 2003. Starred Review, Publishers Weekly ; selected as one of the best religious books of 2003 by the Massachusetts Bible Society; featured on Public Radio: The Connection and Tapestry .

Christian Scholarship . . . For What? Edited collection. Grand Rapids: Calvin College, 2003.

Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season . Edited with Gary Schmidt. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Press, 2004.

Summer: A Spiritual Biography of the Season . Edited with Gary Schmidt. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Press-- forthcoming.

Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season . Edited with Gary Schmidt. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Press, 2006.

The Self:  Beyond the Postmodern Crisis.  Edited with Paul Vitz. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006.

The Emmaus Readers: Encountering Fiction with Spiritual Eyes. Edited with Gary Schmidt. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press – Forthcoming.

Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers. Burlington, VT: Ashgate – Forthcoming.

Elizabeth I and Her Age, a Norton Critical Edition.  Edited with Donald Stump. New York: W. W. Norton – Forthcoming.

Articles (2000- )

“Chronicling Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers: A Narrative of Devotional Reform,” in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, edited by Michael Denbo.  Tempe, AZ: RETS – Forthcoming.

"Words and Things: The Hope of Perspectival Realism,” in The Faithful Imagination in the Academy, edited by Janel Curry and Ronald Wells. Landham, MD:  Lexington Books – Forthcoming.

“Atonement,” in The Emmaus Readers: Encountering Fiction with Spiritual Eyes, edited by Susan M. Felch and Gary Schmidt. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press – Forthcoming.

“This Heavy Silence,” in The Emmaus Readers: Encountering Fiction with Spiritual Eyes, edited by Susan M. Felch and Gary Schmidt. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press – Forthcoming.

“Reflections on Literary Theory and Criticism” in Christian Thought in the 21st Century: Agenda for the Future, edited by Douglas Shantz.  Calgary: University of Calgary Press – Forthcoming.

Review of Conflicting Allegiances:  The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, edited by Michael L. Budde and John Wright.  The Cresset 70.4 (Easter 2007): 70-71.

“Anne Vaughan Lock” in Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press. Also online at http://www.oxford-britishliterature.com/entry?entry=t198.e0279&srn=1&ssid=447478686#FIRSTHIT

“Doubt and the Hermeneutics of Delight,” in Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community, ed. Douglas V. Henry and Michael Beaty. Grand Rapids:  Baker Academic, 2006.  103-118.

“Dialogism,” in Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture, ed. Kevin J. Vanhoozer, et al.  Grand Rapids:  Baker Academic, 2005. 173-175.

“‘In the Chorus of Others’;  M. M. Bakhtin’s Sense of Tradition,” in The Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance, edited Donald Marshall.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 55-77.

“Doubt and the Hermeneutics of Delight,” The Cresset 68.4 (2005): 12-15.

Review of Centered on the Word:  Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way edited by Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins.  Christianity and Literature 54 (Winter 2005): 289-93.

Faith and Learning Statements. Dean of the Chapel webpage at Calvin College . http://www.calvin.edu/faith/resources/faculty/faith_learning/susan_felch.htm

Review of Five Women of the English Reformation by Paul F. M. Zahl. Sixteenth Century Journal 35 (2004): 237-38.

“Elizabeth Aske Bowes,” in the New Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

“The Development of the English Prayer Book,” in Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Change and Continuity Religious Practice , edited Karin Maag and John D. Witvliet. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 132-161.

Review of The Bible in English: Its History and Influence by David Daniell. The Christian Century 121.7 (April 6, 2004): 51-54.

“What Does it Mean to be Reformed?” 17 March 2004. Dean of the Chapel webpage at Calvin College . http://www.calvin.edu/faith/discipleship/fac_events/2003-2004/ref_id_felch.htm

“'Noble Gentlewomen Famous for Their Learning,'” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 16.2 (Spring 2003): 14-19.

“Strengthening the Walls of Jerusalem.” Metanexus: Views (2002.01.02). http://www.metanexus.net

“Biographies of the Book.” Review essay of Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired , by Benson Bobrick; In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture , by Alister E. McGrath; and A History of the English Bible as Literature , by David Norton. The Christian Century 118.30 (November 7, 2001): 29-31.

“Annie Dillard's Long Wrestle with God.” Review essay of For the Time Being, by Annie Dillard. Perspectives 16.1 (January 2001): 17-20.

“‘Earthen Vessels,'” in My Heart I Offer: Daily Reflections on the Journey of Faith . Grand Rapids : Calvin Alumni Association, 2000. 239.

“The Role of the Vulgate in the Work of Anne Lock,” In The Bible as Book: The Reformation . London : The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 65-88.

Review of The praier and complaynte of the ploweman vnto Christe , edited by Douglas H. Parker. Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (2000): 931-33.

“Anne Vaughan Lock,” In Options for Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers, edited by Susanne Woods and Margaret P. Hannay. New York : Modern Language Association, 2000. 127-34.

“Teaching Non-canonical Poetry to Undergraduates: The Sonnets of Anne Vaughan Lock.” In Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, edited by Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott. New York : Modern Language Association, 2000. 210-15.