Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching

Guest Speakers

Susan Felch and Gary Schmidt

Susan Felch is Professor of English at Calvin College and the Director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship.  With Gary Schmidt she has edited and contributed to the Spiritual Biography of the Seasons series of books (Skylight Paths Press) and The Emmaus Readers (Paraclete Press), the lattera series of essays on contemporary novels. Her academic work focuses on 16th century British literature, and her publications include articles as well as The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock (RETS); Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith (Northwestern University Press), co-edited with Paul J. Contino; Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers (Ashgate); and Elizabeth I and Her Age, a Norton Critical Edition co-edited with Donald Stump (Norton).

Gary Schmidt
Gary Schmidt teaches in the English Department at Calvin College, focusing on courses in medieval literature, children's literature, and writing. He is the author of the Newbery Honor books, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and The Wednesday Wars. He and his wife and their six children live on a nineteenth-century farm in Alto, Michigan, where they seem to spend a lot of time running border collies.

Seminar Information

Seminars & Workshops 2009

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