Amy Hollywood
Assoc. Prof., Religious Studies, Dartmouth C.

Selected Publications:

• Books:
  • Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Chicago: U. Chicago Press, forthcoming 2001)

  • The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (Notre Dame, IN: U. Notre Dame Press, 1995). Winner of the Otto Gründler Prize for best book in Medieval Studies

• Recent and forthcoming articles include:
  • "Saint Bess: Body, Gender, and Belief in Breaking the Waves." Manuscript
  • "Apophasis and Ethics in the Early Derrida." Manuscript
  • "Mysticism and Post-modernity," The Way Supplement—Christianity and the Mystical (forthcoming 2001).
  • "Mysticism, Bodies, and Belief: Or, the Problem of Postmodernism," Spiritus (forthcoming 2001)
  • "The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages: Remarks on Carolyn Dinshaw's Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern," Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming)
  • "Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines," in Queer Theology: New Perspectives on Sex and Gender, ed. Gerard Loughlin (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, forthcoming)
  • "Mysticism, Death, and Desire in the Work of Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément," in Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives, ed. Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady, and Judith Poxon (London: Routledge, forthcoming)
  • "Eckhart's Apophatic Ethics," Eckhart Review (forthcoming)
  • "Georges Bataille and the Scandal of the Real," in Method as Path: Religious Experience and Hermeneutical Discourse, ed. Jeffrey Kripal and Elliot Wolfson (New York: Seven Bridges Press, forthcoming)
  • "Writing as Social Practice in Meister Eckhart," in Mysticism and Social Practice, ed. Janet Ruffing (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, forthcoming, 2001)
  • "Divine Woman/Divine Women: The Return of the Sacred in Bataille, Lacan, and Irigaray," in The Questions of Christian Philosophy, ed. Frank Ambrosio (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), pp. 224-46
  • "Inside Out: Beatrice of Nazareth and her Hagiographer," in Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters, ed. Catherine Mooney (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 78-98
  • "'Beautiful as a Wasp': Angela of Foligno and Georges Bataille," Harvard Theological Review 92 (1999): 219-36
  • "Transcending Bodies: A Review Essay," Religious Studies Review 25 (1999): 13-18
  • "Deconstructing Belief: Irigaray and the Philosophy of Religion," Journal of Religion 78 (1998): 230-45