Theses
THESIS #1
Jeremiah’s Womb & David’s Flesh: The Forgotten Bodies of Biblical Translation
Modern readers need to know that Hebrew biblical literature reflects a distinctive body culture which English translations almost entirely fail to convey.
THESIS #2
Ancient Medical Knowledge and the Textualized Body of Job
The text of Job reflects an ancient therapeutic/apotropaic project drawing on diverse kinds of medical knowledge
THESIS #3
A prism of analyses inspired by Édouard Glissant’s poetics of Relation — I focus on Psalm 23 to trace several contours in “American” poetics, especially to perceive, understand, and critique the cultural politics of white evangelical spirituality.
Dustin Yellin, Psychogeography Studies. Glass, Collage, Acrylic | From left to right: Built to Spill (2019), Study for Theia (2020), Moonshot (2021), Clearing II (2019), and Moon Removed from Stomach to Make a Head (2020).
Gesine Marwedel, Body Painting. Photograph by Andreas Broich.
Crinoid Fossil. Photograph from the British Geological Survey.
Poster illustrated by J. Hirt for the National Park Service, 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection.