Amy Hollywood Explained
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Amy Hollywood is an American scholar of religion. She is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.
Education
Hollywood attended Bryn Mawr College, studying religion and graduating with high honors in 1985.[1] She then earned a master's in religious studies (1986) and doctorate in theology (1991) from the University of Chicago.
Career
In 1997 Hollywood won the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies for her book The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart.[2] The book was based on her doctoral thesis.[3]
Hollywood taught at Syracuse University and Rhodes College, then Dartmouth College until 2003 when she returned to the University of Chicago.[4] At Chicago she was Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity in the Divinity School. In 2005, she joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, where she is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies.[5]
Works
- The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995)[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
- Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002)[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
- Acute Melancholia and Other Essays (Columbia University Press, 2016)[17] [18] [19]
Notes and References
- Web site: Gianaro . Catherine . Harms . William . Sanders . Seth . Koppes . Steve . September 25, 2003 . University welcomes 10 new faculty members . 2022-08-19 . University of Chicago Chronicle.
- Web site: 2014-09-30 . Gründler Book Prize . 2022-08-18 . Western Michigan University . en . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818231614/https://wmich.edu/medieval/research/book-prize . live .
- Web site: Sanders . Seth . March 18, 2004 . Hollywood studies mysticism through the lens of philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminist theory . 2022-08-18 . The University of Chicago Chronicle . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818231650/http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040318/hollywood.shtml . live .
- Web site: Rosenthal . Randy . November 28, 2016 . Exploring the Place of the Mystical . 2022-08-18 . Harvard Divinity School News . en . 2022-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819001114/https://news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2016/11/28/exploring-place-mystical . live .
- Web site: Amy Hollywood . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818001426/https://hds.harvard.edu/people/amy-hollywood . 2022-08-18 . 2022-08-18 . hds.harvard.edu . en.
- Woods, Richard. "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." Anglican Theological Review 79, no. 4 (1997): 613.
- Erb . Peter . 1996-11-01 . Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas; The soul as virgin wife; On evil (3 books) . Consensus . 22 . 2 . 2369-2685 . 2022-08-18 . 2020-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200719133458/https://scholars.wlu.ca/consensus/vol22/iss2/15/ . live .
- Robertson . Elizabeth . 1999 . Review of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. . Speculum . 74 . 2 . 432–434 . 10.2307/2887087 . 2887087 . 0038-7134.
- Babinsky . Ellen L. . December 1998 . The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. By Amy Hollywood. Studies in Spirituality and Theology 1. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. x + 331 pp. $32.95 cloth. . Church History . en . 67 . 4 . 772–774 . 10.2307/3169872 . 3169872 . 162256083 . 1755-2613 . 2022-08-18 . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818011813/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/soul-as-virgin-wife-mechthild-of-magdeburg-marguerite-porete-and-meister-eckhart-by-amy-hollywood-studies-in-spirituality-and-theology-1-notre-dame-university-of-notre-dame-press-1995-x-331-pp-3295-cloth/99F269576E7A2DCBE79666695248EE0A . live .
- Meconi, David. "The voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg/The soul as virgin wife. Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53, no. 2 (2002): 354.
- McInerney, Maud. "Review of Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History." Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 4, no. 2 (2004): 2.
- Pescatori . Rossella . 2004 . Sensible Ecstasy. Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood (review) . Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies . 35 . 1 . 230–232 . 10.1353/cjm.2004.0032 . 161978596 . 1557-0290 . 2022-08-18 . 2018-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180602025820/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/540257 . live .
- Best . Victoria . 2004 . Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood (review) . Modern Language Review . 99 . 3 . 791 . 10.2307/3739054 . 3739054 . 258099469 . 2222-4319.
- Klepper . Deeana . 2003 . Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History . The Medieval Review . 9 . 2022-08-18 . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818231615/https://philpapers.org/rec/KLESEM . live .
- Chance . Jane . 2003 . Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of HistoryAmy Hollywood . Speculum . 78 . 3 . 896–899 . 10.1017/S0038713400131902 . 2022-08-18 . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818231651/https://philpapers.org/rec/CHASEM . live .
- Kripal . Jeffrey J. . 2003-10-01 . Mystical Bodies: Reflections on Amy Hollywood's "Sensible Ecstasy" . The Journal of Religion . 83 . 4 . 593–598 . 10.1086/491401 . 170306802 . 0022-4189 . 2022-08-18 . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818231616/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/491401 . live .
- Young . Glenn . 2017 . Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion by Amy Hollywood (review) . Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality . 17 . 1 . 124–126 . 10.1353/scs.2017.0017 . 152074330 . 1535-3117 . 2022-08-18 . 2018-06-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180603092440/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/655759 . live .
- Newman . Barbara . March 2017 . Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. By Amy Hollywood . Gender, Theory, and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 398 pp. $35.00 paper. . Church History . en . 86 . 1 . 213–215 . 10.1017/S0009640717000208 . 164736492 . 0009-6407 . 2022-08-18 . 2022-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818231616/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/acute-melancholia-and-other-essays-mysticism-history-and-the-study-of-religion-by-amy-hollywood-gender-theory-and-religion-new-york-columbia-university-press-2016-xii-398-pp-3500-paper/0E8C0E6C57AED10FAC64E51143BF70FC . live .
- 10.1093/jaarel/lfx003 . Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. By Amy Hollywood . 2017 . Mian . Ali Altaf . Journal of the American Academy of Religion . 85 . 2 . 564–567 .