Education
Ph.D. in English, Emory University
M.A. in English, Emory University
A.B. in English, magna cum laude, Princeton University
About Christina Bieber Lake
I'm primarily interested in contemporary American literature, African American literature, and southern literature. But lately I've been investigating fiction's response to posthumanism, specifically in the area of biotechnology. So I spend a lot of time thinking about cyborgs, cylons, terminators, and the like. For more information on what I'm reading, visit my blog. When I'm not working, I'm watching Chicago Bears football.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 343 - American Literature: Modernism and Beyond
- ENGL 348 - Selected Authors: Toni Morrison
- ENGL 348 - Selected Authors: Flannery O'Connor/Walker Percy
- ENGL 349 - African American Literature
- ENGL 434 - Modern Literary Theory
- ENGL 494 - Senior Seminar
Membership in Professional Societies
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
- Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL)
- Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD)
Publications
Books
The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor. Macon: Mercer UP, 2005
Articles
"A Vision and A Voice: Women Who Wrote the South." Introduction, with Kibibi Mack-Shelton, to Volume II: Ghosts and Memories: White and Black Southern Women's Lives and Writings. Foreword by Mark Bauerlein, ed. Christina Bieber lake and Kibibi Mack-Shelton. University of South Carolina Press, History and women, Culture and Faith: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 2011.
"Technology, Contingency, and Grace: Raymond Carver's 'A Small, Good Thing." Christianity and Literature 60.2 (Fall 2010)
"Flannery O'Connor's Beatific Vision." Christianity and Literature 60.1 (summer 2010): 3-8.
"The Violence of Technique and the Technique of Violence" in Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace, ed. Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2010, pp. 25-39.
"The Knowledge that One Does not Know: Gadamer, Levertov, and the Hermeneutics of the Question"Hermeneutics at the Crossroads, ed. Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K.A. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2006: 82-92
"The Demonic in the Service of the Divine: Toni Morrison's Beloved," South Atlantic Review 69.3-4 (Fall 2004): 51-80
"Living Like a Man" (an essay on the work of Andre Dubus) Books & Culture May/June, 2003: 8-11
"The Prophet as Storyteller" Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics (Winter 2003): 75-81
"Called to the Beautiful: The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor's
The Violent Bear It Away," Xavier Review 18 (1998): 44-62
"The Demonic in Service of the Divine: Toni Morrison's Beloved," South Atlantic Review (forthcoming)
Reviews
Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist by Richard Giannone. American Literature 73.1 (March 2001): 211-212.