The annual Religion and Literature lecture is sponsored this year by The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Departments of Art/Art History/Design, English, Philosophy, Program of Liberal Studies, and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, together with the academic journal Religion & Literature, which also publishes the lecture.

Recent Religion and Literature lectures:

2022-2023: Judith Wolfe: “The Eschatological Imagination in Literature.”
2018-2019: Rowan Williams, “‘Relieved by Prayer’: Power, Shame, and Redemption in Shakespeare’s Drama.”
2015-2016: Shira Wolosky, “The Metaphysics of Language: Levinas on the Names of God.”
2014-2015: Robin Kirkpatrick, “The Pace of Praise: Might Theology Walk Together with Literature?”
2013-2014: Richard Strier, “Mind, Nature, Heterodoxy, and Iconoclasm in The Winter’s Tale.”
2012-2013: Marilynne Robinson, “Oh, the Humanities! Education and Democracy.”
2011-2012: Graham Ward, “Read to Live: Miracle and Language.”
2010-2011: James Simpson, “No Brainer: The Early Modern Tragedy of Torture.”

Professor Hurley will lecture on: “Is Poetry Divinely Inspired?”