Regina M. Schwartz

She edited the collection The Book and the Text, The Bible and Literary Theory (Blackwell) and co-edited The Postmodern Bible (Yale) which helped to broaden approaches to the Bible toward interdisciplinarity, and she edited a volume, Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature and Theology Approach the Beyond (Routledge), on the place of transcendence in philosophy from Kant to Levinas, in literature, including Shakespeare and Kafka, and in theology, ranging from negative theology to sacramentalism. With Valeria Finucci, she edited Desire in the Renaissance (Princeton), essays that focus on the inner life in English and Italian literature. Her forthcoming book, When God Left the World: Sacramentality at the Dawn of Secularism (Stanford University Press, 2006) explores the ways a sacramental vision and its understanding of justice infuses the poetry, drama, and the wider culture of Reformation. Recent essays include “Justice and Law in the Merchant of Venice,” Triquarterly, Spring, “Grave Images” in The Place of Theology in the Liberal State and Globalized World and “Revelation and Revolution” in Theology and the Political. Her current work is Equity, Mercy, and Charity in Shakespeare. She is a past President of the Milton Society of America, co-Director of the Newberry Milton Seminar and the Director of the Northwestern University Justice Institute.