University of Kansas

A lecture by Prof. Kevin Hart (Duke Divinity School)

Thursday, November 14

6:15 PM

Centennial Room of the Kansas Memorial Union

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the Duke Divinity School. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of English. His most recent scholarly books include his Gilson Lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, L'image vulnérable: Sur l'image de Dieu chez S. Augustin (Presses Universitaires de France, 2021), Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2023), Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (Chicago UP, 2023), which consists of his Gifford Lectures given at Glasgow University, Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul (Columbia UP, 2024), and his edition, The Bible and Western Christian Literature, vol. 5 (T. and T. Clark, 2024). His poetry is partly collected in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood appeared with Paul Dry Books in 2024.