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About Religion and Literature

R&L is a scholarly journal providing a forum for discussion of the relations between two crucial human concerns, the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language. We publish articles, review essays, and book reviews three times a year.

R&L began publication in 1984, succeeding NDEJ: A Journal of Religion in Literature (1977-1984).

A program in the study of Religion and Literature is housed in the College of Arts & Letters of the University of Notre Dame. For information about this program, click here.


Past Contributors

R&L has published work by:
  • M. H. Abrams 
  • Paula Gunn Allen 
  • Thomas J.J. Altizer 
  • Felicia Bonaparte
  • Daniel Boyarin 
  • Robert MacAfee Brown 
  • Gerald Bruns
  • Lawrence Buell
  • Michael J. Colacurcio 
  • Donald Davie 
  • Robert Detweiler
  • Denis Donoghue
  • Louis Dupré 
  • Terry Eagleton 
  • Caryl Emerson
  • Maurice Friedman
  • René Girard
  • Stanley Hauerwas 
  • David Jasper 
  • Hugh Kenner 
  • Anthony Low
  • Joseph Mazzeo 
  • Sallie McFague
  • John Milbank
  • Elisa New
  • Walter J. Ong 
  • Alicia Ostriker
  • Barbara Packer
  • Chaim Potok 
  • Regina M. Schwartz
  • Nathan A. Scott 
  • Ralph C. Wood
and many other thinkers concerned with the intersection between language and the ineffable.


Staff of Religion and Literature

Acting Editor:

James Shortall

Associate Editors:

James Dougherty
Roger Lundin
Christian Moevs
Thomas Werge

Managing Editor 2007-2008:

Sean Mannion (email link)

Business Manager:

Kathleen J. Canavan (email link)

Staff Members 2007-2008:

  • Phillip Albonetti
  • Sarah Baechle
  • Matt Brown
  • Julianne Bruneau
  • Karen Clausen
  • James Creech
  • Tommy Davis
  • Joel Dodson
  • Erin Drew
  • James Ford
  • John Joseph Hess
  • Shan Yun Huang
  • Rachel Jurado
  • Tara Makowski
  • Ann Mazur
  • Melissa Mayus
  • Patrick Mello
  • Stephanie Pocock
  • Jared Dean Randall
  • Lauren Rich
  • Amie Schaumberg
  • Misty Schieberle
  • Joseph Teller
  • Belkys Torres
  • Jacqui Weeks
  • Sîan White
  • Corey J. Zwikstra

Advisory Board


Submissions

Please submit three copies of typescripts to the Managing Editor at the address below. Unpublished work will be returned only if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. R&L does not accept electronic submissions. Please submit hard copy only. Manuscripts should be between 4500 and 9000 words.

All critical work submitted should follow the MLA Style Manual for manuscript format. For all other stylistic matters, contributors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (13th ed. revised).

R&L does not accept unsolicited creative works, such as poetry, fiction, or translations. In general, such work will only appear in special issues at the invitation of the guest editor.


Contacting R&L

Mailing Address:

Religion and Literature
1146 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5611
USA

For general inquiries, email randl.1@nd.edu
For editorial inquiries, email randled@nd.edu
Please do NOT send submissions via email. Send only hard copy as directed above.

Business Manager Phone: (574) 631-5725
Managing Editor Phone: (574) 631-0250
Assistant Editor Phone: (574) 631-3544