Research Areas
English Literature and Creative Writing
Dr Jo Carruthers
Lecturer
County College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YD
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My main areas of interest are in the Bible and literature, Englishness, and literary geographies. My most recent work is on Englishness and simplicity. I am also interested in the workings of ritual and place in religious and national identities (especially in relation to the Jewish festival Purim). Carrying on work already done on the biblical Book of Esther I am also working on a book on female biblical figures in Victorian literature.
PhD Supervision Interests
Englishness, national and diasporic identities; Judaism and Protestantism and literature; the Bible and Literature; place and space; Victorian literature.
In Press
Literature and the Bible: a reader
Carruthers, J. (ed.), Knight, M. (ed.) & Tate, A. (ed.) 18/08/2013 London: Routledge.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2011
Esther and Hitler: A Second Triumphant Purim
Carruthers, J. 1/05/2011 The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible. Oxford: Oxford Handbooks Online
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic
Carruthers, J. 08/2011 London: Continuum. 146 p. (New Directions in Religion and Literature).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2010
Introduction: writing post-secularity
Tate, A., Bradley, A. & Carruthers, J. 2010 Spiritual identities: writing post-secularity. Tate, A. & Carruthers, J. (eds.). Oxford: Peter Lang, p. 1-8 8 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Spiritual identities: literature and the post-secular imagination
Tate, A. (ed.) & Carruthers, J. (ed.) 2010 Oxford: Peter Lang.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2009
Israel Zangwill, Jewish Identity and Visceral Religion
Carruthers, J. 31/07/2009 Religion, Literature and the Imagination: Sacred Worlds. Knight, M. & Lee, L. (eds.). London: Continuum, p. 75-86 12 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2007
Esther Through the Centuries
Carruthers, J. 12/2007 Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 304 p. (Blackwell Bible Commentaries).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
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