Faculty member Lisa Siefker Bailey, Ph.D., recently published a peer-reviewed article in the Winter 2010 Christianity and Literature journal. 

The article, “Fraught with Fire: Race and Theology in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead,” explores images of fire in Robinson’s Pulitzer-prize-winning novel and illustrates connections of race to American religious history.

Siefker Bailey examines relationships between theme and metaphor to point toward a larger, almost prophetic, transcendent mode that contributes to the growing scholarly dialogue on the historical, theological, and sociological richness in Robinson’s work.

Christianity and Literature is a scholarly journal devoted to the exploration of how literature engages Christian thought, experience, and practice. The journal presupposes no particular theological orientation but respects an orthodox understanding of Christianity as a historically defined faith. 

Siefker Bailey is an English lecturer for the IUPUC Division of Liberal Arts.