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 Aron Dunlap

Aron Dunlap, Assistant Professor

Aron Dunlap joined the Shimer community in the fall of 2011. Previously, he taught in Temple University's Intellectual Heritage Program. His scholarly work is focused on issues in Christian theology and psychoanalysis with frequent diversions into children’s literature and cinema.

He is currently finishing a book entitled Lacan on Religion. He also writes poetry and fairy tales and has performed with many musical groups over the past fifteen years, but now plays mostly with his wife and their friends in Good Dust (www.gooddust.com).
 
EDUCATION

Ph.D., Religion
Temple University, 2008.

B.A., Cultural Poetics
Seattle Pacific University, 1999

B.A., Music, emphasis in violin performance
Seattle Pacific University, 1999


PUBLICATIONS AND COLLOQUIA 

Lacan on Religion, under contract with Equinox Publishing, London, to be published in 2012.

“Grotesque Normals: Cronenberg’s Recent Men and Women.” Co-written with Joshua Delpech-Ramey. In Discourse (to appear in vol. 32.2)

"Modesty in the Christian Tradition.” In Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, edited by Yudit Greenberg. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2007.

“Where the Father was, There Shall I be: Tracing the Short Circuit Between Real and Imaginary in the Harry Potter Saga.” In A Lacan Primer: Lacan through Children's Narrative, Children's Narrative through Lacan, edited by Kelly McGuire. (Collection under submission).

An untitled poem will be appearing in an upcoming issue of the Anglican Theological Review (late 2011).

"A Sophianic Mary and Consequences for Theological Aesthetics and Anthropology.” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University, Philadelphia. Oct. 22-24, 2010.

"Lacan and Theology: Getting Past the Deadlocks of Postmodernism.” AAR National Conference, Montreal. Nov. 7-10, 2009.

"Becoming Freudian Again: Eros and Thanatos After Lacan.” Towards a Philosophy of Life: Reflections on the Concept of Life in Continental Philosophy of Religion. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK. June 26-28, 2009.

"Revolution, Paradox, and the Christian Tradition: A Chestertonian Debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek.” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Niagara Falls, Ontario. Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2008.

"Playing Along with Auden: A Performance of Selected Light Verse.” MLA National Conference, Chicago, IL. December 2007.

"The Logic of Twisting Time: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Time Travel in The Prisoner of Azkaban.” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 2-4, 2007.