PhD in English, Emory University
MA in English, Emory University
BA in English, Princeton University
Dr. Christina Bieber Lake is professor of English (emerita) at Wheaton College, where she taught contemporary American literature and literary theory for twenty-five years. She is author most recently of the award-winning Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism, in which she argues that story is inherently theological. A Flannery O’Connor scholar, Lake has published extensively on the incarnational power of fiction to defy gnostic illusions of selfhood. In the award-winning Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood, she argues for the necessity of a robust theological anthropology in an increasingly virtual world. Currently she writes weekly on spiritual transformation through the power of literature at Art & Soul, and other publications such as Comment Magazine. Lake enjoys leading faculty development workshops and retreats. She lives with her husband, son, and two crazy dogs in Denton, TX.
Dr. Bieber Lake is teaching The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor at Nashotah House this academic year.
