Kathryn Ludwig

Kathryn Ludwig

Associate Teaching Professor of English

Curriculum Vitae

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Kathryn Ludwig teaches writing and literature, specializing in contemporary American literature. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of contemporary American literature and religion. Other teaching and research interests include community-engaged writing and spatiality. She is on the Executive Committee for MLA’s Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies 20th- and 21st-Century forum.

Professional Experience

Visiting Instructor and Adjunct Instructor

Indiana Wesleyan University, 2013-2017

Project Excel Instructor

Vincennes University/Blackford High School, 2013/14

Adjunct Instructor

Taylor University, 2012-2014

Editorial Assistant, RELIGION

Elsevier Publications, 2005-2007

Graduate Instructor

Purdue University, 2003–2004

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

PhD in English

Purdue University, 2010

MA in Humanities

University of Chicago, 2001

BA in English and Communications

Purdue University, 1998

Research and Publications

• Review of The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma, by Monica Osborne, Modern Fiction Studies, winter 2020 (66.4).
• “To Dwell in Grace: Physical and Spiritual Situatedness in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila.” Special issue, “Theology of Marilynne Robinson in a Postsecular Age.” Humanities 2019, 8(4), 163. 
  
• “Complicity and Critique.” The Secular and the Literary. Special issue of Christianity and Literature, 67.3 (2018), 511-518.
• “Finding the Prophetic in Failure: A Postsecular Reading of E. L. Doctorow’s City of God,” Religion and the Arts 19 (2015), 230-258.
• “Don DeLillo’s Underworld and the Postsecular in Contemporary Fiction,” Religion and Literature 41.3 (Autumn 2009), 15-24.
• “Postsecularism and a Prophetic Sensibility,” Christianity in Literature 58.2 (Winter 2009): 226-233.
• Ludwig, Kathryn, editor. Facing Recovery. Facing Project Press, 2025. https://facingproject.com/facing-recovery/
• Ludwig, Kathryn, editor. Facing Recovery, vol. 2. Facing Project Press, 2026.