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Welcome to the website of Revd. Edward J. Ingebretsen, FCC Associate Professor of English, Director of the American Studies Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC!

Brief Biography:
PhD, Duke University; MA and BA, Loyola University. American literature; Robert Frost.
Two books of poetry: Psalms of the Still Country (1982) and To Keep From Singing (1985); "Love's Sentence: Domesticity as Religious Discourse in Robert Frost's Poetry" (1989); "The Priestly Ministry of the Physician" (1982); editorials in America: "Gambling Fever" (1978), "Women at Lambeth" (1978), "A Career Military" (1978); poetry published in various journals and magazines. "'If It Had to Perish Twice': Frost's Aesthetics of Apocalypse," Thought Quarterly, New York; "Love's Sentence: Domesticity as Religious Discourse in Robert Frost's Poetry," Christianity and Literature, Vol. 39, no. 4, Fall 1989; "Richard Tillinghast," Contemporary Southern Poets, Greenwood Press, 1992; "Robert Frost's Ultimates," The Encyclopedia of Ultimate Reality, Spring 1991; "Robert A. Heinlein." Bibliography. (For Bibliographies of American Literature; "A. E. Vogt." Bibliography. (For Bibliographies of American Literature; "Lawrence Thompson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 103: American Literary Biographers, First Series, February 1991. "Batman: Americana with a Twist," Journal of Popular Culture (1992); "Good Gloom: Robert Frost and The Gothic," The Robert Frost Review (1992); "'Into the Boundless': Robert Frost's Ulteriorities and Ultimates," The Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, Vol. 14 2 (September 1992), pp. 126-142; "Robert A. Heinlein," bibliography, Bibliography of American Fiction 1919-1988, Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli & Layman, 1991, pp. 235-237; "A. E. Van Vogt," bibliography, Bibliography of American fiction 1919-1988., Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli & Layman, 1991, pp. 513-515;"'If It Had to Perish Twice': Frost's Aesthetics of Apocalypse." Thought Quarterly, Vol. 66, March 1992. "Writing the Unholy: Lovecraft, Theology, and the 'Perfection of the Horrible'" The Fractal (Spring 1994) pp. 3-14. "Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory in American Fantasy" (Paragon, NY: 1995) Robert Frost: Star in a Stone-Boat (San Francisco, Catholic Scholars Press, 1995).

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