To crunch on words— Denise Levertov, “A Common Ground"
grown in grit or fine
crumbling earth, sweet
to eat and sweet
to be given, to be eaten
in common, by laborer
and hungry wanderer.
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Christina J. Lambert
Education
Ph.D., Baylor University
M.A., Baylor University
B.A., Hillsdale College
Publications
“The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading ‘Mother’ in E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime.” Modern
Fiction Studies. Forthcoming, Spring 2024.
“A Home for Hannah Crafts: Ecofeminism in The Bondwoman’s Narrative.” Tulsa Studies in
Women’s Literature, vol. 41, 2022, pp. 46-63.
“‘Beside this corrupt and holy stream’: Sacramental Water in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow.”
Christianity and Literature, vol. 70, no. 4, 2021, pp. 439-455.
Memberships
The International T. S. Eliot Society
Christianity and Literature
Weaver Fellow, 2022-2023
Biography
Christina J. Lambert completed her graduate work at Baylor University, where she wrote her master’s thesis on the fiction of Wendell Berry and her dissertation on the intersection of food studies and eucharistic theology in the poetry and drama of T. S. Eliot and Denise Levertov. Attention to the material world—be it a dish of Cherries Jubilee, the river running through Port William, or “East Coker’s” “dripping blood” and “bloody flesh”—informs her research and teaching, as she explores how literature helps us imagine what Denise Levertov describes as an “intricately incarnate” world. She teaches American literature, specializing in poetry and drama.