Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the Divinity School. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of English. His most recent scholarly books include his Gilson Lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, L'image vulnérable: Sur l'image de Dieu chez S. Augustin (Presses Universitaires de France, 2021), Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2023), Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (Chicago UP, 2023), which consists of his Gifford Lectures given at Glasgow University, Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul (Columbia UP, 2024), and his edition, The Bible and Western Christian Literature, vol. 5 (T. and T. Clark, 2024). His poetry is partly collected in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood appeared with Paul Dry Books in 2024.
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Duke Divinity Announces New Faculty
Kevin Hart will be the Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor and Aaron Griffith will be assistant professor of American church history.