Nancy Jay Crumbine

Visiting Associate Professor of English

6 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755

Nancy.J.Crumbine@Dartmouth.edu

The interdisciplinary moment when the individual knows s/he is going to die, the humility therein: in literature, in philosophy, on stage, in the classroom, in public speech and discourse. In search of these moments I write and teach, give lots of keynote addresses, act in small parts of great plays, and raise children and sheep. I try always to encourage students into authentic speech. I like humor and song. I dislike dead metaphors, thoughtlessness, and cheap grace.

Courses

English Department

• Literature and Composition
• Religion and Literature: Revisioning the Invisible

MALS Program

• The Nuclear Arms Race in Cultural Context
• Religion, Gender, and the Contemporary Feminine Voice
• The Institution of Motherhood
• The Mythic Construction of Gender

Women's Studies Program

• Religion and Gender: Experiencing the Divine Differently
• Religious Visions in African American Women's Literature

Selected Publications

• Humility, Anger, and Grace: Meditations on a Life That Matters, (North Bound Books, 2004)
• "Loving the Religious Right Through Its Difficult Times," pp. 9-19, Liberal Religious Education, no. 17, 1997
• "Choosing the Child," Valley News, December, 1996
• "A Community that One Can Call Home," Valley News, September, 1990
• "Christmas," Valley News, December, 1988
• Book Review of Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer, by Noel Perrin, Vermont History, v.51, no.3 (l983), 173-175
• "Ignoring Religion: Feminists on Shallow Ground," Feminist Renaissance, v. 2, no.3 (l983)
• "Religion and the Feminist Critique of Culture," Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. (1983)
• Book Review of Partridge in a Swamp: The Journals of Viola C. White 1918-1941, ed. W. Storrs Lee, Vermont History, v.48, no.4 (January, l981), 248-252
• "On Faith," Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: Critical Appraisals, Ed. R. Perkins, University of Alabama Press, l981, 189-203
• "On Silence," Humanitas, v.XI, no.2 (l975), 147-165
• "A Philosophical Outside on a Theological Inside," Politeia, v.5, no.1 (December, l967)