For this CUI Bono plenary, Professor of English, Dr. Kerri Tom discusses characters from great literature and popular culture and the extent to which they exemplify the virtues, even when we fail to mirror their patterns of virtue perfectly.
Dr. Tom holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts (1994). Her primary interest is the English Renaissance, and she has published articles on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. More recently, she contributed a chapter to The Idea and Practice of a Christian University: A Lutheran Approach, entitled, “Mirror, Imagination, and Creation: A Lutheran Approach to Literature” (CPH, 2015).
Topics Discussed Include:
- Edmund Spencer’s Fairie Queen
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
- Wonder Woman in graphic novels, television and film.
- The Addams Family