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Shannon Gayk is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She joins Elise to talk about how literary forms reflect larger lived experiences. They discuss the importance of witness, the connection between experiencing art and being moved to action, and the relationship between ethics and aesthetics.

Shannon Gayk is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She joins Elise to talk about how literary forms reflect larger lived experiences. They discuss the importance of witness, the connection between experiencing art and being moved to action, and the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. They wrap up their conversation by exploring structures that can create collective flourishing.

  • How do we get from texts to a transformed life?

  • The relationship between ethics and aesthetics

  • Incarnational literature

  • Imaginative devotional practice

  • Margery Kempe

  • Lollards

  • Sacred performance

  • Apocalypse literature

  • Climate change and medieval environmental writing

  • Collective flourishing

 

Links:
Image Text and Religious Reform in 15th century England by Shannon Gayk
The Highest Poverty Giorgio Agamben

Beatrice Institute is supported in part by Henne Jewelers and The Pittsburgh Foundation.