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Professor John Netland earned his M.A. from the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in nineteenth-century British literature (both Romantic and Victorian), Dr. Netland is interested in Romantic and Victorian explorations of religious faith as well as in the intersections of Christianity and cultural differences. His teaching interests include Romantic poetry, Victorian poetry and fiction, theological aesthetics, post-colonial literature, and the work of the twentieth-century Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku. Among Dr. Netland’s publications are “Re-writing the Death of Jesus: An Intertextual Reading of Shusaku Endo’s Deep River,” in Christian Scholar’s Review, Fall 2016; “‘The Very Language of Men’: Biblical Echoes in Wordsworth’s Poetry,” KJV400: Legacy & Impact, ed. Ray Van Neste, 2012; “Beauty, Meaning, and Power: Bearing Witness in the Profession of Words” in Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education, ed. David S. Dockery, 2012; “From Cultural Alterity to the Habitations of Grace: The Evolving Moral Topography of Endo’s Mudswamp Trope” Christianity & Literature, Autumn 2009 (Awarded the Lionel Basney Award for best article in Volume 59); “Who Is My Neighbor? Reading World Literature Through the Hermeneutics of Love” in the Journal of Education and Christian Belief, Autumn 2007; “Of Philistines and Puritans: Matthew Arnold’s Construction of Puritanism” in Puritanism and its Discontents (University of Delaware Press, 2003); “From Resistance to Kenosis: Reconciling Cultural Difference in the Fiction of Endō Shūsaku” in a special issue of Christianity & Literature devoted to the author (1999).