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John T. Netland

University Professor of English

About

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. Dr. Netland’s articles and reviews have appeared in Christian Scholar’s Review, Christianity & Literature, The Victorian Institute Journal, Nineteenth Century Literature, The Journal of Education and Christian Belief, and Fides et Historia, as well as in several collections of essays.

Education

  • Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles

  • M.A., California State Polytechnic University

  • B.A., Biola University

Scholarship

Articles

  • The Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction: Reformation Themes in 19th Century English Novels (2017)

    Reformation 500: How the Greatest Revival Since Pentecost Continues to Shape the World Today

  • Re-writing the Death of Jesus: An Intertextual Reading of Shusaku Endo’s Deep River (2016)

    Christian Scholar's Review

  • Musings on the Future of Higher Education (2013)

    The Journal of the Union Faculty Forum

  • ‘The Very Language of Men’: Biblical Echoes in Wordsworth’s Poetry (2012)

    KJV400: The Legacy and Impact of the King James Version

  • Beauty, Meaning, and Power: Bearing Witness in the Profession of Words (2012)

    Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education

  • From Cultural Alterity to the Habitations of Grace: The Evolving Moral Topography of Endo’s Mudswamp Trope (Awarded the Lionel Basney Award for best article in Volume 59) (2009)

    Christianity & Literature

  • Who is My Neighbor? Reading World Literature Through the Hermeneutics of Love (2007)

    Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Presentations

  • ‘Intimations of Immortality’: Wordsworth and the Re-enchantment of Nature (2023)

    Western Regional CCL, Azusa Pacific University

  • Shusaku Endo Seminar (2020)

    Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, the University of Pennsylvania

  • The Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction: Reformation Themes in 19th Century English Novels (2017)

    Reformation 500 Conference, Union University

  • The Transformation of Prince Hal into King Henry V (2016)

    The Joseph E. Martin Shakespeare Circle

  • From Tablets to Tablet: How The Technologies Of Writing Affect The Ways We Read (2015)

    Town and Gown Lecture, Union University

  • Responding to Changes in Higher Education (2014)

    Fall Faculty Workshop, Union University

  • Redemption in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2014)

    The Joseph E. Martin Shakespeare Circle

  • Past and Present in Endo’s Silence (2012)

    Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Calvin College

  • ‘The Very Language of Men’: Biblical Echoes in Wordsworth’s Poetry (2011)

    KJV 400: Legacy and Impact, Union University