The Holy Fire of Art

Executive Director of the Clemente Course, Director of the Parsonage Gallery, Maine, Professor of Religion & Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts 2019-2023 & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC. He is Visiting Professor at King's College London, where he was Senior Lecturer of Sacred Traditions and the Arts. Rosen began his career teaching at Yale, Oxford, and Columbia Universities, after receiving his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
His novel Raising Sparks (2018) was shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and focused on the ways faith can create connections between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the contemporary Middle East. The Irish Times described it as "like Marquez in Jaffa". Raising Sparks is on university curricula in both the US and Europe. He has a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University, an MA in Indian and African Literature from SOAS and a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University Born in Jersey. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, winning prestigious literary prizes like the Somerset Maugham Award for By the Fisheries 1984, and was on his coming to live in London in the 1980s patronised by the artist Francis Bacon. Jeremy Reed's readings of his work with the Ginger Light are unrivalled in intensity. In recent years he has published Saint Billie (Enitharmon) a book-length poem on Billie Holiday, Orange Sunshine an epic poem on 1960s pop culture, Duck and Sally Inside and This is How You Disappear (both Enitharmon) a book of elegies for dead and missing friends After completing her studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art with a PhD on German Expressionism, Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt began her career as a Lecturer in twentieth-century Art at University College, London University. On moving to Paris in 1989 she worked as Editor-in-Chief of Art International Magazine. Since 1995 she has had a successful career as an independent art historian, curating a number of prestigious exhibitions for leading international museums including Neue Galerie New York, Tate, Royal Academy London, National Gallery Washington, Neuenationalgalerie Berlin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Beyeler Foundation, Riehen and Museum Barberini, Potsdam. Alongside her expertise on Expressionism, she is known for her writings on women artists such as a monograph of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky American-Israeli painter and maker of books. She has exhibited her work in the US and Israel. Since 1998, Margolis has been the Art Editor of Nashim: The Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, published by Indiana University Press. She was co-curator for the Jerusalem Biennale, presenting the Women of the Book exhibition in which women artists offered their own interpretations of the weekly divisions of the bible. MFA from University of Southern California, 1986, BA from ,Lone Mountain College SF, CA 1977, Two years study at Cooper Union, NY, 1962-64, Additional studies Columbia University, NY