Edward J. Ingebretsen Ph.D.

 

Edward J. Ingebretsen - Professional Summary:  

Edward J. Ingebretsen, PhD, is an accomplished scholar who has made many valuable contributions to the study of contemporary American popular culture, literature, and theology. Educated at some of the finest universities in the United States, he earned his PhD in English from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and holds advanced degrees in education, theology, and philosophy. Ordained as a Catholic priest in 1982,  Edward Ingebretsen is currently Professor  of English and American Studies, an interdisciplinary field, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

 

Professor Edward J. Ingebretsen’s doctoral dissertation, "Innocence and Experience: The Spiritual Dimension of Robert Frost's Poetry," combines three of the themes that appear throughout his career: Robert Frost, poetry and spirituality. He continued his exploration of Frost’s life and work in a number of articles for scholarly journals, including "Love's Sentence: Domesticity as Religious Discourse in Robert Frost's Poetry," "‘Into the Boundless’: Robert Frost’s Ulteriorities and Ultimates," and "‘If It Had to Perish Twice’: Robert Frost and the Aesthetics of Apocalypse." In addition, Edward J. Ingebretsen has written a complete study about Frost, Robert Frost's Star in a Stone Boat: A Grammar of Belief, as well as contributing chapters about Frost to other authors’ works.

 

In addition to his scholarly work on Frost, Edward J. Ingebretsen is an accomplished poet, having published two volumes, Psalms of the Still Country and To Keep from Singing, both with a deeply spiritual motif. More of Professor Ingebretsen’s poetry has been published in various journals.

 

As Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Georgetown University, Edward Ingebretsen explores modern cultural issues, teaching about 200 students annually. Among the courses Ingebretsen has taught are “American Gothic: Culture and Religion,” and “My Space: Starbucks, Facebook, Housewives and the Politics of Daily Life.”

 

Some of Edward Ingebretsen’s work delves into the role of fear and terror in daily life, and how religion and other societal institutions tolerate and even sanction them. An early examination of this topic is “Design of Darkness to Appall: Religious Terror in the Poetry of Robert Frost,” published in 1993. Further explorations into the subject are “Making Monsters: Politics of Persuasion,” and “The Monster in the Home: True Crime and the Traffic in Body Parts.” Edward Ingebretsen is also very concerned with the challenges faced by homosexuals and others in their pursuit of spiritual awareness; among his current projects is a book on the issue, tentatively titled Sanctuary as Torture: Ecclesiology and the Diminishment of Human Rights.

 

Edward J. Ingebretsen - Professional Experience:     

Georgetown University

Professor of American Studies

07/1986 – Present

  

Edward J. Ingebretsen - Interests:    

Animal Care, Sports, Cycling, Cultural Studies

 

 

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