Amy Hollywood is the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She has published on medieval Christian mysticism, twentieth-century continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, and modern English-language literature. Her most recent book is Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion and she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled, "Secular Death: Henry James and the Imagination of Mourning."