Amy Hollywood is the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School and a member of the Committee for the Study of Religion at Harvard University. She is most recently the author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion (Columbia, 2016) and, together with Constance M. Furey and Sarah Hammerschlag, Devotion: Three Inquires on Religion, Literature, and the Political Imagination (Chicago, 2021). She is currently working on a manuscript dealing with life and death, fiction and memory, the true and the real in Henry James and others.