Lori Peterson Branch is associate professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Iowa. She has published widely on religion and literature and is currently working on a book project titled Beyond Secularism – Postsecular Reason, a robustly interdisciplinary case for moving the humanities and social sciences beyond modernity’s secular-religious binary. She lives in Iowa City with her husband, her twin daughters, and a golden retriever named Minerva.Read Full Biography