**Larry D. Bouchard**

Larry D. Bouchard is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, where he teaches religion and literature, theories of interpretation, religious ethics, and modern theologies of culture. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University (BA, Philosophy, English) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., Religion and Literature). He is the author of *Tragic Method and Tragic Theology: Evil in Contemporary Drama and Religious Thought* (Penn State University Press, 1989) and *Theater and Integrity: Emptying Selves in Drama, Ethics, and Religion* (Northwestern University Press, 2011). He has also published numerous articles and chapters concerning literature and religion, tragedy and theodicy, narrative and ethics, and theology and culture.
