By Jessica Hooten Wilson In Articles & Essays
Thinking Outside the Box with Andy Crouch
Virtual Book Club | The Brothers Karamazov
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Higher Education Choices for Classically Educated Students
Talks & Lectures
Flannery O'Connor and the Call to Suffering
Let's examine Flannery O'Connor's prayer "It is hard to want to suffer. But I presume grace is necessary for the want." How does Flannery O'Connor demonstrate overcoming mediocre faith? What can we learn from her prayer life? Watch the lecture by Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson…
Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 1, 2021
InterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews
The Great Books | Episode 186: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
John starts with the question: what makes Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky a great book? In this podcast we identify and talk about the big questions Dostoevsky asks in this text; "What does it mean to be a human being?," "Can we make ourselves…
Bishop Barron Presents Jessica Hooten Wilson: Conversations at the Crossroads
Watch Bishop Barron and I discuss caring for the soul through human formation. We discuss topics such as the humanities within education, Flannery O'Connor, Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and numerous other aspects of personal and societal development and integration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAK1oybyJBc Follow Bishop Barron here: Bishop Barron…
An Experiment in Criticism of the Literary Canon
Years ago, in an Austin bookstore, I heard Yann Martel, the author of the Life of Pi, give a talk—he said that he mailed a novel to his Prime Minister every year. Why, we might wonder, do such a ludicrous thing? He probably did so under…
Jessica Hooten WilsonMay 18, 2021
The Mind of a Mother and Maker
As a teenager I began to notice that the great women writers that I loved were not mothers—Flannery O'Connor, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Austen. This was a frightening observation to a young woman who wanted to be both a mother and a writer. Thankfully, I later…
Podcast & Radio Interviews
Meeting 2: The Nature and Significance of Liberal Education
Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson---the Louise Cowan Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Dallas, recipient of the 2019 Hiett Prize for the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and author of numerous books including Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O'Connor and The Brothers Karamazov--joined…
U.S. Fulbright Grantee Experience Interview
https://youtu.be/mKOa1MvO1y8 Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of John Brown University in Arkansas, teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague in summer semester 2014. In this video she explains why she has chosen Prague and how she finds the teaching here. More information…
Jessica Hooten WilsonMarch 12, 2014
Virtual Book Club | The Brothers Karamazov July 23, 2021
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: Book Discussion Webinar November 17, 2020
10 Books You Need to Read Before You Graduate College August 1, 2020
Bodying Forth the Classics: A Manifesto May 25, 2020
What 'The Lord of the Rings' can teach us about U.S. politics, Christianity and power November 12, 2020
Thinking Outside the Box with Andy Crouch January 7, 2022
Higher Education Choices for Classically Educated Students July 1, 2021
Flannery O'Connor and the Call to Suffering July 1, 2021
The Great Books | Episode 186: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky July 1, 2021