Jordan Burke (M.A.R. religion and literature) received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina Honors College in art history and English in 2010. He became director of a contemporary art gallery in Washington D.C. upon graduating, and moved to upstate New York a year later to work for Chautauqua Institution’s visual arts program. While at the ISM, Jordan plans to shift his focus from contemporary art to the study of theology in modernist and contemporary American literature and film. He is primarily interested in fiction and poetry from the American South. Jordan hopes to earn his Ph.D. in English literature.