Jens Zimmermann, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English, Canada Research Chair in Religion, Interpretation & Culture.

Literary Theory; European Literature in Translation; Dietrich Bonheoffer

Prof. Jens Zimmermann has written recently on Radical Orthodoxy, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidegger and Levinas and theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans Urs von Balthasar. He grounds the department’s theoretical sensitivities in the primary sources of the continental philosophical tradition.  His essay on the future of literary theory won the Lionel Basney Award. His most recent publications are Recovering Theological Hermeneutics: An Incarnational-Trinitarian Theory of Interpretation (Baker Academic 2004) and The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education (Baker Academic 2006).