Christina J. Lambert

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Christina J. Lambert earned a BA in history from Hillsdale College and an MA in English Literature from Baylor University, where she is currently a doctoral student. Originally from Temecula, California, she made her way to Waco via the Midwest and dealt with the guilt of transience by writing her master’s thesis on the fiction of Wendell Berry. She is currently writing her dissertation on food and sacrament in twentieth-century poetry and verse drama. Though she dwells in the often-disembodied world of academia, her writing and teaching tries to raise questions related to eating, creation, and the body.

Recent Essays

Remembered Relationships: A Review of John Berryman and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Friendship

Christina J. Lambert - January 27, 2021

As the late historian John Lukacs would insist, all stories as we know them and retell them are remembered. This means they are, inherently, personal. John Berryman and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Friendship is no exception.

“Ordered Toward your Becoming”: On Natalie Carnes’s Motherhood: A Confession

Christina J. Lambert - August 12, 2020

In our current moment of social media activism, we must ask ourselves what kind of learning, real learning—the kind that involves your body and takes root in your soul—can take place without embodiment? And what kind of real embodiment takes place without participating in the grief and suffering of another?

Learning about Food and Proper Nouns

Christina J. Lambert - March 13, 2020

Berry moves the conversation from common nouns to proper ones and implicates us all in something deeply practical and doable, yet inexplicably difficult: to love our neighbor, the person right next to us, and the land beneath our very feet.