Aaron RosenExecutive Director of the Clemente Course, Director of the Parsonage Gallery, Maine, Professor of Religion & Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts 2019-2023 & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC. Heis Visiting Professor at King’s College London, where he was Senior Lecturer of Sacred Traditions and the Arts. Rosen began his career teaching at Yale, Oxford, and Columbia Universities, after receiving his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.  His novel Raising Sparks (2018) was shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and focused on the ways faith can create connections between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the contemporary Middle East. The Irish Times described it as “like Marquez in Jaffa”. Raising Sparks is on university curricula in both the US and Europe. He has a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University, an MA in Indian and African Literature from SOAS and a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University Read More Read Less