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Alissa Wilkinson

Alissa Wilkinson is assistant professor of English and humanities at The King’s College in New York City, chief film critic at Christianity Today, and editor of QIdeas.org. Her work on pop culture, politics, art, and religion appears in publications including The Atlantic, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, Marginalia Review of Books, Relief, the Globe & Mail, WORLD, and Paste. In 2008, she founded The Curator and served as editor while on staff with International Arts Movement until 2010.

Alissa holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University, and a B.S. in information technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Alissa and her husband, Tom, a photographer, live in Brooklyn. She reads incessantly, watches whole seasons of TV at one go, strongly appreciates a fine oatmeal stout, and forgets to go running.

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Alissa Wilkinson Oct 14, 2011

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Caveat Lector

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Alissa Wilkinson Apr 21, 2011

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Idols, Icons, and Facebook

Technology shapes us. But how we use technology shapes it, too. We make of our technology an idol or an icon. Our gaze—our intention—helps determine what the technology becomes.

Alissa Wilkinson Dec 1, 2010 Faithful living

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Editorial: Worldviews Go Home

“What we forget,” my professor said, “is that at the end of the day, the philosopher closes his office door and goes home—and just is, despite how he thinks he ought to be. He plays with his kids and eats his dinner and sleeps in his soft bed.”

Alissa Wilkinson Dec 19, 2008

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Eat, cook, blog, book

Super Natural Cooking presents healthful eating, not as a negative stop-gap to avoid disease, but as a toothsome celebration of the age we live in.

Alissa Wilkinson Aug 29, 2008

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Reminders of the quotidian mysteries

When you see her work, it can be difficult to know what exactly you’re looking at. Donovan’s patiently created work deserves an equally patient, detailed look. Its relationship to natural phenomena—coral, bubbles, snowdrifts, hardened volcanic lava—is striking at distance, but as you approach the work, it maintains its artistry even as it reveals its construction.

Alissa Wilkinson Jul 11, 2008

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Slow Down: a case for conscious consumption

In the face of an ailing global food supply, buying locally and consuming consciously allow us to conserve the world’s resources. The “Slow” movements’ emphases on local culture are the result, not of xenophobia, but of a desire born of a cosmopolitan ideal to preserve the rich history, tradition, and diversity inherent in human cultures.

Alissa Wilkinson Apr 11, 2008

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Couture: gateway drug to high art culture?

Fashion democratization has increased understanding of couture as an art, and has broken through the perception of couture as a closet-filling hobby of the very rich. The recent “blog mode: addressing fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute speaks to this simultaneous elevation and democratization of fashion.

Alissa Wilkinson Dec 14, 2007

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Things I love: clothes

I love shopping as much as the next girl, but my clothes and I have a less amicable relationship. I'd like to think it's because I am so consumed by other loftier pursuits. More likely, I'm a bit weird.My wardrobe and I have a rocky history. I went to a private,...