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College of Arts & Sciences Home English Department Home Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Faculty Sheila Nolan Whalen Reading Series Writing Program Contact Us Saint Louis University Harold K. Bush, Ph.D. Professor bushhk@slu.edu Adorjan 333 314.977.3616 Hal Bush began teaching English at Saint Louis University in 1998. He previously has spent four years teaching in Japan, and has also taught and lived in Holland, Italy, Spain, and Germany, along with Indiana and Michigan. Currently he is completing work on three new book projects: the first in the complete correspondence of 40 years between Mark Twain and his good friend and pastor, Joseph Twichell; the second is an edited collection of essays by top scholars about the spiritualities of the American Renaissance period, in honor of the legacy of David Reynolds; and the third is about the "spiritual but not religious" aspects of American literary culture in a post 9/11 world. His cultural history of parental grief in the lives of key authors in 19th- and 20th-century America, entitled Continuing Bonds with the Dead, will be published in spring of 2016. He is also a regular contributor to Christian Century, Books & Culture, The Cresset, and other popular publications, and is currently chairman of the board for New Covenant Legal Service, a local non-profit offering legal advice for the poor and the displaced. Meanwhile, in his abundant free time, he walks his dogs, plays his guitars, plays chess on-line, watches movies and televised and live sporting events, and daydreams about hiking in Peru, Nepal, Alaska, northern Italy, southeastern France, the High Sierra, Hokkaido, and even the Crescent Hills of western St. Louis County.