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Carla Arnell’s new book on the Edwardian Mystical Revival, Divine Representations is due out in February 2026. It can be preordered at  https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Divine-Representations  The chapter on Underhill is adapted from an article published a few years ago on her work in Studies in Medievalism.

Then May the Senses Fall :Evelyn Underhill’s Forgotten Fiction, edited by Bill Gillard, Ph.D. and Robert Stauffer Ph.D, was published in October 2025. A valuable addition to Underhill studies, this book explores some of Evelyn’s lesser known early writings in the genres of fantasy and horror. More information can be found here

New Publication: Bearing the Beams of Love: The Monastic Ideal of Evelyn Underhill , by Robyn Wrigley Carr: Our 2024 Quiet Day leader Robyn Wrigley Carr was the featured speaker at The 2025 James Lloyd Breck Conference on Monasticism Read more

In Memoriam

Dana K. Greene
1942 – 2023

Dana Katherine Greene, President Emerita of the Evelyn Underhill Association, died on December 29, 2023, at her home in Alexandria, Virginia, surrounded by family members.

Born in 1942 in Port Monmouth, New Jersey, to Charles and Dorothea Greene, she had two sisters, Mary and Karen, and a brother, David. She graduated from the College of New Rochelle in New York, where she wrote her senior thesis on Dorothy Day, an early inspiration for her. She then joined the second group of Peace Corps volunteers to go overseas and served for two years in Costa Rica. On her return home, she earned a master’s degree in history at Northern Illinois University and a PhD in humanities at Emory University, where she met her husband, Richard Roesel, at the local Newman House. They were married for 55 … Read more