Helen K. Gelinas

Certifications:

• Connecticut Teacher Certification in Secondary English, 7–12
• Praxis II English Language, Literature and Composition

Associations: 

• Advisor to Cairn Honors Program
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• American Society of Church History (ASCH)
• Society of Early Americanists (SEA)
• Connotations, A Journal for Critical Debate
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Research Fellowship, Yale Divinity School, Yale University, 2011–2012

Publications:

• 2017 – Volume Advisor for “Cotton Mather 1663-1728,” in Literature Criticism from 1400–1800. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau, Vol. 265, Gale.
• 2017 – “Look Back and Wonder.” The Bulletin of the Congregational Library and Archives.
• 2010 – “Regaining Paradise: Cotton Mather’s ‘Biblia Americana’ and the Daughters of Eve.” Cotton Mather and ‘Biblia Americana’—America’s First Bible Commentary: Essays in Reappraisal. Eds. Reiner Smolinski and Jan Stievermann, Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen.
• 2002 – “The Great Business of Religion: Conversion, Commerce and Ambiguity in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards.” Millennial Thought in America: Historical and Intellectual Contexts 1630-1860. Eds. Bernd Engler and Oliver Scheiding, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier.

Presentations:

• 2013 – Boston, MA. Congregational Library & Archive. Mather Redux: New Perspectives on Cotton Mather. Paper: “Cotton Mather’s Rehabilitation of Eve and Her Daughters.”
• 2011 – Boston, MA. American Society of Church History Winter Meeting. America’s First Bible Commentary: A Roundtable on the Edition of Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana.” Paper: “Regaining Paradise: Cotton Mather’s ‘Biblia Americana’ and the Daughters of Eve.”
• 2008 – Tuebingen, Germany. International Symposium on Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana,” The Early Enlightenment and the Rise of Pietism in America: Historical and Intellectual Contexts in Transatlantic Perspective. Paper: “‘Mother of All Living’: The Interpretation of Eve in Mather’s ‘Biblia Americana.’”

Ministry Involvement:

• Small Group Church Leader
• Sunday School Teacher
• Refugee Outreach
• Music Ministry
• Women’s Ministry