Elizabeth Castelli

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Elizabeth Castelli is an author and Professor of Religion at Barnard College. She specializes in biblical studies, late ancient Christianity, feminist and gender studies in religion along with theory and method in the study of religion, with a particular focus on the after-effects of biblical and early Christian texts, including the citation of the Bible and ancient Christian sources in debates concerning cultural and political expression. [1]

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Castelli is an Editorial Director of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books She is also on the advisory board of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, on the board of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a member of the board of the Center of Constitutional Rights. [1]

Education

Castelli attended Brown University, where she earned an Honors Bachelor in English and American Literature in 1979, and Claremont Graduate School, where she earned her Masters and Doctorate in Religion during 1986 and 1987, respectively. For her Doctorate Castelli focused on Christian origins. [2]

Career

During her early career Castelli worked as an executive director on domestic violence on the Rhode Island Council and a staff coordinator at Brown University from 1979-1981. [2] She then worked as an instructor at Mount St. Mary's College in the spring of 1987 and as an assistant professor at three schools, including College of Wooster, University of California at Berkeley and at Occidental College, all in the department of Religious Studies. [2]

Castelli is a professor in the department of Religion at Bernard College. She began working at the college in 1995 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 2002 and a professor in 2013. [2]

Academic and professional honors

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Publications

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Books, edited collections and screenplays

Special issues of scholarly journals

Special issues of scholarly journals by Elizabeth Castelli
2001"Sexuality in Late Antiquity", guest editor with Daniel Boyarin, Journal of the History of Sexuality 10:3-4 (July/October 2001) University of Texas Press
2004"Reverberations: On Violence", guest editor, Scholar & Feminist Online 2:2 (Winter 2004) Barnard Center for Research on Women
2007"God and Country", guest editor, Differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 18.3 (Fall 2007) Duke University Press
2017"Queer/Religion", guest editor, Scholar & Feminist Online 14.2 (Winter 2017) Barnard Center for Research on Women

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Elizabeth Castelli CV" (PDF). Barnard College. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  3. ↑ Spencer, F. Scott (1993). "Reviewed Work: Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation) by ELIZABETH A. CASTELLI". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 55 (3): 573–574. JSTOR   43721348.
  4. ↑ Aichele, George (1993). "Reviewed Works: Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power by Elizabeth A. Castelli; Let the Reader Understand by Robert M. Fowler". CrossCurrents. 43 (1): 130–133. JSTOR   24459325.
  5. ↑ Mitchell, Margaret M. (1992). "Reviewed Work: Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power by Elizabeth A. Castelli". The Journal of Religion. 72 (4): 581–582. doi:10.1086/488990. JSTOR   1204623.
  6. ↑ Copan, Victor A. (2008-02-01). "Imitation as a Poauline Power Play? A Response to Elizabeth Castelli's Imitating Paul". Saint Paul as Spiritual Director: An Analysis of the Concept of the Imitation of Paul with Implications and Applications to the Practice of Spiritual Direction. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN   9781556356612.
  7. ↑ Farmer, Ronald L. (1996). "The Postmodern Bible". Journal of Biblical Literature. 115 (3): 515–516. doi:10.2307/3266900. ISSN   0021-9231. JSTOR   3266900.
  8. ↑ Newsom, Carol A. (1998). "Reviewed Work: The Postmodern Bible by George Aichele, Fred W. Burnett, Elizabeth A. Castelli, Robert M. Fowler, David Jobling, Stephen D. Moore, Gary A. Phillips, Tina Pippin, Regina M. Schwartz, Wilhelm Wuellner". Religion & Literature. 30 (1): 85–92. JSTOR   40059802.
  9. ↑ Stearns, Gail (2003). "Reviewed Works: Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition by Patricia Ranft; Women in the Church: Moving toward Equality by Lesly F. Massey; Women and World Religions by Lucinda Joy Peach; Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader by Elizabeth A. Castelli, Rosamond C. Rodman". NWSA Journal. 15 (2): 185–191. JSTOR   4316987.
  10. ↑ Lee, Becky R. (2004). "Review: GENDER-CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES". Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 16 (4): 386–397. doi:10.1163/1570068043079019. JSTOR   23551707.
  11. ↑ Troy, Jodok (2007). "Reviewed Work: Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence by Elizabeth A. Castelli, Janet R. Jakobsen". Journal of Peace Research. 44 (1): 123. doi:10.1177/0022343307072428. JSTOR   27640457. S2CID   108931281.
  12. ↑ Duff, Paul B. (2005). "Reviewed Work: Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making by Elizabeth A. Castelli". Church History. 74 (4): 837–838. doi:10.1017/S0009640700100952. JSTOR   27644666.
  13. ↑ Ameling, Walter (2008). "Reviewed Work: Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making by Elizabeth A. Castelli". History of Religions. 47 (4): 347–350. doi:10.1086/589794. JSTOR   10.1086/589794.
  14. ↑ Sessa, Kristina (2004). "Reviewed Work: Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making by Elizabeth A. Castelli". The Catholic Historical Review. 4 (94): 771–773. JSTOR   27745358.
  15. ↑ Shaw, Brent D. (2005). "Reviewed Work: Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. (Gender, Theory, and Religion.) by Elizabeth A. Castelli". The American Historical Review. 110 (3): 847–848. doi:10.1086/ahr.110.3.847a. JSTOR   10.1086/ahr.110.3.847a.
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