About

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Research Fellow in Art and Religion at The National Gallery, London

Visiting Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London

Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester

Education

(2021-) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

(2018-2021) University of Manchester – PhD, Religions and Theology
Thesis: ‘Reimaging the Magdalene: Liberative Reception Criticism and the Counter- Reformation Magdalene’ – supervised by Prof. Peter Oakes and Dr Holly Morse, and examined by Dr Andy Boakye and Dr Christine Joynes

(2013-2014) Liverpool Hope University – PGCE, Secondary and Religious Education (Distinction)

(2012-2013) King’s College, London – MA, Christianity & the Arts (Distinction)
Dissertation: ‘Whores or Virgins? The feminist implications of the presentation the Virgin and the Magdalene in Christian Art’, supervised by Prof. Ben Quash

(2008-2011) Worcester College, University of Oxford – BA Hons, Theology (2.i) – MA (2017) Dissertation: ‘A Rejection of ‘Shaggy Dog Stories’: The Christianity of W. H. Auden’, supervised by Prof. Susan Gillingham

Publications

‘Asking for it? Lessons from Mary Magdalene in a Culture of Sexual Violence’ in Map or Compass – The Bible on Violence, eds. Helen Paynter and Michael Spalione (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press: 2022)

Review of Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond, edited by Edmondo F. Lupieri. (Review of Biblical Literature) https://www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDetails/13408

Memberships

The Brane Collective
British New Testament Society
European Association for Biblical Studies
European Society of Women in Theology
Society of Biblical Literature
Society for the Study of Theology

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