Robin Margaret Jensen Vanderbilt University Department of the History
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Robin Margaret Jensen Vanderbilt University Department of the History of Art, Divinity School Nashville, Tennessee [email protected] 615-364-9395 (Mobile Telephone) Teaching 2003-Present: Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (Department of History of Art and Divinity School, joint appointment). 1991-2003: Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts. 1993-2003: Joint Doctoral Faculty, Boston College Theology Faculty Boston College, Newton, Massachusetts. Fall, 2000: Walter and Mary Tuohy Visiting Chair in Interreligious Studies John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. Education Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary PhD, 1991: History of Christianity. MPhil, 1986; MA, 1977. Thesis: "Living Water: Images, Symbols, and Settings of Early Christian Baptism.” Director: Prof. Richard Brilliant, Department of Art History, Columbia University. Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York MDiv program, 1974-76. Parsons School of Design, New York, New York Department of Fine Arts and Illustration, 1975-77. Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota BA, 1973 (magna cum laude). Majors: Visual and Theatre Arts. Grants and Awards (Individual and Collaborative) Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University (2012-3), amount of $30,000 (salary) and $6,720 (fringe benefits). Henry Luce III Fellowship (Theology and the Arts), 2001-2002. Recipient, Lilly Theological Research Grants – Small Grant, 1997 (for research on baptismal architecture in Syria and Eastern Turkey — $4,000). Project director (and principal writer), “North African Christianity in Religious and Cultural Context: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Diverse Forms of Ancient Christianity,” National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Research -- Collaborative Grants, 1996 ($88,000). Younger Scholars’ Award, Association of Theological Schools, Theological Research and Scholarship Award, 1994-1995 ($15,000). American Academy of Religion Individual Grant, 1993 (for research and travel in North Africa -- $3,000). 2 Publications – Monographs, Co-authored, and Edited Books Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianitiy (Baker Academic Press, 2012). Living Water: The Art and Architecture of Ancient Christian Baptism (Brill Publishers, Vigiliae Christianae Supplementary Series, 2011). Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity (Fortress Press, 2005). The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community (Eerdmans Press, 2004). Understanding Early Christian Art (Routledge Press, 2000). Co-editor with Kimberly Vrudny, Visual Theology (Liturgical Press, 2009). In press: Co-author with J. Patout Burns, The Practice of Christianity in Roman Africa (a collaboratively written manuscript, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, under contract with Eerdmans Press, expected publication, Fall, 2012). In progress: Epiphanic Aspects of Early Christian Art: Essays Based on the 2009 Gunning Lectures New College, Edinburgh. In progress: Co-editor and director with Richard Rutherford and William Caraher, Baptisteries of the Early Christian World (a multi-media, international project to catalogue ancient Christian baptisteries). Chapter-length Contributions to Multi-Authored or Major Reference Works “The Emperor as Christ or Christ as Emperor,” Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult, eds., Jeffrey Brodd and Jonathan Reed (SBL Publications, 2011), 153-71. “Nudity in Early Christian Art,” Text, Image, and Christians in a Greco-Roman World, eds., C. Osiek and A. Niang (Wipf and Stock, 2011), 296-319. “Christianity in North Africa,” The Cambridge History of Ancient Religions, eds., Michele Salzman and William Adler (Cambridge University Press, 2011). “Paul in Art,” The Blackwell Companion to Paul, ed., Stephen Westerholm (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 507- 30. “Baptismal Practices at North African Martyrs’ Shrines,” Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism in Early Judaism, Graeco-Roman Religion, and Early Christianity, ed., David Hellholm (Walter deGruyter, 2011), 1673-95. “Jesus in Christian Art,” The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed., Delbert Burkett (Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2011), 477-503. “What the Eucharistic Dove Teaches,” Perspectives on Medieval Art, eds., Ena Giurescu Heller and Patricia Pongracz (Museum of Biblical Art, 2009), 146-56. “Christian Art,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2009). “The Mockery of Christ: Tragedy, Resignation, and Courage in the Life and Work of Artist Eugene Biel- Bienne,” Visual Theology, eds., Robin Jensen and Kimberly Vrudny (Liturgical Press, 2009), 41-51. 2 3 “Patristic Readings of Divine Theophanies: God’s Visibility in the Early Church,” God in Patristic Thought, a Memorial Volume Honoring Lloyd Patterson, ed., Andrew McGowan (Brill, 2008), 271-96. “Baptism ad Sanctos?” If These Stones Could Speak: Essays in Honor of Dennis Edward Groh, eds., George Kalantzis and Thomas Martin (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008), 93-110. “Material Evidence: Visual Culture,” The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, eds., Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David Hunter (Oxford University Press, 2008), 231-68. “The Passion in Early Christian Art,” Perspectives on the Passion, eds., Christine Joynes and Christopher Rowland (Continuum Press, 2008), 53-84. “Mater Ecclesia and Fons Aeterna: The Church and Her Womb in Ancient Christianity,” The Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature, ed., Amy-Jill Levine (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2008), 137-55. “Early Christian Images and Exegesis,” for the exhibition catalogue, Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art,” at the Kimbell Art Museum, October - March 2007 ed., Jeffrey Spier (Yale University Press, 2007), 65-85. “Dining with the Dead,” Commemorating the Dead, Texts and Artifacts in Context, eds., Laurie Brink and Deborah Green (Walter deGruyter Press, 2008), 107-43. “Art – The Textbook of the Illiterate?” The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles, eds., Deborah Haynes and Richard Valantasis (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2006), 294-309. “Toward a Christian Material Culture,” Early Christianity: Origins to Constantine, Vol. 1 of the Cambridge History of Christianity, eds., Frances Young and Margaret Mitchell (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 568-85. “Baptismal Rites and Architecture,” The People’s History of Christianity, Vol. II: Late Ancient Christianity, ed., Virginia Burrus (Fortress Press, 2005), 117-44. “The Portrait of God in Christian Visual Art,” Arts, Theology, and the Church: New Intersections, eds., Kimberly Vrudny and Wilson Yates (Pilgrim Press, 2005), 139-57. “The Fall and Rise of Adam and Eve in Early Christian Art and Literature,” Interpreting Christian Art: Papers from the Pruit Memorial Symposium, eds., Heidi Hornik and Mikael Parsons (Mercer University Press, 2003), 25-52. “Christian Art,” The Early Christian World (vol. 2), ed., Philip Esler (London: Routledge, 2000), 747-772. "The Binding or Sacrifice of Isaac: How Jews and Christians See Differently," Abraham and Family: New Insights into Patriarchal Narratives (Biblical Archaeological Society, 2000), 3-12. “The Dura Europos Synagogue and Christian Baptistery: Early Christian Art and Religious Life in Dura Europos,” Jews, Christians, and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue, ed., Steven Fine (London: Routledge, 1999), 174-89. “Giving Texts Vision and Images Voice: The Promise and Problems of Interdisciplinary Scholarship,” Common Life in the Early Church, ed., Julian Hills (Trinity Press International, 1998), 344-56. Chapter-length Publications in Press or in Process (Under Contract): In press: “The Invisible God of Christianity,” Histories of the Hidden God, ed., April DeConick (Equinox Publishers, anticipated 2012). 3 4 In press: “Visuality,” The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed., Barbette Spaeth (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2012). In press: “Augustine in the Visual Arts 430-1200,” The Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, eds., Karla Pollmann and Willemien Otten (Oxford University Press, anticipated 2011). In press: “Ravenna,” Christianity in Contexts, ed., William Tabbernee (Baker, anticipated, 2011). In process: “The Gospel of John in Early Christian Art,” The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, ed., Stephen Prickett (Edinburgh University Press, anticipated 2012). In process: “Initiation” The Blackwell Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient World, ed., Jörg Ruepke (Wiley-Blackwell, anticipated 2013). In process: “Early Christian Iconography,” The Cambridge History of Late Antique Archaeology, ed., Olof Brandt and Leonard Rutgers (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2013). In process: “Relic Translation and Consecration of Churches in Late Antiquity,” Early Roman Liturgy, ed., Juliette Day (Studia Patristica, anticipated 2011). Articles – Scholarly (Peer Reviewed Journals) In process (complete and accepted for publication): “Material Evidence for Early Christian Baptism: Creating or Solving Problems,” Journal of Early Christian Studies vol. 20.3 (2012), 371-406. “Early Christian Art and Divine Epiphany” The Toronto Journal of Theology (Spring, 2012), 125-44. In process (complete and under contract): “Ancient Baptismal Spaces: Form and Function,” Studia Liturgica (anticipated 2012); also printed as “Antike Räume der Taufe: Form und Funktion,” in Theologie