RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CHART 2011-12 to 2015-16
Name: Professor Melissa Raphael
PUBLICATIONS DATE/S 'The Creation of Beauty by its Destruction: Idoloclasm in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Art', Approaching Religion, 2016, forthcoming.
‘Trauma, Nostalgia and the Numinous: The Reception of Rudolf Otto's Das Heilige in Modern Jewish Thought’, Equinox, 2016, forthcoming.
‘Feminist Theorizations of Evil’, in the multi-volume History of Evil, ed., Jerome Gellman, Chad Meister, Charles Taliaferro et al., London and New York: Routledge, 2016 forthcoming.
‘Antidotes to Captivation and Spell-Bound Forgetting: The Counter-Idolatrous Figure of the Human in Modern Jewish Theology and Art’, in Claudia Welz ed. Ethics of In- Visibility: Imago Dei, Memory, and Human Dignity in Jewish and Christian Thought, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015, pp. 101-117.
8000 word article on ‘Judaism and Visual Art’ for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, published by Oxford University Press, New York. Online publication, 2015.
‘Divine Glory Danced: Jewish Migration as God's Self-Revelation in and as Art’, in Elaine Padilla and Peter Phan (eds.) Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions (New York, Palgrave McMillan, 2014), pp. 47-62.
‘Judaism’s Critique of Idolatry and the Beginning of Liberative Religion’, in Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis (eds.), Sensible Religion, Ashgate, 2014, pp, 25-39).
‘A Patrimony of Idols: Second-Wave Jewish and Christian Feminist Theology and the Criticism of Religion’, in Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Tradition, 53 (2014) 241-259.
‘Feminism in Judaism’, in Anne Runehov and
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CHART 2011-12 to 2015-16 Luis Oviedo eds., The Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Dordrecht and New York: Axel Springer, 2013) [online].
‘Judaism’s Commandment to Love: ‘A Well- Tempered Banality’ or the Messianic Trumpet’s Blast?, in Bentzion Cohen, (ed.), For a Perennial Spring: Festschrift in honour of Rabbi Dr Norman Lamm, Former President of Yeshiva University, New York, 2013, pp. 361-377.
‘Gender, Idolatry and Numinous Experience: A Feminist Theological Approach to Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy’ in Jörg Lauster, Peter Schüz, Roderich Barth, Roderich and Christian Danz (eds.), Rudolf Otto, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013, pp. 251-262.
‘Idolatry and Fixation: Modern Jewish Thought and the Prophetic Criticism of the Cosmetically and Technologically Perfected Female Face in Contemporary Popular Culture’, in The International Journal of Public Theology, 7 (2013), pp. 135–156.
‘Can Seeing a Jewish Woman's Face be Like Seeing the Face of God?: The Impossibility of the Female Jewish Sublime in 20th Century Jewish Art’, in Julie Clague and Shulamit Reinharz (eds.), Jews, Jewishness and the Arts (Lebanon NH: University Press of New England, 2013), forthcoming.
‘Feminist Theology and the Jewish Tradition’, in Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Sheila Briggs (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 51-72.
‘From the Ruins of History: The Modern Jewish Pariah as an Agent of the Messianic New Beginning’, Trumah: Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, 20 (2011) 31-49.
‘From Historiography to Theography: Reflections on the Role of Theological Aesthetics in The Female Face of God in Auschwitz’ in Holocaust Studies: A Journal
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CHART 2011-12 to 2015-16 of Culture and History 15 (2011), 47-56 (a special issue of the journal presenting articles on my book The Female Face of God in Auschwitz).
MEDIA (BROADCAST OR PRINT) DATE/S
20 July, 2016 (recording date) Four Thought lecture, ‘Are Pornographers Anti-Sex?’, BBC Radio 4, at Somerset House, London.
2015-2016 regular interviewee on Jewish affairs, The Anna King Show, BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
28 March 2012, Interview on the 70th anniversary of the first Jewish transport into Auschwitz, Middle East Report, UCB Ireland, Sky Digital Satellite Radio.
26 March 2012, Women’s Hour. Interview commemorating the first Jewish transport into Auschwitz in 1942. (Repeated on Weekend Woman’s Hour).
CURRENT RESEARCH Curently working on a monograph with the provisional title, Feminism and Idoloclasm: A New Reading of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
APPOINTMENTS DATE/S 2015 – Editor with responsibility for Jewish art and religion, gender and the arts, Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion and the Arts in the West, 1500 to the Present, Oxford University Press, New York, forthcoming..
2013 – Honorary Visiting Professor, University of York St John.
2013 Elected member of The London Society
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CHART 2011-12 to 2015-16 for the Study of Religion.
December 2013 – panel reviewer for Quality Assurance Agency’s Theology and Religious Studies Benchmark Statement.
June 2012 – 2015, research grant assessor for the Targum Shlishi Foundation, Florida, USA.
November 2011 – appointed member of international research project on idolatry and representation in the Dept. of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen
CONFERENCE AND PUBLIC DATE/S Limmud, December 2016, three invited LECTURES lectures, titles TBC.
November 9 2016, University of Oxford, ‘The Hardened Heart: Idolatry as the Occlusion of Love in Jewish Theology’, keynote lecture for conference on ‘Love in Religion’.
May 12, 2016, keynote lecture, 'The Creation of Beauty by its Destruction: Idoloclasm in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Art' University of Turku, Finland.
September 2015, keynote lecture, ‘Thealogy and Idoloclasm: Second Wave Goddess Feminism and the Patriarchal Ideology of Femininity’, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
March 25, 2015, University of Glasgow, ‘Nostalgia, Trauma and the Numinous: Twentieth-Century Jewish Readings of Rudolf Otto's Das Heilige.’
November 6, 2014, University of Wisconsin, ‘The Jewish Reception of Rudolf Otto’s Idea of the Holy’.
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CHART 2011-12 to 2015-16
July 28-30, 2014, University of Oxford, Vacation Term Biblical Studies, three lectures on 'The Second Commandment, Idolatry and Permissible Images in Modern Jewish Art '.
June 24 2014, University of Oxford, Oxford Institute for Modern and Contemporary Judaism, ‘Yitz Greenberg’s Theology of the Holocaust’.
June 3, 2014 Athenaeum, London, London Society for the Study of Religion, ‘How Jewish does Jewish Art Have to be?
April 25, 2015, University of Chichester, ‘Idoloclasm: The Process and Purpose of Second Wave Feminist Theology’.
February 27 2013, University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 'The Form Things Assume when they are Forgotten': Alienation, Advertising and the Criticism of Idols in Jewish Religious Thought', for the international research seminar, 'Orthodoxy, Theological Debate, and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs.'
13 October, 2012, University of Oxford, Faculty of Divinity, keynote lecture, ‘The Jewish Commandment to Love: A ‘Well- Tempered Banality’ or the Messianic Trumpet’s Blast?’, for a two-day symposium on Abrahamic theologies of love celebrating the fifth anniversary of A Common Word with Miroslav Volf (Yale) and HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan.
6 October, 2012, University of Marburg, Rudolf Bultmann Institute of Hermeneutics, keynote conference lecture, ‘Visualising the Wholly-Other: Rudolf Otto, Gender and the Numinous Appearance’, to the ‘International Congress "Rudolf Otto: Theology - Philosophy of Religion - History of Religions"’.
June 27 2012, The Woolf Institute,
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CHART 2011-12 to 2015-16 Cambridge, ‘Regarding the Other in Modern Jewish Thought’.
May 12, 2012, Liverpool Hope University, ‘Idolatry and Fixation: Modern Jewish Thought and the Prophetic Criticism of the Cosmetically and Technologically Perfected Female Face in Contemporary Popular Culture.’
January 8, 2012, Oxford University Day School, keynote conference lecture, ‘Imagining Jewish Art’.
November 3 2011, Trinity College, University of Oxford, ‘Images of Modesty: Figuring the Divine Image and the Sexualized Body’.
October 25 2011, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, keynote conference lecture: ‘Disappearing Images: Gender, Forgetting and the Second Commandment Doubled.’
10 May, 2011, The Walter Hussey Lecture in the Church and the Arts, University of Oxford, ‘'The Image of God in the Image: Women as Religious Subjects in Jewish and Christian Art'
March 30 2011, University of Chichester, 'What's Jewish About Modern Jewish Art? Exodus 20: 4 and the Making and Unmaking of Images'