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TAMSIN JONES June, 2021 Associate Professor of Religion Department of Religion, McCook 203 Trinity College Hartford, CT 06106 [email protected] EDUCATION Th.D. Harvard Divinity School, 2008 (Theology) Dissertation: “Apparent Darkness: Jean-Luc Marion’s Retrieval of Greek Apophatic Tradition” M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School, 2000 (Christianity and Culture) B.A. (Honors) McGill University, 1998 (Religious Studies) PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT RECORD Associate Professor of Religion 2019-present Department of Religious Studies, Trinity College Assistant Professor of Religion 2013-2019 Department of Religious Studies, Trinity College Lecturer and Fellow 2011-2013 Religious Studies, University of Victoria Lecturer on Religion 2008-2011 Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University Director of Undergraduate Studies 2008-2011 Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies 2005-2007 Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University PUBLICATIONS Books: A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness, Series in Philosophy of Religion, Merold Westphal (ed), (Indiana University Press, 2011). Tamsin Jones / p. 2 222 Chapters: “Materialism, Social Construction, and Radical Empiricism: Debating the Status of ‘Experience’ in the Study of Religion” in Robyn Horner and Claude Romano (eds), The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021): 135-148. Invited and refereed. “The Geography of the Rubicon: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies in the American Context” in Martin Koci and Jason Alvis (eds), Transforming the Theological Turn: Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque (London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). Invited and refereed. “New Materialism and the Study of Religion.” Introduction to Religious Experience and New Materialism: Movement Matters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 1-23. Invited and refereed. “Emmanuel Levinas and Gregory of Nyssa on Reading, Desire and Subjectivity,” in Scot Douglas and Morwenna Ludlow (eds), Reading Forwards and Reading Backwards: Conversations about Reading the Church Fathers (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2011): 63-81, 157-161. Invited and refereed. Articles (Peer reviewed): “Can Victims Make Sense of Trauma?” Philosophy Today 65, no. 4 (August 2021). “A Phenomenology of the Liturgy of Maundy Thursday” Religions 12, no. 8: 608 (August 2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080608 “The Political Theology of Jean-Luc Marion,” Political Theology Network (July 2021): https://politicaltheology.com/jean-luc-marion. “The Particular Sacrality of the Secular,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89, no. 1 (March 2021): 336-341. “Is Academic Theology an Answer to the Problem of the Philosophy of Religion?” Journal of Religious and Cultural Theory (Oct. 2019): 415-428. “Responsible Subjects: On the Ability to Respond to Transcendence,” Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy 1 (2018): 61-75. “Questions from the Borders: A Response to Kevin Hart’s Kingdoms of God,” Sophia 56, no.1 (March 2017): 5-14. Tamsin Jones / p. 3 333 “Bearing Witness: Hope for the Unseen,” Political Theology 17, no. 2 (April 2016): 137-150. “Traumatized Subjects: Continental Philosophy of Religion and the Ethics of Alterity,” Journal of Religion 94, no. 2 (April 2014): 143-160. “The Material Conditions for Theorizing Maternality, or Why is it so difficult to think about being a mother?” Journal of Theology and Sexuality 19, no. 3 (2013): 283-294. “Dionysius in Hans Urs von Balthasar and Jean-Luc Marion,” in Modern Theology 24/4 (Blackwell, 2008); subsequent inclusion in Sarah Coakley and Charles M. Stang (eds), Re-Thinking Pseudo-Dionysius (Blackwell, 2009), pp. 213-224. “Revealing the Invisible: Gregory of Nyssa on the Gift of Revelation,” Modern Theology 21/1 (Blackwell, 2005): 67-85. Reviews and Interviews: “The Geography of the Rubicon: Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies in the American Context”. In Syndicate Theology (Nov. 16, 2018--online). Joseph Rivera, The Contemplative Self After Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Theology (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015). In Syndicate Theology (Oct. 9, 2017--online). Jean-Luc Marion, Negative Certainties (University of Chicago, 2015). In The Journal of Religion 98, no. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 2018): 286-288. “New Wine and Old Wineskins: A Response to F. Young’s God’s Presence: A Contemporary Recapitulation of Early Christianity.” In Syndicate Theology 3, no. 3 (May/June 2016): 4-7. Jean-Yves Lacoste, From Theology to Theological Thinking (University of Virginia Press, 2014). In The Journal of Religion 96, no. 4 (University of Chicago Press, 2016): 566-567. “Silence, Prayer and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Coakley,” The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. Kevin Hart (ed), Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007). In Modern Theology 24/2 (Blackwell, 2008): 309-311. Works in Progress: Traumatic Religion/Sacred Trauma: Truth and Subjectivity in the Face of Excess (monograph in progress). “Incarnational Phenomenology” in Routledge Handbook for Phenomenology and Theology Tamsin Jones / p. 4 444 (forthcoming) PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Professional Conferences: “The Prophetic Thought of Richard Kearney”. European Center for the Study of War and Peace: Kearney Workshop, Vis, Croatia (and online), July 5-6, 2021. “Dissecting the Difference between Phenomenology and Theology (Again): A Response to Amber Bowen”. “Phenomenology and Theology Make Two: A Seminar on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of Dominique Janicaud’s ‘Tournant théologique’”. International Network in Philosophy of Religion. (May 19, 2021 online). “Ethics, Subjectivity, and Ascetic Practice: A Roundtable Discussion of Niki Kasumi Clement’s Sites of the Ascetic Self”. (Presider). Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Dec. 7, 2020, online). “Making Sense of Traumatic Violence”. Presented at the International Network of Philosophy of Religion, Paris, France (June 21, 2019). “Making and Unmaking: Maternality and the Risk of Creation”. Presented as part of the “Theopoetics, Mysticism, and Anatheism Panel,” Annual Conference of Mystical Theology Network, Boston College (Feb. 28, 2019). “Materialism, Social Construction, and Radical Empiricism: Debating the Status of ‘Experience’ in the Study of Religion” to be presented at the Rome Seminar: Atheism, Religion, and Experience, Australian Catholic University (Jan.11, 2019). “Sacrality, Secularity, and the Study of Religion: A Response to Onishi’s The Sacrality of the Secular”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO (Nov. 18, 2018). “Why Should We Talk about God at all?”. Presented at the Westar Institute Seminar on God and the Human Future, Denver, CO (Nov. 16, 2018). “The Geography of the Rubicon: Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies in the American Context”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy, Memphis, TN (Oct. 19, 2017). “Responsible Subjects: On the Ability to Respond to Transcendence”. Presented at the International Network of Philosophy of Religion, Paris, France (June 23, 2017). “Religious Aesthetics, Theology, and the Humanities”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Tamsin Jones / p. 5 555 American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX (Nov. 19, 2016). “Cracks in the Kingdom: A Response to Kevin Hart’s Kingdoms of God”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy, Atlanta, GA (Oct. 9, 2015). “Why Matter Matters: New Materialism and the Study of Religious Experience”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, MD (Nov. 26, 2013). “Bearing Witness: Responding to Trauma and Religious Experience”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Congress 2013 of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria, BC (June 4, 2013). “How to Avoid Idolatry: A Comparison of ‘Apophasis’ in Gregory of Nyssa and Pseudo- Dionysius”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, Congress 2013 of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria, BC (June 6, 2013). “Beyond Truth: Trauma Theory and Religious Experience.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL (Nov. 2012). “The Material Conditions for Theorizing Maternality, or Why is it so difficult to think about being a mother?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL (Nov. 2012). “Heidegger and MacIntyre on the Philosophical Function of the University: A Response to Robert Piercey.” Presented at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Victoria, BC (Oct. 21, 2012). “Personhood – Past and Present: A Response to Lucian Turcescu.” Presented at the Fourth Annual Logos Workshop on Philosophical Theology, Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, (May 2012). “Hospitality in a Strange World: The Hope of Richard Kearney’s Anatheism.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, CA (Nov. 2011). “Paradoxicality and Certainty: A Response to C. Stephen Evans.” Presented at the Third Annual Logos Workshop on Philosophical Theology, Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, (May 2011). “Resurrecting the Subject: Philosophy of Religion and Trauma.” Presented at Postmodernism, Culture