Sean Hannan 7-352H | Department of Humanities | MacEwan University | City Centre Campus 10700 – 104 Ave. | Edmonton AB T5J 4S2 | Canada [email protected] | (780) 292-1150 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor in the Humanities, MacEwan University (Edmonton), July 2016 - EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), 2016 Awarded with Distinction Discipline: Divinity (History of Christianity) Dissertation: “Belatedness: Augustine on Transformation in Time and History” Committee: Willemien Otten (Advisor); Jean-Luc Marion and David Nirenberg (Readers) Qualifying Exams (2012): Ancient Christianity (Margaret Mitchell); Medieval Christianity (Willemien Otten); Early Modern Christianity (Susan Schreiner); Philosophy of Religion – Kant through Heidegger (Jean-Luc Marion) M.A. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), 2008 Discipline: Social Sciences (History) Thesis: “The Essence of Relation: Eternity and Trinity in Augustine’s De Trinitate” B.A. University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada), History (with Honors), 2007 Awarded with Honours Discipline: History Thesis: “The Specter of Theology in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness” BOOKS Mysticism and Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism. Co-written with W. Ezekiel Goggin. London: Routledge, Under Contract. Reading Augustine: on Time, Change, History, and Conversion. Part of the Reading Augustine Series, edited by Miles Hollingworth. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. CO-EDITED VOLUMES Political Theology: Promise and Prospects. Edited by Willemien Otten, Andrea White, and Sean Hannan. In Preparation. Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus. Edited by Jason Aleksander, Joshua Hollmann, Michael Edward Moore, and Sean Hannan. In Preparation. Augustine and Time. Edited by John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, and Sean Hannan. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, Under Contract. Hannan – CV June 2020 – 1 ARTICLES & CHAPTERS “Individuating Time: the Indivisible Moment in Augustine and Ancient Atomism.” The Unique, the Singular, and the Individual: the Debate about the Non-Comparable. Eds. Ingolf U. Dalferth and Trevor W. Kimball. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Forthcoming. “The Alienated Interiority of Cogitatio.” Re-Thinking Augustine on Interiority. Eds. Matthew W. Knotts, Anthony Dupont, & Gerald Boersma. Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming. “Nineveh Overturned: Augustine and Chrysostom on the Threat of Jonah.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 28, no. 1 (2020), 61-87. “Knife-Edge & Saddleback: Augustine & William James on the Psychology of the Specious Present.” Consensus 40, no. 2 (2019), 5.1-12. “Augustine’s Time of Death in City of God 13.” Augustinian Studies 50, no. 1 (2019), 43-63. “Demonic Historiography & the Historical Sublime in Augustine’s City of God.” Studia Patristica XCVIII, vol. 24 (Autumn 2017), 553-560. “To See Coming: Augustine and Heidegger on the Arising and Passing Away of Things.” Medieval Mystical Theology: the Journal of the Eckhart Society 21, no. 1 (2012), 75-91. AWARDS 2020 MacEwan University Distinguished Teaching Award (Nominated) 2019 MacEwan University Research Dissemination Grant 2019 MacEwan University Just-in-Time Funding Grant 2018 SSHRC Institutional Research Grant (Collaborative) 2018 North American Patristics Society Research Grant 2018 MacEwan University Research Dissemination Grant 2018 Forum Humanum Grant from the Udo Keller Stiftung 2017 MacEwan University Supplemental Professional Development Grant 2014 Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship 2014 Martin Marty Center Dissertation Fellowship 2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award BOOK REVIEWS Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought, by Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, Journal of Religion (forthcoming). In the Fullness of Time: Essays on Christology, Creation, and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham, edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Grant Macaskill, and Jonathan T. Pennington, Anglican Theological Review (forthcoming). Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey, by Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, Reading Religion (May 2019). Hannan – CV June 2020 – 2 Sin, Grace, and Free Will: a Historical Survey of Christian Thought, vol. 1: the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine, by Matthew Knell, Augustinian Studies 50, no. 1 (January 2019), 118-121. Life in the Spirit: Trinitarian Grammar and Pneumatic Community in Hegel and Augustine, by Douglas Finn, Journal of Religion 98, no. 4 (October 2018), 564-565. Suffering and Evil in Early Christian Thought, edited by Nonna Verna Harrison and David G. Hunter, Augustinian Studies 49, no. 2 (July 2018), 297-300. Eros and Self-Emptying: the Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard, by Lee C. Barrett, Journal of Religion 98, no. 3 (July 2018), 398-399. Augustine’s Confessions, translated by Sarah Ruden, & Augustine’s Confessions, translated by Peter Constantine, Christian Century (June 2018). Augustine and Kierkegaard, edited by John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, and Helene Tallon Russell, Reading Religion (May 2018). Augustine and the Environment, edited by John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, and Mark Smillie, Reading Religion (January 2018). Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine, by Joseph Clair, Reading Religion (September 2017). The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Second Edition, edited by David Vincent Meconi and Eleonore Stump, Augustinian Studies 46, no. 2 (2015), 286-289. Reason, Faith, and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought, by Kevin Corrigan, Journal of Religion 95, no. 2 (April 2015), 261-262. The Space of Time: a Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII, by David van Dusen, Louvain Studies 38 (2014), 386-388. Memory in Augustine’s Theological Anthropology, by Paige E. Hochschild, Journal of Religion 94, no. 4 (October 2014), 536-538. Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, by Peter Van Nuffelen, Journal of Religion 94, no. 1 (January 2014), 111-112. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS “Time in Coronatide: Why We’re Not Actually Living in Groundhog Day,” May 2020, Sightings. “Love and Violence in Augustine and Arendt,” August 2018, Political Theology. “Letting Augustine Be Augustine,” June 2018, Christian Century. Hannan – CV June 2020 – 3 “Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities at MacEwan,” July 2017, Digital Humanities Resources, MacEwan University Library. “Scholarly Labour and the Fantasy of Self-Fulfillment,” May 2017, Craft of Teaching. “The Travails of Trying to Go Digital: from the Humanities to the Digital Humanities,” January 2017, Craft of Teaching, University of Chicago Divinity School. “Twilight of the Textbooks: Smashing Idols through Classroom Debate & Dialogue,” November 2016, Craft of Teaching, University of Chicago Divinity School. “A Hypothetical Miracle That Could Occur: Rudy Giuliani’s Augustine & Trump’s Future,” November 2016, Sightings, University of Chicago Divinity School. WEBSITES CURATED American Cusanus Society Christianity in its Contexts: an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference Humanities Commons Research Site. History of Christian Thought: Digital Tools and Resources for the Study of Christianity. Academia.edu Research Site. TEACHING COMPETENCY Medieval and Early Modern History; Introduction to the Study of Religion; History of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; Early Christianity; Religion and Art; Religion and Gender; Religion and the Environment; Digital Humanities; Legal, Political, and Social Theory; Great Books; North Africa TEACHING EXPERIENCE MacEwan University (Edmonton, AB) Mysticism & Gender, Winter 2021 Outlined a new senior-level seminar on the relationship between mystical rhetoric and gender politics in the history of religion, with a special focus on Christianity, Judaism, & Islam in the medieval period. Readings include Hildegard of Bingen, the Zohar, & Ibn Arabi. History of Christianity, Fall 2019 Built from scratch a third-year course on the history of global Christianities from the first century through the fifteenth. Incorporated topics ranging from the New Testament, Ethiopian Christianity, and Manichaeism to Latin Averroism, mysticism, and questions of gender. Secrets of Early Christianity, Fall 2018 – Present Built from scratch a fourth-year seminar on the question of ‘apocryphal’ texts (broadly construed) in the first few centuries of Christian culture. Challenged categories of orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and gnosis via readings of the Apostolic Fathers and the Nag Hammadi codices. Hannan – CV June 2020 – 4 Religion, Science, and Superstition in Medieval Europe, Fall 2018 Conducted a senior-level directed reading course on the contested boundaries separating licit from illicit ways of knowing in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Relevant areas of inquiry included alchemy, astrology, naturopathy, necromancy, and theophagy. Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, & Islam, Fall 2018 – Present Inaugurated, for the first time at MacEwan, a second-year survey of the intertwined lineages of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with a focus on late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Readings were drawn from the Scriptures and authoritative theological texts of all three traditions. Comparative Mysticisms: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Winter 2018 Designed a third-year topics course interrogating the category of ‘mysticism’ as applied to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic texts from the medieval period. Authors included Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch, Marguerite Porete, Ibn ‘Arabi, & the Zohar. Witchcraft & Gender in the Late Middle Ages & Early Modernity, Winter 2018 Conducted a senior-level thesis