Curriculum Vitæ Name William John Torrance Kirby Citizenship Canadian Birth-date 4 July 1955 Position Professor of Ecclesiastical History McGill University Mailing Address School of Religious Studies William and Henry Birks Building 3520 University Street Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 2A7 Telephone 514-398-4128 (office) Fax 514-398-6665 E-mail [email protected] QUALIFICATIONS BA Classics (First Class Honours), 1977 University of King’s College, Halifax Entrance Scholarship, 1973 President’s Scholar, 1975 University Scholar, 1976 University Medal in Classics, 1977 MA Classics (Greek Literature and Philosophy), 1980 Dalhousie University Canada Council Special MA Scholar, 1977-78 Izaak Walton Killam Fellow, 1977-79 Dissertation: “OIKIA and POLIS: Aristotle’s critique of the Republic of Plato in Book II of the Politics” DPhil Modern History (Renaissance and Reformation), 1988 Christ Church, Oxford University Commonwealth Scholar, 1981-84 Dissertation: “The Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy in the Thought of Richard Hooker” APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2007- Professor of Ecclesiastical History Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 1997-2007 Associate Professor (2002-07), Assistant Professor (1997-2002) Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 2008-2014 Director, McGill Centre for Research on Religion / Centre de recherche sur la religion de l’université McGill (CREOR) 2020-2024 SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Insight Grant (principal investigator) 2021 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University 2018- McCord Fellow, Centre of Theological Inquiry, Princeton 2011- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) 2016 Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University 2014-15 Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University 2015 Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University 2013-2018 SSHRC Partnership Grant (co-investigator) Curriculum Vitæ Torrance Kirby 2 2013 Kennedy Visiting Professor of Renaissance Studies, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 2012 Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome 2011 Visiting Fellow, New College, University of Edinburgh 2011-2012 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (co-investigator) 2009 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS), Cambridge University 2009-2012 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (principal investigator) 2007 Research Associate, St John’s College, Oxford University 2005-2010 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (collaborator) 2005 Visiting Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University (life member) 2004-2007 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (co-investigator) 2004-2006 FQRSC (Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) Appui à la recherche innovante (co-chercheur) 2003-2006 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (principal investigator) 2002-05 Professeur Associé (Habilitation du conseil de la faculté des études supérieures), Université Laval, Québec 2001 Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC 1996-97 Resident Fellow, Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry 1989-96 Tutor, St John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1984-89 Tutor, Fellow, and Dean of College, University of King’s College 1981-84 Commonwealth Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford University PUBLICATIONS (R = peer review; * = SSHRC-funded; + = FQRSC-funded) Monographs R* Persuasion and Conversion: essays on religion, politics and the public sphere in early modern England. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/about/ Persuasion_and_Conversion.html?id=lRKaAAAAQBAJ R* The Zurich connection and Tudor political theology. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 131. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2007. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/ about/The_Zurich_Connection_and_Tudor_Politica.html?id=R6e8ZUiHMKEC R Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist: a reassessment of his Thought. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/about/Richard_Hooker_Reformer_and_Platonist. html?id= ZkmWz XO03RYC R The Theology of Richard Hooker in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation. Studies in Reformed Theology and History, E. David Willis (gen. ed). New Series, vol. 5. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Seminary Press, 2000. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Theology_of_Richard_Hooker _in_the_co.html?id=X3YmAQAAIAAJ R Richard Hooker’s Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, vol. 43. Leiden and New York: Brill, 1990. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/about/Richard_Hooker_s_ doctrine_of_the_royal_s.html?id=qgJ46-4FfdsC Books edited R* Paul’s Cross Sermons, 1521-1642. Gen. ed. Torrance Kirby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. DOI 10.1093/actrade/9780198723615.book.1. R From Rome to Zurich: between Ignatius and Vermigli: Essays in Honour of John Patrick Donnelly, SJ. Edited by Kathleen Comerford, Gary Jenkins, and Torrance Kirby. Boston & Leiden: Brill, 2017. Curriculum Vitæ Torrance Kirby 3 R Die Bekenntnisschriften der reformierten Kirchen. Band 3/2: Union, konsequente Reformation, Lehrentscheidungen 1605-1675, 2 Teil, 1647-1675. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2016. Jointly edited with Emidio Campi (University of Zurich). R* Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520‒1640. Edited by Torrance Kirby and P. G. Stanwood. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2014. [Proceedings of an international conference hosted by the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill in August 2012.] Ebook: http:// books.google.com/ books/about/Paul_s_Cross_and_the_Culture_of_Persuasi.html?id=nK2NAg AAQBAJ R Mediating Religious Cultures in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Torrance Kirby and Matthew Milner. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. Ebook: R* Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: scriptural hermeneutics and epistemology. Edited by Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar, and Bilal Baş. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. Ebook: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1443845582 R* A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli. Edited by Torrance Kirby, Emidio Campi, and Frank A. James III. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2009. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/about/ A_Companion_to_Peter_Martyr_Vermigli.html?id=sHg77JSrnEkC [Proceedings of an international conference on ‘The new hermeneutics of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562): exegesis and theology’, hosted at McGill University in August 2007.] R* A Companion to Richard Hooker. Edited by Torrance Kirby with a foreword by Rowan Williams. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008. Ebook: http://books.google.com/books/ about/A_Companion_ to_Richard_Hooker.html?id=HB0UMC2m8nwC R* Joseph C. McLelland, Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Loci Communes: A Literary History. Edited by Torrance Kirby. Montreal: McGill, 2007. R Richard Hooker and the English Reformation, edited by W.J. Torrance Kirby. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms, vol. 2. London and Dordrecht: Springer-Kluwer, 2003. Ebook: http://books.google. com/books/about/Richard_Hooker_and_the_English_Reformati.html?id=-7Cdp_g06J4C Journal Issues Edited R “Reformation Debates over the Lord’s Supper (1536–1560): Sources and Impact of the Consensus Tigurinus.” Special issue of Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 18.1 (2016), with Emidio Campi. R “Collective Bibliography.” Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 18.1 (2016), with Ian Hazlett. R “Richard Hooker Revisited.” Special issue of Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 16.1 (2014). Articles in refereed journals R “‘From death to life’: Jewel, Hooker, and a uniquely Anglican dynamic understanding of the true presence in the Eucharist,” The Anglican Way 21.4 (2020), 46-55. R “The ‘Cosmographic Mystery’: Johannes Kepler’s Conversion of Astronomy.” Laval revue théologique et philosophique, 75.1 (février 2019), 59-74. R “Richard Hooker: an introduction to his life and thought.” İslami İlimler Dergisi/The Journal of Islamic Sciences 20 (2016), 71-83. R* “Confessio Gebennensis: the Genevan Confession of 1549.” Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 18.1 (2016), 28-33. [Latin to English translation] R* “Consensus Tigurinus: the Zurich Agreement of 1549.” Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 18.1 (2016), 34-44. [Latin to English translation] R* “‘Divine offspring’: Richard Hooker’s Neoplatonic Account of Law and Causality.” Perichoresis 13.1 (2015), 3-15. [https://doi.org/10.1515/perc-2015-0001] R “Richard Hooker Revisited: an editorial.” Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 16.1 (2014), 5-8. R “‘Between the throne of God in heaven and his church upon earth here militant’: instruction and prayer in the fifth book of Hooker’s Lawes.” Dionysius 29 (2011), 247-258. Curriculum Vitæ Torrance Kirby 4 R* “Signs and Things Signified: sacramental hermeneutics in John Jewel’s Challenge Sermon and the culture of persuasion at Paul’s Cross.” Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies 11.1 (2009), 57-89. R* “The Public Sermon: Paul’s Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1534-1570.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 31.1 (2008),