Elizabeth Castelli

Elizabeth Castelli is an author and Professor of Religion at Barnard College. She specializes in biblical studies, late ancient Christianity, feminist studies in religion along with theory and method in the study of religion, with a particular focus on the after-effects of biblical and early Christian texts, including the citation of the Bible and ancient Christian sources in debates concerning cultural and political expression.

Castelli is an Editorial Director of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books She is also on the advisory board of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, on the board of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a member of the board of the Center of Constitutional Rights.

Career During her early career Castelli worked as an executive director on domestic violence on the Rhode Island Council and a staff coordinator at Brown University from 1979-1981. The Postmodern Bible. Co-editor and co-author as member of the Bible and Culture Collective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Reimagining Christian Origins: A Colloquium Honoring Burton L. Mack. Edited with Hal Taussig. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1996. Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. Edited with the assistance of Rosamond C. Rodman. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001. Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence. Edited with Janet R. Jakobsen. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004. Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Paperback edition, 2007. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Saint Paul: A Screenplay. Authorized English translation from Italian. London: Verso Books, 2014.

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