|
|
|
|
|
Ellen Muehlberger
Assistant Professor
PhD Indiana University, Department of Religious Studies, Minor in Jewish Studies, 2008
Other U of M Affiliation:
Near Eastern Studies
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
4163 Thayer Bldg.
Phone:
734-615-2960
E-mail:
emuehlbe@umich.edu
|
|
|
|
Field(s) of Study:
Early Christian history and literature, Coptic and Syriac studies, religion in late antiquity, theories of the religious imagination
|
Biography:
Ellen Muehlberger received her PhD in Religious Studies from Indiana University in 2008 and her BA in Comparative Religion and Biomedical Science from Western Michigan University. Her area of research is Christianity in late antiquity, with specializations in Coptic and Syriac studies and theories of the religious imagination. She is currently revising the manuscript of Angels in the Religious Imagination of Late Antiquity, a project which grew from her dissertation, and joins the faculties in History and Near Eastern Studies this fall after a year in the department of Religious Studies at DePauw University.
|
Selected Publications:
“Ambivalence about the Angelic Life: The Promise and Perils of an Early Christian Discourse of Asceticism.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 16.4 (Winter 2008).
“The Representation of Theatricality in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods 39.1 (February 2008).
|
|
|
|
|
| 
| 
| 
