Marianne M. Delaporte

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Office location:	Campus Center 5
Office hours:	Monday and Wednesday
Phone number:	(650) 508-4181
Email:	mdelaporte@ndnu.edu

Education History

• Ph.D., Medieval Church History. Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ. 2004.

  Dissertation: “The Headless Holy Man: A Study of the Lives of Denis by Hilduin of Saint-Denis.”

• M.A., History of Religion. Graduate Theological Union, Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, CA. 1993. 

• Dissertation: “Saints and Beasts: The Iconography of Animals in Breton Hagiography.”

• B.A. – Religion and Humanities, University of Chicago, 1990

Courses Taught

• History of Christianity, early and modern
• Women's Spirituality
• Developments in Gender and Sexuality in the Christian Church
• Reel Religion
• Voices in Christian Spirituality
• Theologies of Liberation
• The Christian in Society
• World Religions
• Ways of the Earth
  

Research and Interests

• Rewriting of saints lives: influences of Hilduin's 9th c. vita of St Denis upon later torture narratives

Recognitions

• Fellowship - Lilly Foundation Grant: Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, 2006 - 2007
• Faculty Development Research Grant, NDNU. Fall 2005, Spring 2007.
• Doctoral Fellowship – Princeton Theological Seminary, 1996 – 2000.
• Graduate Fellowship Award – Graduate Theological Union, 1991 – 1993.

Professional Affiliations

• American Academy of Religion
• American Association of University Professors
• American Historical Association
• American Society of Church History
• Hagiography Society
• Medieval Association of the Pacific

Teaching Experience 

• Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. Fall 2003 – present.
• Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA: Contract teacher, “Medieval Europe” Winter 2002.
• Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ: Teaching fellow, “Introduction to Church History I and II” Fall 1999, Spring 1998, Fall 1997.

• Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA: Teaching assistant, “Film and Religion” Spring 1992.

Professional Experience

• Princeton Theological Seminary: research assistant – sociology, Richard Fenn, Fall 1998 – Spring 2002.
• Princeton Theological Seminary: editorial assistant to Richard Fenn, Companion to Sociology of Religion, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
• Princeton Theological Seminary: research assistant – modern European history, James Deming. Fall 1998 – Spring 1999.
• Graduate Theological Union: research assistant – American Catholic Church history, Jeffrey Burns, 1992 – 1994.

Community Activities

• Co-Chair, History of Christianity Sessions, WECSOR (Western Commission for the Study of Religion). 2007 - present.
• Member of the American Society of Church History’s Membership Committee, 2005 - present.
• Associate Editor of Journal of Theology and Religion, 2006 - present.

Publications

• Paper Presentation: The Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius as Understood or Misunderstood by Hilduin of Saint-Denis at the American Society of Church History Spring meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah. April 13 - 15, 2007.
• Paper Presentation: Monsters Singing of Love: Torture and Cephalophory in the 9th c. vita of Saint Denis in “Writing and Re-Writing Christian History” session. WECSOR Meeting. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. March 24 - 26, 2007
• “He Darkens Me with Brightness: the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius in Hilduin’s Vita of Saint Denis” in Religion and Theology: A Journal of Contemporary Religious Discourse (13:3 and 4), 2006.
• Several articles in Westminster Dictionary of the Christian Church. Forthcoming.
• Commentator - “Hybridity as Orthodoxy” Session. American Society of Church History. January 8, 2006. Philadelphia.
• Co-author, “Hell as a Residual Category” in Companion to Sociology of Religion, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
• Review of John Kitchen’s Saints’ Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography in Koinonia (11:1, Spring 1999).
• Review of Richard Fenn’s The End of Time in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin (20:2, 1999).
• Review of Gary MacEoin et al., ed. The Papacy and the People of God, in Koinonia (9:1, Spring 1998).