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Dr. Margaret M. Mitchell, MA, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Margaret M. Mitchell is a literary historian of ancient Christianity. Her research and teaching span a range of topics in New Testament and early Christian writings up through the end of the fourth century. She analyzes how the earliest Christians literally wrote their way into history, developing a literary and religious culture that was deeply embedded in Hellenistic Judaism and the wider Greco-Roman world, while also proclaiming its distinctiveness from each. Special interests include the Pauline letters (both in their inaugural moments and in the history of their effects), the poetics and politics of ancient biblical interpretation, and the intersection of text, image, and artifact in the fashioning of early Christian culture.
Prof. Mitchell is the author of four books: Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation (1991); The Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation (2000); The 鈥淏elly-Myther鈥� of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church (with Rowan A. Greer, 2007), and Paul, the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics (2010). She is also the coeditor of two volumes, including, with Frances M. Young, The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1: Origins to Constantine (2006). Recent articles and presentations include 鈥淭he Poetics and Politics of Christian Baptism in the Abercius Monument鈥�; "Peter鈥檚 鈥楬ypocrisy鈥� and Paul鈥檚: Two 鈥楬ypocrites鈥� at the Foundation of Earliest Christianity?鈥� and "'Engraved on a Stele': Scripture as a Public Monument in the Late Fourth Century.鈥�
Prof. Mitchell is an elected member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, l鈥橝ssociation internationale d鈥櫭﹖udes patristiques, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is currently working on a volume of translations of occasional sermons by John Chrysostom on Pauline passages for the Writings From the Greco-Roman World series (for which she has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, to be taken in 2015-2016). Prof. Mitchell, in collaboration with , has received a Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship from the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago for creative collaboration and programming around "The Good Book," a play commissioned by Court from Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson (who wrote the much-acclaimed "An Iliad," that was produced by Court in 2011 and 2013). "The Good Book" will have its world premiere at Court in March, 2015.
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