Author Elizabeth Castelli will present the Department of Classics Winslow Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 4:10 in the Red Pit. Her talk, "Martyrdom and meaning-making in ancient and contemporary Christian Contexts," is free and open to the public.
Castelli is an associate professor of religion at Barnard College. Her recent publications include Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (2004) and Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, an anthology co-edited with Janet Jakobsen (2004).
A specialist in biblical studies and the cultural history of early Christianity, she has become increasingly interested in the "afterlives" of early Christian texts and figures in the contemporary U.S. context. She is currently at work on a new book, Persecution Complexes: Identity Politics, the Language of Victimization, and Christian Activists on the Global Stage.
Castelli received her A.B. in English and American Literature from Brown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from the Claremont Graduate School.
