The Christianity in Antiquity Reading Group is excited to host Virginia Burrus, Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, for a public lecture titled “Queering Creation: Ecocritical Readings of Ancient Saints’ Lives.”

Burrus’ research focuses on the literary and cultural history of Christianity in Late Antiquity, with special interests in gender, sexuality, and the body, ecocriticism, and martyrdom and asceticism. Her major publications include Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions (2010), Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects (2008), Toward a Theology of Eros (2006), The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2004), and “Begotten, Not Made”: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (2000).

The CIA Reading Group would like to thank its many co-sponsors for making this event possible, including the UNC Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Dorothy Wiley Fund, UNC Department of Religious Studies, Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies, Royster Society of Fellows, and Duke Graduate Program in Early Christianity.

***There will be a small public reception after the lecture. Event and reception jointly sponsored by the Christianity in Antiquity Reading Group, Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Dorothy Wiley Fund, UNC Department of Religious Studies, Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies, the Royster Society of Fellows, and Duke Graduate Program in Early Christianity.