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Bradley K. Storin

Bradley K. Storin

 

Associate Professor

Undergraduate Advisor for Religious Studies

Ph.D.: Religious Studies, Indiana University (2012)

Phone: 225-578-2277
Email: bstorin@lsu.edu 
Office: 113 Coates

Biography

Bradley K. Storin grew up in Austin, Texas and received a B.A. in Religious Studies and Classics from the University of Texas (2003). He also received an M.T.S. from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (2005) and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Indiana University (2012).

Areas of Interest

Professor Storin specializes in the study of Christianity in late antiquity (ca. 100-600 C.E.) with specific interest in issues of religious violence, identity, community, and literary genre.

Courses Offered

  • REL 1005 New Testament
  • REL 3000 Christianity
  • REL 4301 Theories of Religion
  • REL 4505 The Rise of Christianity
  • REL/HIST 4507 Christian Monasticism
  • REL/HIST 4507 Body and Soul in Early Christianity
  • HNRS 2030 Holy Violence in Early Christianity
  • HNRS 2030 The Lives of Saints

Awards and Honors

  • Recipient of 2023 Manship  Summer Research Fellowsip 
  • Recipient of 2019 Manship Summer Research Fellowship
  • Recipient of 2019 HSS International Travel Grant
  • Recipient of 2017 Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award
  • Recipient of 2016 LSU HSS Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member
  • Recipient of the 2015 Council on Research Summer Stipend

Selected Publications

Monographs, Edited Volumes, and Book-Length Translations

  • Callinicus. The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae (in preperation)
  • (with Ellen Muehlberger) New Approaches to Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of David Brakke (forthcoming in 2024)
  • The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024).
  • Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography, Christianity in Late Antiquity 6 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)
  • Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection: The Complete Translation,  Christianity in Late Antiquity 7 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)
  • (with Cristiana Sogno and Edward Watts) Late Antique Letters Collection: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Christian Thought in Political, Social, and Institutional Contexts from Constantine to Theodosius II," in The Cambridge History of Early Christian Thought, ed. Lewis O. Ayres (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
  • "Kirchenvater: Briefschreiber im 4./5. Jh. Golden age of letter-writing: Gregor von Nazianz," in Handbuch Brief: Antike, ed. Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Alfons Furst (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming)
  • "Monastic Identity and Violence in Callinicus' Life of Hypatius," Studia Patristica 129 (2021): 155 - 67
  • "Autohagiobiography: Gregory of Nazianzus among His Biographers," Studies in Late Antiquity 1 (2017): 254 - 281
  • "Reconsidering Gregory of Nazianzus' Letter Collection," Studia Patristica 95 (2017): 254 - 81
  • "The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nazianzus," in Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, eds. Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 81 - 101
  • (with Cristiana Sogno and Edward J. Watts) "Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity," in Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, eds. Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 1 - 12
  • "In a Silent Way: Asceticism and Literature in the Rehabilitation of Gregory of Nazianzus," Journal of Early Christian Studies 19 (2011): 225 - 57

 

Translations in Anthologies and Sourcebooks

  • "Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 18.5 - 17, 'Funeral Oration for His Father," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024.)
  • "Canons of the Councils of Elvira and Arles," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • "Gregory of Nazianzus, Poem 2.1.12.25-47, 136 - 810, 'On Himself and Concerning the Bishops," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024)
  • "Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 43.1, 37 - 38, 43 - 53, 60 - 70, 77 - 80, "Funeral Oration for the Basil the Great, Bishop of Cappadocian Caesarea," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • "Maximus of Turin, Sermons 105 - 108," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • "John Chrysostom, First Oration against the Jews," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • "Callinicus, The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • "Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History 7.7, 13 - 15," Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • "Leo of Rome, Tome," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 36 - 48
  • "Henotikon of 482," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 187 - 190
  • (with Mark DelCogliano) "Justinian, On the Right Faith," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalccedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 310 - 340
  • "Second Henotikon," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 393 - 97
  • "Tatian, Oration to the Greeks 4 - 7," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 79 - 83
  • "Origen, On First Principles 2.6," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 187 - 96
  • (With Mark DelCogliano "Apollinarius of Laodicea, Selected Letters," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 322 - 26
  • "Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Faith and the Incarnation," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings.Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 322-26
  • "Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Body's Union with the Divinity in Christ," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings.Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022), 327 - 32
  • "Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 388 - 98
  • "Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.10 - 11" in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 399 - 402
  • "Ibas, Letter to Maris," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controverys, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 726 - 30
  • "Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor 1.1 - 4, 13, " in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 3 - 12
  • "Cyril of Jerusalem, Prologue and Mystical Catecheses," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 217-43
  • "Gregory the Wonderworker, Address to Origen 5 - 9," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 29 - 40
  • "John Chrysostom, Baptismal Instructions," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 244 - 72
  • "Ptolemy, Letter to Flora," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde- Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 3 - 10
  • "Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles Preface and 1.1-1.3," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde - Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge  University Press, 2017), 71 - 105
  • "Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.1 - 1.1.3," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde - Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 294 - 301

 

Encyclopedia Entries

  • “Athanasian Creed,” “Diocese, “Homoeans,” and “Metropolitan,” in The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson, 2 vols. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 1:170, 1:485, 1:738, 2:1144
  •  “Basil of Amasea,” “Gregory of Nazianzus,” and “Macrina the Younger,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Orlin, with Lisbeth S. Fried, Jennifer Wright Knust, Michael L. Satlow, and Michael E. Pregill (London: Routledge, 2016), 134, 375-76, 556

 

Book Reviews

  • Review of Preaching the Gospel to the Hellenes: The Life and Works of Gregory the Wonderworker by Francesco Celia, Late Antique History and Religion 20 (Leuven: Peeters, 2019), in Review of Biblical Literature (forthcoming)
  •  Review of Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis by Michael Motia, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), in Journal of Late Antiquity (forthcoming)
  • Review of Anna Marmodoro and Neil B. McLynn, eds., Exploring Gregory of Nyssa. Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), SEHEPUNKTE - Review Journal for History 20.3 (2020)
  •  Review of Andrew Hofer, Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus in, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in The Catholic Historical Review, 101 (2015): 598-99
  • Review of Christopher Beeley, ed., Re-Reading Gregory of Nazianzus: Essays on History, Theology, and Culture, (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press), 2012, in Journal of Early Christian Studies 21 (2013): 473-75
  •  Review of Susanna Elms, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 49 (Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.12.63