Elizabeth Castelli


Elizabeth Castelli is an author and Professor Of Religion at Barnard College. She specializes in biblical studies, late ancient Christianity, feminist studies in religion along with theory and method in the study of religion, with a particular focus with the after-effects of biblical and early Christian texts, including the citation of the Bible and ancient Christian sources in various debates in terms of cultural and political expressions.
Castelli is also an Editorial Director of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books She is also part of the advisory board of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, on the board of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a member of the board of the Center of Constitutional Rights.

Education

Castelli attended Brown University, where she earned an Honors Bachelor in English and American Literature in 1979, and Claremont Graduate School, where she earned her Masters and Doctorate in Religion during 1986 and 1987, respectively. For her Doctorate Castelli focused on Christian origins.

Career

During her early career Castelli worked as an Executive Director on Domestic Violence on the Rhode Island Council and a Staff Coordinator at Brown University from 1979-1981. She then worked as an instructor at Mount St. Mary's College in the spring of 1987 and as an Assistant Professor at three schools, including College of Wooster, University of California at Berkeley and at Occidental College, all in the department of Religious Studies.

She currently works as a Professor at Bernard College in the department of Religion. She began working with the college in 1995 as an Assistant Professor. She became an Associate Professor in 2002 and became a Professor in 2013.

Academic and professional honors

Books, edited collections and screenplays