Carly Daniel-Hughes, ThD, M.Div, MA
- Professor, Religions and Cultures
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Religious Studies; Queer Theory and Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; History of Christianity; Early Christianity; Roman Empire
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Biography
Professor Daniel-Hughes’ research has contributed to the study of the body, gender, and sexuality in Christian late antiquity, particularly the history of sex work and the reception of Paul's letters related to these themes. She is author of The Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: Dressing for the Resurrection (Palgrave 2011), various edited volumes, and her work has appeared in Biblical Interpretation, Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Studies in Religion.
Her current book project is provisionally entitled Encounters with Early Christian “Women”: Feminism’s History. It illustrates how various early Christian figures, such as Mary Magdalene, Thecla, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Agnes, circulated with Anglo-American feminist thought from the 19th century until today. Playing with, and ultimately unsettling, the “waves” of feminism, it asks: how did, and do, feminist aspirations and disappointments get articulated around these historical figures? Offering a critical reflection on the feminist historiography of Christian antiquity, the book engages also Black feminist thought and trans studies in order to offer new analytics for a feminist history of Christian antiquity, and as a means to consider the emancipatory claims, limits, and ongoing challenges of this feminist work.
A devoted teacher, Dr. Daniel-Hughes has supervised numerous PhD and MA students. She is also the winner of two university-wide teaching awards.
Teaching activities
Recent Courses
Graduate:
Reli 6006 "Christian Bodies" (Winter 2021 and 2023)
Reli 6006 "Queering the Bible" (Fall 2019 and Winter 2024)
Undergraduate:
Reli 223 "Introduction to Christianity"
Reli 382 "Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Christianity"
Reli 320 "The Making of Christianity"
Selected publications
Select Publications
2023 “The Apostle of Failure: Queer Refusal, the Corinthian Letters and Paul’s Unflattering Characterization in the Acts of Thecla.” Biblical Interpretation 31.4, pp. 473-495.
2020 “Fantasy Echoes. Critical Reflections on ‘Women’ and the Feminist Historiography of Early Christianity.” Lectio Difficilior: European Electronic Journal for Feminist Exegesis. http://www.lectio.unibe.ch/e/index_e.html.