Prof.
Dr. Stefanie Knauss
Professor, Systemic/Constructive Theology, Theories &
Methods of Culture
Theology
& Religious Studies
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
USA
E-mail:
stefanie.knauss@villanova.edu
Homepage
Biography
Undergraduate
and graduate studies of catholic theology and english
language and literature in Freiburg (Germany) and Manchester
(UK); PhD at Graz University (Austria): thesis on the
relationship between body, film and religion. Post-doc
in Trento (Italy). Since 2013 assistant professor at Villanova
University. Member of the editorial boards of Concilium
and the Journal of Religion, Media and Film.
Research
Topics
Theological
gender studies and queer theology
Theology and culture
Film and religion
Body and religion
Aesthetic theology
Selected
Publications
Knauss,
Stefanie, Religion and Film: Representation, Experience,
Meaning. Brill Research Perspectives in Theology 4.1 (2020),
1103.
Knauss,
Stefanie, Imagining Mary in Theology and Visual Culture:
Between Constraint and Resistance. Women: A Cultural Review
30.2 (2019), 123-140.
Fritz,
Natalie/ Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina/ Knauss, Stefanie/
Mäder, Marie-Therese/ Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria: Sichtbare
Religion: Eine Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft.
Berlin: De Gruyter 2018.
Knauss,
Stefanie, Lets Talk about Celibacy! How Western
Christian Culture Affects the Construction of Sex, Body,
and Gender in Popular and Scholarly Discourses. Interdisciplinary
Journal for Religion and Transformation 5 (2017), 84-104.
Knauss,
Stefanie: Visionary Critique: Gender, Self and Relationship
in "Rosetta" and "Two Days, One Night".
Journal of Religion, Film and Media, 2(2), 2016, 9-14.
Knauss,
Stefanie: "Get to Know the Unknown": Understanding
Religion and Advertising. Journal of Media and Religion,
15(2), 2016, 100-112.
Knauss,
Stefanie: All About Love The Materialization of
a Foundational Concept of Christianity in Pedro Almodóvars
Queer Cinema. Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien
21.1 (2015), 11-26.
Knauss,
Stefanie/ Pezzoli, Olgiati, Daria: The Normative Power
of Images: Religion, Gender, Visuality. Religion and Gender
5.1 (2015), 1-17.
Knauss,
Stefanie: More than a Provocation: Sexuality, Media and
Theology. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014.
Knauss,
Stefanie: Transcendental Bodies: Überlegungen zur
Bedeutung des Körpers für filmische und religiöse
Erfahrung. Regensburg: Pustet 2008.