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

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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), 1–103.

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, Let’s 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 Almodóvar’s 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.