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Prof Trevor Hart – Director of ITIA
Trevor Hart is Professor of Divinity and Director of ITIA.
Prof Hart welcomes applications for postgraduate research on any aspect of the relationship between Christian theology and the imagination. Presently, he is particularly interested in receiving applications to work on the interface between theology and literature, painting or theatre. See more...
Dr Gavin Hopps – Associate Director of ITIA
Dr Hopps is a Lecturer in Literature and Theology, with particular interests in Romantic writing and contemporary popular music. He has been a Lecturer in English at the universities of Aachen, Oxford, and Canterbury Christ Church, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Hopps is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Byron's Ghosts, and working on a number of monographs - including one on the act of apostrophe (Romantic Invocations), one on Indie music of the 80s and 90s (Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: Literary Pop) and one on Byron's Don Juan. He is also co-editing, with Dr Jane Stabler, a new edition of the Complete Poetical Words of Lord Byron, to be published by Longman in 6 volumes (2013-2037). See more...
Prof David Brown – Professorial Fellow of ITIA
Professor Brown is Professorial Fellow of ITIA.
Professor Brown welcomes applications for postgraduate research in any aspect of the relationship between theology and the wider culture, particularly the arts (all branches) and philosophy. See more...
Michael Partridge – Honorary Lecturer of ITIA
Michael Partridge is Honorary Lecturer of ITIA. Michael Partridge was born in South Africa and studied physics and mathematics at Cape Town University. Coming to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to continue work in theoretical physics, he chose to study philosophy instead. He taught philosophy for many years at Aberdeen University (and briefly at Aarhus University), later moving gradually into theology. Retiring early from Aberdeen, he is now Honorary Lecturer in the School of Divinity at St. Andrews. He has pursued a very wide range of interests within, on, and beyond the fringes of 'anglo-saxon analytic' philosophy, into areas involved in 'continental' philosophy, and into theology. A guiding concern has always been to relate philosophy and philosophy-formed practices, like theology, to the living concerns of people and societies (from which they spring) and to more concretely earthed practices like those of the sciences, literatures, religions, and practical ethics - asking also what various kinds of philosophical and other practices can and cannot do.
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