Dr Gavin Hopps

Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2837

Email

grh10@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Hopps is Director of ITIA and Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology. He has been involved in ITIA since he came to St Andrews as an RCUK Academic Fellow in 2006. Prior to this, he was Lecturer in English at the universities of Aachen, Oxford and Canterbury Christ Church, and he was a CRASSH Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. 

Teaching

Research areas

Dr Hopps's research focuses on theology and the arts, with particular interests in Romantic literature and contemporary popular music. He is currently working with Professor Jane Stabler on a new edition of the complete poetical works of Lord Byron and completing a monograph entitled Romantic Enchantment: Fantasy, Theology and Affect.

PhD supervision

• Elspeth Manders
• Chie Wach
• Anja Aalto
• James Smoker
• Matthew Nelson
• Annemarie Konzelman
• Isaac Pletcher
• Hannah Craven
• Stephen Holsteen

Selected publications

• Redeeming levity: Byron's Don Juan

  Hopps, G. R., 1 Nov 2023, The Cambridge companion to Byron. Bone, D. (ed.). 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 176-192 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Vision: building into the blue

  Hopps, G. R., 10 Feb 2022, Literature and religious experience: beyond belief and unbelief. Smith, M. J. & Spencer, C. D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 91-108 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The poems of Lord Byron - Don Juan: volumes IV & V

  Stabler, J. S. (ed.) & Hopps, G. R. (ed.), 30 Apr 2024, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 1225 p. (Longman annotated English poets )

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Byron and Nietzsche: nihilistic semiotics or truthful fiction?

  Hopps, G. R., 5 Mar 2020, Byron: reality, fiction and madness. Modrzewska, M. & Fengler, M. (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang, Vol. 30. (Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Negative capability and religious experience

  Hopps, G., 19 Mar 2020, In: International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. 20, 1, p. 74-94

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Music and theology: some reflections on ‘the listener’s share’

  Hopps, G., 2019, Annunciations: sacred music for the twenty-first century. Corbett, G. (ed.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, p. 337-352

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  The Religious Turn in Fleabag

  Hopps, G. R., 24 May 2019, Transpositions.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Being in uncertainties

  Hopps, G., 1 Jun 2018, In: Christianity and Literature. 67, 3, p. 559-567 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Pondus Amoris & Agapic Levity: Re-Evaluating the Lightness of Being

  Hopps, G. R., 2 May 2018, Christian Theology and the Transformation of Natural Religion: From Incarnation to Sacramentality: Essays in Honour of David Brown. Brewer, C. R. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters, (Studies in Philosophical Theology; vol. 64).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The extravagance of music

  Brown, D. & Hopps, G., 2018, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 325 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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