Editor’s note: In addition to interviewing Aaron Rosen, Dan Drage also reviewed the Home Alone Together exhibition hosted by Image. You may find his review here. Although Aaron Rosen is the Visual Arts Editor for the journal Image, he is also quite a…
[Editor’s Note: This series on The Saint John’s Bible comes to a close with a conversation with Fr Michael Patella, OSB, Chair of the Committee on the Illumination and Text of The Saint John’s Bible. Associate Editor Karen McClain Kiefer had an…
In late November 2018, Prof. Judith Wolfe, Professor of Philosophical Theology and Programme Director of ITIA’s M.Litt. in Theology & the Arts, was a guest on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time. In Our Time is one of BBC Radio 4’s most well-known programmes, featuring lively academic discussions…
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more than simply recount a heroic narrative; the epic, he argues, additionally offers an ‘encyclopedic quality, .…
Editor’s Note: Every August, the village of Pittenweem in Fife’s East Neuk hosts the Pittenweem Arts Festival. Transpositions Associate Editor Joel Mayward recently interviewed Barbara Fleming, one of the Festival’s board members (and St Mary’s postgrad secretary!) about the Festival’s history…
Editor’s Note: ITIA postgraduates and staff enthusiastically welcomed composer-theologian June Boyce-Tillman to our seminar this past Friday (2 November 2018). The Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE is currently Professor of Applied Music at The University of Winchester and an…
Transpositions is pleased to welcome Rebekah Lamb as Lecturer in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. We recently had the opportunity to chat with Rebekah about her background, rooted in Canada, and her future here across the Atlantic: Originally…
Editor’s Note: In our effort to explore the intersection between practical and theoretical expressions of theology and the arts, Transpositions features contemporary artists who infuse their work with theological reflection. In our latest installment, Senior Editor Brett H Speakman interviews singer-songwriter Dave…
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present a Q&A with ITIA Co-Founder Prof. Trevor Hart. In this interview, Hart discusses the beginnings of ITIA and its subsequent contributions, the importance of imagination for theology, as well as his own future…