Dr. Angela Kim HarkinsAssociate Professor of Religious Studies |
o: Donnarumma Hall Rm 345 |
Dr. Angela Kim Harkins received her B.A. in Theology, magna cum laude, from Loyola University of Chicago (1994) and completed a M.A. in Theology at the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in biblical languages (1997). After a year abroad at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Fulbright, 1997-1998), she completed her Ph.D. in Theology at the University of Notre Dame in the area Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity (2003). Harkins is the co-chair of the Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity section of the Society of Biblical Literature. Her monograph on religious experience and the Hodayot is published in the series Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012) and is entitled "Reading with an 'I' to the Heavens." In this study, she examines how the ritual reenactment of emotion can assist in generating the necessary predisposition for a religious experience. Her current research is on the Odes of Solomon.
Dr. Angela Kim Harkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and in the Center for Judaic Studies where she has been teaching since 2006. She is a member of the National Jesuit Advisory Board on Interreligious Dialogue and Relations (2010-present). In 2008, she was appointed as the Fairfield University's Lilly Program Campus Representative. Harkins was selected as a participant in the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Workshop 2009-2010.