Rebecca Rainof
B.A., Stanford University, M.A., Stanford University, M.A., Princeton University, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University.
Rebecca is graduate student in the Princeton University English Department studying the interplay between 19 th- and 20 th-century artistic and religious movements. Her current research focuses on Victorian literature and theology, and her dissertation “Gathering Substance: Purgatory, the Intermediate State, and Fictions of Maturity,” explores how Oxford Movement debates influenced British literature between 1830 and 1930. The works of John Henry Newman and George Eliot provide a central focus for her work. Her interests also include film studies and the influence of religion on popular art forms.
Rebecca comes to the DSPT on a grant supporting interdisciplinary teaching through the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton, and will be team teaching two courses: “Epics, Faith and Celluloid: The Bible and Film” and “The History of the Sermon: From Pulpit to Podcast.”
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