Chloe Church
College: College of Humanities
Discipline: Theology and Religion
Department: College of Humanities
I graduated from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2016 with a first-class degree in Theology and Religion and the JG Davies Memorial Prize for the highest-scoring undergraduate dissertation. In 2017, I began a Masters by Research with Biblical Studies Specialism at the University of Birmingham and was awarded a College of Arts and Humanities Masters-Level Scholarship for her research on the methods of visual biblical interpretation in the Lutheran and Counter- Reformations.
I am currently a doctoral student at the University of Exeter and University of Bristol, UK. My research is supported and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and focusses on the visual biblical interpretation of the Annunciation to Mary (Lk 1.26-38) in Counter-Reformation paintings. I am co-supervised by Associate Professor Louise Lawrence (Theology and Religion, University of Exeter), Dr Alexandra Hoare (History of Art, University of Bristol) and Professor Beth Williamson (History of Art, University of Bristol).
I am the 2020 recipient of the Society of Biblical Literature - De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History in the category of Material and Visual Culture. My paper, "Receiving the Word in Image: Federico Zuccaro's The Annunciation Broadcast By Prophets (1565) and the Reception History of the Bible," will be published in the Journal of the Bible and its Reception, and will be presented at the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting.
Published articles:
- "Receiving the Word in Image: Federico Zuccaro's The Annunciation Broadcast By Prophets (1565) and the Reception History of the Bible," Journal of the Bible and Its Reception (forthcoming)
- "'The Troublesome Subject: Images of Mary as Virgin and Mother" Question Journal 2 (2018) https://www.questionjournal.com/issue-2
