Person

Hannah Strømmen

Researcher

  • Bible, Politics and Culture
  • Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

Contact information

E-mail hannah.strommenctr.luse

Phone +46 46 222 90 59

Room LUX:B318

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Internal post code 30

A biblical scholar specialising in biblical reception history, I came to Lund in 2022 to take up a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship. Before that, I was Reader in Biblical Studies at the University of Chichester, UK.

My teaching and research focus on contemporary uses and interpretations of the Bible in philosophy, literature, and politics. My first book was on Jacques Derrida, animal studies, and the Bible (Biblical Animality after Jacques Derrida, SBL Press, 2018). More recently, I have been researching Bible-use in the contemporary European far right. With Ulrich Schmiedel I wrote The Claim to Christianity: Responding to the Far Right(SCM Press, 2020), and my monograph, The Bibles of the Far Right is due to be published in 2024 (Oxford University Press).

Currently, I am leading a Wallenberg-funded project, 'Scripture and Secularism', with a team of postdocs and a doctoral student, exploring the relationship between the Bible and secularization.

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I'm a member of the editorial collective of the Political Theology​journal, and am on the editorial board of The Bible and Critical Theory journal, as well as Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift.

I'm on the editorial board for the SBL monograph series The Bible and its Reception, and The Yearbook of Contextual Biblical Interpretation.

I am co-chair of the Reading, Theory, and Poetics research group (European Association of Biblical Studies), and on the steering committee for the Reading, Theory, and the Bible program unit (Society of Biblical Literature) as well as the Use, Influence and Impact of the Bible program unit (Society of Biblical Literature).

In addition to my WAF-funded 'Scripture and Secularism' project, I am part of the research programme, At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Present and Past.

With Siobhán Jolley, I run a Methods of Biblical Reception group that meets regularly online. Get in touch if you want to join and be on the mailing list.

Hannah Strømmen

Researcher

  • Bible, Politics and Culture
  • Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

Contact information

E-mail hannah.strommenctr.luse

Phone +46 46 222 90 59

Room LUX:B318

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Internal post code 30

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