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Bradley K. Storin

Bradley K. Storin

 

Associate Professor

Religious Studies Section Head and Undergraduate Advisor

Ph.D.: Religious Studies, Indiana University (2012)

Phone: 225-578-2277
Email: bstorin@lsu.edu 
Office: 113 Coates

Biography

Bradley K. Storin grew up in Austin, Texas and received a B.A. in Religious Studies and Classics from the University of Texas (2003). He also received an M.T.S. from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (2005) and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Indiana University (2012).

Areas of Interest

Professor Storin specializes in the study of Christianity in late antiquity (ca. 100-600 C.E.) with specific interest in issues of religious violence, identity, community, and literary genre.

Courses Offered

  • REL 1005 New Testament
  • REL 3000 Christianity
  • REL 4301 Theories of Religion
  • REL 4505 The Rise of Christianity
  • REL 4507 Christian Monasticism
  • HNRS 2030 Holy Violence in Early Christianity
  • HNRS 2030 The Lives of Saints

Awards and Honors

  • Recipient of 2019 Manship Summer Research Fellowship
  • Recipient of 2019 HSS International Travel Grant
  • Recipient of 2017 Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award
  • Recipient of 2016 LSU HSS Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member
  • Recipient of the 2015 Council on Research Summer Stipend

 

Selected Publications

Monographs, Edited Volumes, and Book-Length Translations

  • Ellen Muehlberger and Bradley K. Storin, eds., New Approaches to Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of David Brakke (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, forthcoming)
  • The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
  • Bradley K. Storin, Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography, Christianity in Late Antiquity 6 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)
  • Bradley K. Storin, Gregory of Nazianzus’s Letter Collection: The Complete Translation, Christianity in Late Antiquity 7 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019) 
  • Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts, eds., Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Bradley K. Storin, “Christian Thought in Political, Social, and Institutional Contexts from Constantine to Theodosius II,” in The Cambridge History of Early Christian Thought, ed. Lewis O. Ayres (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, “Kirchenväter: Briefschreiber im 4./5. Jh. Golden age of letter-writing: Gregor von Nazianz,” in Handbuch Brief: Antike, ed. Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Alfons Fürst (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming in 2023)   
  • Bradley K. Storin, “Monastic Identity and Violence in Callinicus’ Life of Hypatius.” Studia Patristica 129 (2021): 155-67
  • Bradley K. Storin, “Autohagiobiography: Gregory of Nazianzus among His Biographers,” Studies in Late Antiquity 1 (2017): 254-81
  • Bradley K. Storin, “Reconsidering Gregory of Nazianzus’ Letter Collection,” Studia Patristica 95 (2017): 291-302
  • Bradley K. Storin, "The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nazianzus,” in Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, eds. Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 81-101
  • Bradley K. Storin, with Cristiana Sogno and Edward J. Watts, “Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity,” in Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, eds. Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 1-12
  • Bradley K. Storin, “In a Silent Way: Asceticism and Literature in the Rehabilitation of Gregory of Nazianzus,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 19 (2011): 225-57

 

Translations in Anthologies and Sourcebooks

  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Lactantius, On the Death of the Persecutors 43-48,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 18.5-17,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Zacharias, Life of Paralius,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Conciliar Canons,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory of Nazianzus, Poem 2.1.12.25-48, 136-810,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 43. 1, 37-38, 43-53, 60-70, 77-80,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Life of Syncletica,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Andrew Radde-Gallwitz and Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Origen, Exhortation to Martyrdom,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Maximus of Turin, Sermons 105-108,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “John Chrysostom, Oration 1 against the Jews,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Callinicus, Life of Hypatius,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History 7,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Jacob of Serugh, On the Fall of the Idols,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023)
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Leo of Rome, Tome,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 36-48
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Henotikon of 482,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 187-90
  • Mark DelCogliano and Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Justinian, On the Right Faith," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 317-40
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Second Henotikon,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 393-97
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Tatian, Oration to the Greeks 4-7,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 79-83
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Origen, On First Principles 2.6,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 187-96
  • Mark DelCogliano and Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Apollinarius of Laodicea, Selected Letters,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 308-21
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Faith and the Incarnation,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 322-26
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Body’s Union with the Divinity in Christ,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 327-32
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 388-98
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.10-11,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 399-402
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Ibas, Letter to Maris,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 726-30
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor 1.1-4, 13,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 3-12
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Cyril of Jerusalem, Prologue and Mystical Catecheses,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 217-43
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory the Wonderworker, Address to Origen 5-9,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 29-40
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “John Chrysostom, Baptismal Instructions,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 244-72
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Ptolemy, Letter to Flora,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 3-10
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles Preface and 1.1-1.3,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 71-105
  • Bradley K. Storin, trans., “Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.1-1.1.3,” in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 294-301

 

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Bradley K. Storin, “Athanasian Creed,” “Diocese, “Homoeans,” and “Metropolitan,” in The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson, 2 vols. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 1:170, 1:485, 1:738, 2:1144
  • Bradley K. Storin, “Basil of Amasea,” “Gregory of Nazianzus,” and “Macrina the Younger,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Orlin, with Lisbeth S. Fried, Jennifer Wright Knust, Michael L. Satlow, and Michael E. Pregill (London: Routledge, 2016), 134, 375-76, 556

 

Book Reviews

  • Bradley K. Storin, Review of Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis by Michael Motia, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), in Journal of Late Antiquity (forthcoming in 2022)
  • Bradley K. Storin, Review of Exploring Gregory of Nyssa. Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies by Anna Marmodoro and Neil B. McLynn (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), SEHEPUNKTE - Review Journal for History 20.3 (2020), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2020/03/32896.html
  • Bradley K. Storin, Review of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus by Andrew Hofer, in The Catholic Historical Review, 101 (2015): 598-99
  • Bradley K. Storin, Review of Re-Reading Gregory of Nazianzus: Essays on History, Theology, and Culture by Christopher A. Beeley (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press), 2012, in Journal of Early Christian Studies 21 (2013): 473-75
  • Bradley K. Storin, Review of Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 49 (Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.12.63

 

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