Constance M. Furey Curriculum Vitae Department of Religious Studies Sycamore 230 Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (812) 855-6678 cfurey@indiana.edu Education University of Chicago, Ph.D., approved with distinction, Fall 2000. University of Chicago, M.A. in Religion, 1993. Brown University, B.A. magna cum laude, with Honors in Religious Studies, 1991. Academic Positions Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, and Adjunct in the Department of History, Indiana University (2006-present) Associate Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University (2011-present). Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor, Women s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School (2005-2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University (2000-2006). Grants and Honors Innovate Indiana seed money for Humanistic Study of Innovation Initiative, 2010 College Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Indiana University, 2009 Women s Studies in Religion Program Fellowship, Harvard University, 2005-2006 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2004, 2009 NEH Summer Stipend, 2002. Summer Faculty Fellowships, Indiana University, 2001, 2004, 2007. Lilly Endowment Fellowship for Future Theological Educators, 1997-98. Junior Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, 1996-97. Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1992-96. Current Projects Crowded Interiors: Sacred Selves and Relationality in English Renaissance Poetry Making Mistakes: Martyrdom and the Theological Sociology of Error Under revision. Disturbing Familiarity: Transcendence and the Question of Critique Submitted for a special issue of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies on Surface Reading and the State of Critique Publications Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters (Cambridge University Press, 2006; reissued digitally and in paperback, 2008) Body, Society, and Subjectivity in Religious Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80.1 (2012) (25 pages) Sexuality The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism, ed. Amy Hollywood and Patricia Beckman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) (20 pgs.) Besides. 15 March 2012. The Immanent Frame <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/03/15/besides/> Intimate Virtue: Puritan Marriage and Devotional Poetry. The Journal of Medieval and Early
Vita: Constance Furey, page 2 Modern Studies. 42.1. Spring 2012 (30 pages) Bound by Likeness: Marital Friendship in Early Modern Humanism Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Daniel Lochman, Maritere López, and Lorna Hutson. Burlington: Ashgate Press, 2011 (30 pages). The Religion of Literature, online forum of the Martin Marty Center, The University of Chicago. June, 2010. Lancie mistiche e teorie di sessualità, trans. Stephanie Knauss. Religio, Sessualità, Genere. Ed. Stephanie Knauss and Antonio Autiero. Bologna, 2010. "Teaching the History of Christianity: Critical Themes and Challenges." Patricia O'Connell Killen, Madeline Duntley, Constance Furey, W. Clark Gilpin, and Horace E. Six- Means. Teaching Theology and Religion 12/3 (July 2009): 258-286. Invective and Discernment in Martin Luther, D. Erasmus, and Thomas More Luther Digest 16 (2008). Troubling Presence: Abundant History and Heterology: A Response to Robert Orsi s Abundant History: Marian Apparitions as Alternative Modernity Historically Speaking (December 2008) (4000 words) Utopian History Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 20.4 (2008), 385-398. The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer Harvard Theological Review, 99.4 (Fall 2006), 469-86. Utopia of Desire: Visions of the Ideal in Aemilia Lanyer s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, The Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 36.3 (Fall 2006), 561-584. Invective and Discernment in Luther, Erasmus, and More Harvard Theological Review (October, 2005), 469-88. Intellects Inflamed in Christ : Women and Spiritualized Scholarship in Renaissance Christianity Journal of Religion 84.1 (2004). The Communication of Friendship: Gasparo Contarini s Letters to Hermits at Camaldoli Church History 72.1 (2003). Book Reviews Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Habits of Compassion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Hanan Yoran, Between Utopia and Dystopia: Thomas More, Erasmus and the Humanist Republic of Letters (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010). Frances Dolan, Whores of Babylon, Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Issued in paperback with a new preface by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), in Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Ulrike Strasser, State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), in History of Religions. Carol Thysell, The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian (Oxford University Press, 2000), in Journal of Religion, January 2003. Brad Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard University Press, 1999), for Journal of Religion October 2003. Presentations Using Reason to Find the Limits of Reason: Pascal on Faith. Pascal at 350 panel presentation. Indiana University (April 2012). Disturbing Familiarity: Literal Reading and the Question of Transcendence. Conference on Surface, Symptom, and the State of Critique at the University of Texas, Austin (February 2012).
Vita: Constance Furey, page 3 Chosenness and Exceptionalism Panel presentation on Who are the Real Chosen People?, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University (March 2012). Why Utopia is Still Relevant. Panel presentation at "'I want to go to there': Utopian Thinking and City Planning" Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne (January 2012). Probability in Early Modern Religious Thought. Included panel discussion, comment, and response. From Exemplarity to Probability Sorbonne, Paris-3 (June 2011). The Real, the Ideal, and Utopian Scholarship. Closing remarks at Religious Studies Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University (February 2012). Body, Society, and Religious Subjectivity. Stanford University (December 2010). Also presented to Dept. of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Peter Brown s Body and Society, and the Study of Religious Subjectivity. American Academy of Religion (October 2010). Are You Alone Wise? American Society of Church History (January 2011). Interpreting Friendship. Master Class in the Art of Interpretation, Indiana University (October 2010). A Historian By Any Other Name. Historical Teaching and Practice Seminar, Indiana University (Sept. 2010). Political Resistance and the Right to Conscience in Women s Religious and Literary Writing. Co-organized and jointly led workshop at Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord Conference, University of Maryland (November 2009). Sexuality and Eroticism in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Mysticism. Gender Studies Workshop, The University of Chicago Divinity School (May 2008). Erasmus, More, and the Intimacy of Error, invited presentation to Early Modern Reading Group, University of London, London, February 2009. Also presented to the Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy colloquium. Indiana University (April 2009). Excluding all others: Religious Affiliations and the Common Good, invited keynote at graduate student conference: From Res Publica to the Republic of Letters: The Common Good in Transition and Translation, Notre Dame (October 2008). Also presented to the Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy colloquium, Indiana University (December 2008). Whither Renaissance Studies? Panel participant, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia (November 2008) Mystical Spears and Sexual Theories Pre-modern Sex and Sexuality Panel, American Academy of Religion, Chicago (November 2008) Teaching the History of Christianity, Panel Participant, American Academy of Religion, Chicago (November 2008). Utopian History, North American Association for the Study of Religion, San Diego (November 2007) The World that Love Creates: Gender and Genre in Renaissance Christianity. The Divinity School at Harvard University (February 2006); also presented at Brown University (April 2006). The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in Devotional Poetry. Vanderbilt University (January 2006). Friendship, Gender, and Immortality, Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco (April 2006) Temporal Boundaries and Topical Allusions in Aemelia Lanyer s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, San Antonio (November 2005) Sanctifying Praise in Early Modern Christianity, American Society of Church History, Seattle (January 2005) One Who Calls Another Fool is Liable to the Fires of Gehenna : Insult and Exposure in Early Modern Catholic Polemics, Track I Seminar, Indiana University (November 2004) Insult and Invective in Early Modern Catholic Polemics, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto (October 2004) The Suffering Scholar and the Power of Praise, Renaissance Society of America, New York City (April 2004)
Vita: Constance Furey, page 4 Intellectual Status and Religious Charisma in Renaissance Italy, American Society of Church History, Chicago (January 2003) Renewing the Mind : Changing Models of Scholarly Piety in Erasmus, More, and Italian spirituali, American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado (November 2001) Sacred Studies, Devotional Practices, and Scholars in Early Modern Catholicism, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado (October 2001) Conversation and the piety of the literati: Gasparo Contarini s letters, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (November 2000). Weber, Gramsci, and the Intellectual History of Christianity, American Academy of Religion Conference, Boston, MA (November, 1999). Esteemed for Faith and Learning : A 16 th -century debate about Intellectuals, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto (October, 1998). Vittoria Colonna and Anti-Intellectualism in Sixteenth-Century Italy, Midwest American Academy of Religion Conference, Chicago, IL (March, 1998). Organizer and participant in panel, Authors and Women: The Intersection of Status, Gender, and Religious Identity in Pre-Modern Christianity, History of Women Religious Conference, Chicago, IL (June, 1998). Service Departmental Associate Chair, IU Dept. of Religious Studies, August 2011-present Director of Undergraduate Studies, IU Department of Religious Studies, August 2003-July 2005, July 2010-2011. Committee memberships in the IU Department of Religious Studies: Chair, Early Christianity Search, Fall 2012-Spring 2013; Chaired tenure review committee for Nancy Levene (2007); Member, Search Committee for Chair (2011); position in Orthodox Christianity (2010); Hebrew Bible (2004); and Religious Ethics (2003); Salary and Review Committee, 2002-2003; Preus Memorial Symposium Committee, 2001-2002; Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2000-2001, 2006-08; Committee on Community and Engagement, 2009- present. Respondent, Religious Studies Graduate Student Conference, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013. Initiated and aided in preparation for Richard Miller s nomination for Provost Professorship (2012). Initiated nomination for Richard Nance s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2012). College Co-organizer and member of Themester: Good Behavior/Bad Behavior (2011-2012). Organizer, Film Series at IU Cinema: Mystery and Mastery: The Religion of Film Panelist, The Future of the Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, March 2010. Director, Renaissance Studies Program at Indiana University 2006-2009. Organizer, Religious Renaissance conference, Indiana University, April 2009, and Renaissance Past(s) and Future conference, Indiana University, September 2008. Steering committee for Renaissance Studies Program at Indiana University, 2002-2005 Member, The College Tenure Committee, 2005-2007. Member, Strategic Planning Committee for Graduate Studies, 2008. Member, College of Arts and Humanities Institute Fellowship Application Committee, 2007-2008 Member, College of Arts and Humanities Institute Steering Committee, 2007-present; selection committee for CAHI Director, 2010, 2012. Steering committee for new major in West European Studies at Indiana University, Spring, 2005. Steering committee for inaugural Eighteenth Century Studies Workshop, Signs of the Self at Indiana University, May 2002.
Vita: Constance Furey, page 5 FASE mentor for first-generation, low-income, and minority students at Indiana University, 2001-2006. Panelist, Collins Living-Learning Center Freshman Orientation Program, 2002. Presenter, Collins Living-Learning Center Speaker Series, 2007. University Co-PI of Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation. Nominated of Patten Lecturer, Sarah Hrdy (on campus April 2013). Organizer, Always Already: Innovation and Conservation in the Academy. Indiana University, October 2010 Co-organizer of roundtable on interdisciplinarity for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University, October 23, 2009. Reviewed applications for Wells Scholarship freshman classes of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. Member, Vice President for Research Review Committee for the American Indiana Studies Research Institute Member, IU Dissertation Fellowships Selection Committee, 2005. Indiana Overview, Office of Admissions, 2001, 2008. Profession Co-organizer of new AAR consultation, Religion in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean Reviewer of manuscripts: NYU Press; Journal of Religion, Cambridge University Press, American Historical Review, Harvard Theological Review. Member of Council for the American Society of Church History, class of 2008. Review Panelist for NEH Summer Stipends, 2005-2007. Courses Taught at Indiana University Undergraduate Original Sin Introduction to Christianity Introduction to Religion The Body and the Word: Ritual and Belief in Early Modern Christianity Advanced Undergraduate/Graduate Religion and Literature Christianity 400-1500 Christianity 1500-2000 Religion and Modernity: The Quest for Certainty Catholic Controversies: Making Modern Catholicism 1500-present Prophecy, Celibacy, Mysticism, and Witchcraft: Gender in the Reformation Honors College Courses Bible, Body, and Religious Reformation Prophecy, Celibacy, Mysticism, and Witchcraft: Gender in the Reformation Graduate Seminars The Medieval Neighbor Topics in Early Modern Christianity Religion, Gender, and Politics in Early Modern Christianity Introduction to the Study of Religion
Vita: Constance Furey, page 6 Memberships American Academy of Religion American Society of Church History Society for the Study of Early Modern Women July 2013