1 MATTHEW D. C. LARSEN DEPT. OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES YALE UNIVERSITY 451 COLLEGE ST., NEW HAVEN, CT 06511 O: +1 (203) 432 4767 C: +1 (214) 403 5577 MATTHEW.LARSEN@YALE.EDU PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2017 2018, Department of Religious Studies, Lecturer (joint appointment at Yale Divinity School) EDUCATION Ph.D. Religious Studies,, 2017 M.Phil Religious Studies,, 2015 M.A. Religious Studies,, 2015 Th.M. New Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2011 B.A. Economics, Texas A&M University, 2006 PUBLICATIONS Books Gospels Before the Book. New York: Oxford University Press, in production. Peer-Reviewed Articles Unfinished Texts, Accidental Publication, and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 39 (2017): 362 87. Listening with the Body, Seeing through the Ears: Contextualizing Philo s Lecture Event in On the Contemplative Life. Journal for the Study of Judaism 47 (2016): 447 74. Addressing the Elephant that s Not in the Room: Comparing the Eucharistic Prayers in Didache 9 10 and the Last Supper tradition. Neotestamentica 45.2 (2011): 252 74. Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters Correcting the Gospel: Putting the Titles of the Gospels in Historical Literary Context. In Authority in Late Antique Historiography: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition. Edited by Mark D. Letteney and A.J. Berkovitz. London: Routledge Press, forthcoming [projected 2018]. The First Century Two Ways Catechesis and Hebrews 6:1 6 (co-authored with Michael Svigel).
2 Pages 477 96 in The Didache: A Missing Piece to the Puzzle. Edited by Clayton Jefford and Jonathan Draper. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. Conference Proceedings A Response to Neil G. Robertson s The Evil I. Pages 127 32 in The Meaning of Evil: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Atlantic Theological Conference. Edited by Susan Harris. Charlottetown, PEI: St. Peter Publication, 2015. Dictionary/Encyclopedia Entries Prisons in the New Testament and Greco-Roman Antiquity. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Edited by Gary S. Helft. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming. The Publication of the Synoptics and the Problem of Dependence and Dating. In The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels. Edited by Stephen Ahearne-Kroll. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Archives and Libraries. Pages 24 26 in Dictionary of the Bible in Ancient Media. Edited by Tom Thatcher, Chris Keith, Raymond F. Person, Jr., and Elsie R. Stern. London: T&T Clark, 2017. Manuscripts in Submission Why do Christians prefer the codex? Generic materiality and early gospel traditions. (co-authored with Mark D. Letteney) Journal of Early Christian Studies. Under review. Galen s Against Lycus: A New Translation of a Previously Untranslated Text of Galen. Submitted to Philip van der Eijk, editor of Cambridge Galen Translation series. Manuscripts in Preparation Early Christians and Incarceration: A Cultural History. Endorsed for publication by editors of the Synkrisis series with Press. For inquiries, contact Prof. Larry Welborn: welborn@fordham.edu. Transformation of Carceral Geography in the Early Christian Imagination. In preparation for submission to Journal of Religion. The Homilies of Asterius of Amasea and the Practice of the Everyday among 4 th and 5 th Christians in an Asia Minor City: A New Translation and Cultural-Historical Analysis. AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2017 Dissertation awarded with distinction by the Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, July 7, 2017.
3 2017 Recipient of funding to attend and present in ATTR Summer School on Media and Materiality at MF Norwegian School of Theology. Oslo, Norway. 2017 Recipient of Funding as Visiting Scholar in May and June of 2017 at Aarhus University. Aarhus, Denmark. 2013 Recipient of Funds from Department of Judaic Studies at Yale University to study in immersion Latin course at Institutum Liturgicum London. 2010 2011 Recipient of the Harold W. Hoehner New Testament Award and Scholarship INVITED TALKS 2018 Gender, the Carceral Imagination, and the Transforming of Space among Early Christian Communities: The Cases of Thecla and Perpetua. An invited talk to be given to the Boston Patristics Group. Cambridge, MA. April 19, 2018. 2017 The Gospel of Mark as Unfinished. An invited lecture given in the Department of Culture and Society. Aarhus University. Aarhus, Denmark. May 24, 2017. 2016 According to + Name = Author? Reimagining Gospel Authorship. Keynote Lecture at Harvard-Yale-Brown Day.. New Haven, CT. May 20. CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED 2018 Early Christians and Incarceration. A session at the North American Patristic Society. Chicago, IL. May 24 26, 2018. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2017 Book Burning, Book Production, and the Making of Bookish Religions. Paper presented in the Book History and Biblical Literatures section of the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Boston, MA. November 18 21. 2017 Diocletian s Book Burning and Making Christianity a Book Religion. Paper presented at the ATTR conference on Media and Materiality. MF Norwegian School of Theology. June 12 16.
4 2017 Gospel, textuality, and authority in ancient Christianity. Paper presented at the Theology as a Way of Reception conference. Sandbjerg, Denmark. June 1 4. 2016 Jerome and the Usefulness of the Pluriform Text: The Case of Matthew 21:28 32. Paper presented in the New Testament Textual Criticism section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio, TX. November 19 22. 2016 Correcting the Gospel: Putting the Titles of the Gospels in Context. Paper presented at the Beyond Authority: Transmission and Tradition conference at Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. March 21. 2015 Accidental Publication, Post-Publication Revision, Textual Fluidity, and the Implications for the Traditional Tools of Textual Criticism. Paper presented New Testament Textual Criticism section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Atlanta, GA. November 22. 2015 Authorship, Accidental Publication, Final Text, and the Invention of Gospel Authors. Paper presented at the Princeton Workshop on Book History and Religious Studies. Princeton, NJ. October 1. 2015 Genetic Criticism and the Proliferation of Gospel Literature. Paper presented at the Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History. Cambridge, MA. May 4. 2014 The Rest of Mark: The Marking as Unfinished and Finishing of Mark. Paper presented in the Synoptic Gospels section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego, CA. November 24. 2014 De Recta Ratione Audiendi: Comparing Philo s Lecture Event in De Vita Contemplativa with Other Elite Reading Communities in the Roman Empire. Paper presented at Philo and His Readers conference at. New Haven, CT. March 31. CAMPUS OR DEPARTMENTAL TALKS 2017 Early Christians and Incarceration : Transforming Space and the Carceral Imagination. Invited paper at the Yale Greco-Roman Lunch.. New Haven, CT. October 23. 2016 Comparing Textual Multiplicity at Qumran and Herculaneum. Invited presentation given to the Yale Interdisciplinary Workshop for the Study of Antiquity.. New Haven, CT. October 6.
5 2015 Accidental Publication and Archeologies of Gospel Authorship. Invited paper at the Yale Greco-Roman Lunch.. New Haven, CT. October 16. 2015 From gospel to Gospels: Textualization and the Creation of Author Figures. Invited talk to the Yale Interdisciplinary Workshop for the Study of Antiquity.. New Haven, CT. October 8 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Summer 2018 Spring 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017 Fall 2017 Fall 2017, Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Fall 2015 Spring 2014 Fall 2013 From Jesus to Muhammad (Instructor of Record; ) Practice and Devotion in Early Christianity (Instructor of Record [Co-teaching with Andrew McGowan]; Yale Divinity School) Elementary New Testament Greek II (Instructor of Record; Yale Divinity School) The New Testament in History and Culture (Instructor of Record; ) Elementary New Testament Greek I (Instructor of Record; Yale Divinity School) Brief Introduction to the New Testament (Instructor of Record; Online Education of Deacons for Episcopal Province of New England) Sex and the Bible (Teaching Fellow for Dale Martin) Anglican Prayer Book Traditions (Teaching Fellow for Andrew McGowan; Yale Divinity School) A Cultural Introduction to Ancient Rome (Teaching Fellow for Kirk Freudenburg; Department of Classics at ) Introduction to New Testament, Part I (Teaching Fellow for Michal Beth Dinkler and Harold Attridge; Yale Divinity School) DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Spring 2017 Member of Religious Studies Graduate Advisory Committee EXTRACURRICULAR SERVICE
6 2017 Member of Steering Committee of Book History Section in the Society of Biblical Literature. 2013 2017 Founder and Chair of the Critical Theory Reading Group in New Haven, CT 2016 Participant in Yale Diversity and Inclusion Workshop LANGUAGES (* = able to teach language) English (native), Spanish (conversational), Greek (Classical and Koine)*, Coptic*, Biblical Hebrew*, Latin (Classical, Medieval, and Ecclesiastical)*, Italian (reading with dictionary), German (reading with dictionary), French (reading with dictionary) MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion (2011 ), Society of Biblical Literature (2009 ), North American Patristic Society (2017 ), American Historical Association (2017 ) REFERENCES Andrew B. McGowan AnneMarie Luijendijk 409 Prospect Street 1879 Hall, Princeton University New Haven, CT 06511 Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: +1 (203) 432 9290 Phone: +1 (609) 258-0931 Email: andrew.b.mcgowan@yale.edu Email: aluijend@princeton.edu Adela Yarbro Collins Stephen J. Davis 409 Prospect Street 261 Park Street New Haven, CT 06511 New Haven, CT 06511 Phone: +1 (203) 432 5303 Phone: +1 (203) 432-1298 Email: adela.collins@yale.edu Email: stephen.davis@yale.edu René Falkenberg Jennifer W. Knust Jens Chr. Skous Vej 3 (1451-327) 745 Commonwealth Avenue DK-8000 Aarhus C Boston, MA 02215 Phone: +45 87 16 28 74 Phone: +1 (617) 358 4222 Email: teorf@cas.au.dk Email: jknust@bu.edu Harold W. Attridge Kathryn Lofton 409 Prospect Street 451 College Street New Haven, CT 06511 New Haven, CT 06511 Phone: +1 (203) 432-5372 Phone: +1 (203) 432-0828 Email: harold.attridge@yale.edu Email: kathryn.lofton@yale.edu