Michael.Motia - UMass Boston

Michael Motia

Department:

Classics and Religious Studies

Title:

Lecturer

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Christianity, late antiquity, mysticism, asceticism, gender and sexuality, religion and literature

PhD, Harvard University

MDiv, Harvard Divinity School

BA, University of California at Santa Barbara

Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis, Divinations: Rereading Late Antiquity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
"Bluets of Late Antiquity: Polychromy and Christian Mysticism," Studies in Late Antiquity 6 vol. 2 (2022): 335–69.
Studies in Late Antiquity 6 vol. 2 (2022): 35–369.
“Dionysius and Gregory of Nyssa,” in The Oxford Handbook to Dionysius the Areopagite, ed. Mark Edwards, Dimitrios Pallis, and George Steiris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 109–21.
“‘Language is the author of all these emotions’: Greek Novels and Christian affect in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs,” Studia Patristica 115 (2021): 177–86
“Three Ways to Imitate Paul in Late Antiquity,” Harvard Theological Review 114, no. 1 (2021): 96–117.
“Gregory of Nyssa’s Shifting Scenes of Instruction,” Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 3 no. 1 (2020): 51–69.