Dr Anna Fisk
- Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies (Theology & Religious Studies)
email: Anna.Fisk@glasgow.ac.uk
Theology & Religious Studies, No 4 The Square, University of Glasgow
Research interests
My principal research field is feminist studies in religion / feminist theology in the intersection of religion with culture. Much of my work uses autoethnographic methods, bringing critical life-writing practice into scholarship.
I am editorial assistant on the journal Literature and Theology, and convenor of the Ecotheologies panel of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture.
I supervise postgraduate research projects in practical theology.
Publications
2019
Fisk, A. (2019) “Stitch for stitch, you are remembering”: knitting and crochet as material memorialization. Material Religion, 15(5), pp. 553-576. (doi: 10.1080/17432200.2019.1676621)
2017
Fisk, A. (2017) 'So that you’ve got something for yourself': knitting and implicit spirituality. In: Doggett, L. and Arat, A. (eds.) Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion. Series: Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series in association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 133-148. ISBN 9781138092327
Fisk, A. (2017) Appropriating, romanticising and reimagining: pagan engagements with indigenous animism. In: Rountree, K. (ed.) Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Modern Paganism. Series: Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY. ISBN 9781137570406 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56200-5)
Fisk, A. (2017) Prayer shawl ministries and women’s theological imagination. Theology and Sexuality, 23(3), pp. 265-267. (doi: 10.1080/13558358.2017.1367126)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2017) Stood weeping outside the tomb: dis(re)membering Mary Magdalene. In: Sherwood, Y. (ed.) Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198722618 (doi:10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0009)
Fisk, A. (2017) Theologies of evil. In: Hawthorne, S. M. (ed.) Gender: God. Series: Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks. Macmillan. ISBN 9780028663173
2015
Fisk, A. (2015) Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius; by Alison E. Jasper. Literature and Theology, 29(2), pp. 241-244. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frv003)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2015) Encounters in feminist revisioning. Biblical Interpretation, 23(1), pp. 36-59. (doi: 10.1163/15685152-00231p02)
2014
Gunn, V. and Fisk, A. (2014) Considering Teaching Excellence in Higher Education 2007-2013. Project Report. Higher Education Academy, York.
Fisk, A. (2014) Sex, Sin, and Our Selves: Encounters in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Women’s Literature. Pickwick Publications: Eugene. ISBN 9781625640680
Fisk, A. (2014) Sisterhood in the wilderness: biblical paradigms and feminist identity politics in teadings of Hagar and Sarah. In: Adam, A.K.M. and Tongue, S. (eds.) Looking Through a Glass Bible: Postdisciplinary Biblical Interpretations from the Glasgow School. Series: Biblical interpretation series (125). Brill: Leiden, pp. 113-137. ISBN 9789004259072
Fisk, A. and Tongue, S. (2014) Gender: literature. In: Klauck, H.-J., Allison, D. C., Leppin, V., Seow, C.L., Spieckermann, H., Walfish, B., Ziolkowski, E. J. and Helmer, C. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110183788
2013
Fisk, A. (2013) Bible and literature, by Alison M. Jack. Journal of Adult Theological Education, 10(2), pp. 181-183. (doi: 10.1179/1740714114Z.00000000023)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2013) Feminist hermeneutics: literature. In: Klauck, H.-J., Allison, D. C., Leppin, V., Seow, C.L., Spieckermann, H., Walfish, B., Ziolkowski, E. J. and Helmer, C. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110183788
Fisk, A. (2013) Fertility: literature. In: Klauck, H.-J., Allison, D. C., Leppin, V., Seow, C.L., Spieckermann, H., Walfish, B., Ziolkowski, E. J. and Helmer, C. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110183788
Fisk, A. (2013) Patchwork: on perseverance, the aesthetics of nostalgia, and reckless knitting. [Website]
Gunn, V. and Fisk, A. (2013) Considering Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: 2007-2013: A Literature Review Since the CHERI Report 2007. Project Report. Higher Education Academy, York, UK.
2012
Fisk, A. (2012) 'To make, and make again': feminism, craft and spirituality. Feminist Theology, 20(2), pp. 160-174. (doi: 10.1177/0966735011425302)
Fisk, A. (2012) Feminism and Christianity: Questions and Answers in the Third-Wave, by Caryn D. Riswold. Journal of Gender Studies, 21(1), pp. 111-112. (doi: 10.1080/09589236.2012.636644)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2012) Through Us, With Us, In Us: relational theologies in the twenty-first century, ed. Lisa Isherwood and Elaine Bellchambers. Theology and Sexuality, 18(2), pp. 144-146. (doi: 10.1179/1355835813Z.00000000013)[Book Review]
2011
Fisk, A. (2011) 'Not simple, not pure': revisioning of mythical wicked women in the stories of Sara Maitland. Women: A Cultural Review, 22(1), pp. 15-28. (doi: 10.1080/09574042.2011.542364)
2010
Fisk, A. (2010) 'Wholly aflame': erotic asceticism in the work of Sara Maitland. Theology and Sexuality, 16(1), pp. 5-18. (doi: 10.1558/tse.v16i1.5)
2009
Fisk, A. (2009) Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred, edited by Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. Sawyer. Literature and Theology, 23(3), pp. 368-370. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frp027)[Book Review]
Articles
Fisk, A. (2019) “Stitch for stitch, you are remembering”: knitting and crochet as material memorialization. Material Religion, 15(5), pp. 553-576. (doi: 10.1080/17432200.2019.1676621)
Fisk, A. (2015) Encounters in feminist revisioning. Biblical Interpretation, 23(1), pp. 36-59. (doi: 10.1163/15685152-00231p02)
Fisk, A. (2012) 'To make, and make again': feminism, craft and spirituality. Feminist Theology, 20(2), pp. 160-174. (doi: 10.1177/0966735011425302)
Fisk, A. (2011) 'Not simple, not pure': revisioning of mythical wicked women in the stories of Sara Maitland. Women: A Cultural Review, 22(1), pp. 15-28. (doi: 10.1080/09574042.2011.542364)
Fisk, A. (2010) 'Wholly aflame': erotic asceticism in the work of Sara Maitland. Theology and Sexuality, 16(1), pp. 5-18. (doi: 10.1558/tse.v16i1.5)
Books
Fisk, A. (2014) Sex, Sin, and Our Selves: Encounters in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Women’s Literature. Pickwick Publications: Eugene. ISBN 9781625640680
Book Sections
Fisk, A. (2017) 'So that you’ve got something for yourself': knitting and implicit spirituality. In: Doggett, L. and Arat, A. (eds.) Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion. Series: Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series in association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 133-148. ISBN 9781138092327
Fisk, A. (2017) Appropriating, romanticising and reimagining: pagan engagements with indigenous animism. In: Rountree, K. (ed.) Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Modern Paganism. Series: Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY. ISBN 9781137570406 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56200-5)
Fisk, A. (2017) Stood weeping outside the tomb: dis(re)membering Mary Magdalene. In: Sherwood, Y. (ed.) Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198722618 (doi:10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0009)
Fisk, A. (2017) Theologies of evil. In: Hawthorne, S. M. (ed.) Gender: God. Series: Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks. Macmillan. ISBN 9780028663173
Fisk, A. (2014) Sisterhood in the wilderness: biblical paradigms and feminist identity politics in teadings of Hagar and Sarah. In: Adam, A.K.M. and Tongue, S. (eds.) Looking Through a Glass Bible: Postdisciplinary Biblical Interpretations from the Glasgow School. Series: Biblical interpretation series (125). Brill: Leiden, pp. 113-137. ISBN 9789004259072
Fisk, A. and Tongue, S. (2014) Gender: literature. In: Klauck, H.-J., Allison, D. C., Leppin, V., Seow, C.L., Spieckermann, H., Walfish, B., Ziolkowski, E. J. and Helmer, C. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110183788
Fisk, A. (2013) Feminist hermeneutics: literature. In: Klauck, H.-J., Allison, D. C., Leppin, V., Seow, C.L., Spieckermann, H., Walfish, B., Ziolkowski, E. J. and Helmer, C. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110183788
Fisk, A. (2013) Fertility: literature. In: Klauck, H.-J., Allison, D. C., Leppin, V., Seow, C.L., Spieckermann, H., Walfish, B., Ziolkowski, E. J. and Helmer, C. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110183788
Book Reviews
Fisk, A. (2017) Prayer shawl ministries and women’s theological imagination. Theology and Sexuality, 23(3), pp. 265-267. (doi: 10.1080/13558358.2017.1367126)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2015) Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius; by Alison E. Jasper. Literature and Theology, 29(2), pp. 241-244. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frv003)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2013) Bible and literature, by Alison M. Jack. Journal of Adult Theological Education, 10(2), pp. 181-183. (doi: 10.1179/1740714114Z.00000000023)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2012) Feminism and Christianity: Questions and Answers in the Third-Wave, by Caryn D. Riswold. Journal of Gender Studies, 21(1), pp. 111-112. (doi: 10.1080/09589236.2012.636644)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2012) Through Us, With Us, In Us: relational theologies in the twenty-first century, ed. Lisa Isherwood and Elaine Bellchambers. Theology and Sexuality, 18(2), pp. 144-146. (doi: 10.1179/1355835813Z.00000000013)[Book Review]
Fisk, A. (2009) Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred, edited by Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. Sawyer. Literature and Theology, 23(3), pp. 368-370. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frp027)[Book Review]
Research Reports or Papers
Gunn, V. and Fisk, A. (2014) Considering Teaching Excellence in Higher Education 2007-2013. Project Report. Higher Education Academy, York.
Gunn, V. and Fisk, A. (2013) Considering Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: 2007-2013: A Literature Review Since the CHERI Report 2007. Project Report. Higher Education Academy, York, UK.
Website
Fisk, A. (2013) Patchwork: on perseverance, the aesthetics of nostalgia, and reckless knitting. [Website]
Supervision
- Paxton, Steven
Redemption, Reconciliation and Development: The evolving role and mission of Pentecostal Churches in East Africa.