Dr Sarah Nicholson
- Lecturer in Old Testament/ Tanakh Studies (Theology & Religious Studies)
telephone:
01413304608
email:
Sarah.Nicholson@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 1/2, Level 3, Theology and Religious Studies, 4 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-176XResearch interests
Research interests
- Bible and literature
- Bible and popular culture
- Feminism and gender theory
- Prostitution, feminism and the bible
- Distance education
- Philosophy of education
- Theologies of the body
Biography
Sarah Nicholson came to Glasgow in 2000 after doing a PhD at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Peter Coxon. Her thesis was on the tragic vision in the Saul narrative and its postbiblical echoes in Alphonse de Lamartine and Thomas Hardy. She maintains an interest in the Saul narrative and its appearances in modern literature, and likes to balance this with a little feminism and popular culture, which expresses itself in conference papers on biblical themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and, more seriously, in a project on biblical prostitution narratives and their relationship to sex work in the material world.
Supervision
Areas for prospective postgraduate research might include:
- Areas for prospective postgraduate research might include:
- The tragic vision in the Old Testament/Tanakh
- Prostitution in the Old Testament/Tanakh
- Feminist approaches to biblical literature
- Queer approaches to biblical literature
- Studies in Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Ruth, Song of Songs
- Cybulska, Magdalene
Women in 21st century pop reimagining biblical themes. - Holdsworth, Lucinda
Divine Abuse in Modern Depictions of Lucifer - Vickery, Zachary Adam
The Vorlage and Translation Technique of the Septuagint Minor Prophets
Teaching
- Classical Hebrew language
- Bible as literature
- Methods of biblical interpretation
- Body and Belief
