Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

Principal and Dean, and Professor of Theology, St. Stephen’s College, University of Alberta (2018–)
Affiliate Member, School of Religious Studies, McGill University (2017–)
Lecturer, Concordia University of Edmonton and The King’s University (2017–2018)
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University (2014–2017)
CERC Research Affiliate, University of British Columbia (2014–2015)
FRQSC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McGill University (2012–2014)

Education

Publications

Resurrection in Paul: Cognition, Metaphor, and Transformation. ECL 19. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.
Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by Frederick S. Tappenden and Carly Daniel-Hughes. Forward by Gregory Nagy. Montreal, QC: McGill University Library and Archives, 2017.
“Embodiment, Folk Dualism, and the Convergence of Cosmology and Anthropology in Paul’s Resurrection Ideals.” Biblical Interpretation 23 (2015): 428–55.
“On the Difficulty of Molding a Rock: The Negotiation of Peter’s Reputation in Early Christian Memory.” Pages 263–87 in Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Conversation with Barry Schwartz. Edited by Tom Thatcher. SemeiaSt 78. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2014.
“Luke and Paul in Dialogue: Ritual Meals and Risen Bodies as Instances of Conceptual Blending.” Pages 203–28 in Resurrection of the Dead: Biblical Traditions in Dialogue. Edited by Geert Van Oyen and Tom Shepherd. BETL 249. Louven: Peeters, 2012.
“Aural-Performance, Conceptual Blending, and Intertextuality: The (Non-)Use of Scripture in Luke 24.45–48.” Pages 180–200 in Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels Volume 3: The Gospel of Luke. Edited by Thomas R. Hatina. LNTS 376. London: T&T Clark, 2010.

Research Grants and Awards

Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise (2017)
SSHRC Connection Grant (2015), “Religion in the Text and on the Ground: The Convergence of Historiography and Ethnography in Religious Studies.” Frederick S. Tappenden (PI), Edward Slingerland, and Torrance J. Kirby
SSHRC Connection Grant (2014), “Coming Back to Life: Performance, Memory, and Cognition in the Ancient Mediterranean.” Frederick S. Tappenden (co-PI), Ellen Aitken (co-PI), Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Amy Buckland
FRQSC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2012), “Embodying Hermeneutics: Early Christian Creativity and the Post-Pauline Construction of Hope”
Founders Prize, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (2011)

Academic Service to Professional Organisations

Co-Chair, SBL Program Unit ‘Religious Experience in Antiquity’ (2017–); steering committee (2016–)
Steering Committee, SBL Program Unit ‘Mind, Society, and Religion in the Biblical World’ (2017–)
Editor of Early Christianity, The Database of Religious History (2013–)

Professional Memberships

Frederick S. Tappenden