Research Interests
Christopher's dissertation (tentatively titled “Divining Jesus: Possession Christology and the Prophetic Selves of Luke-Acts”) pulls together recent scholarship on prophecy, (holy) spirit possession, and personhood in Luke’s two-volume work. The project explores possession as a complex narrative phenomenon by which Luke constructs multiple, “multiply selved” characters — most prominently, Jesus and the early Christians whom he possesses. The dissertation concludes with a challenge to post-Enlightenment models of the person that emphasize a singular, agentic self.
More broadly, Chris is interested in narrative criticism of the canonical Gospels, in early Jewish and Christian imaginations of the body, and in the interface between religion, biblical studies, and neuropsychology. He is also passionate about pedagogy that integrates digital media and the visual arts.