Bradley K. Storin
113 Coates Hall
bstorin@lsu.edu
225-578-2277
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
Undergraduate Advisor for Religious Studies
Professor Storin specializes in the study of Christianity in Late Antiquity (100–600 C.E.) with special interest in literature, communal identity, and religious violence. His research publications includes Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography (2019), Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection: The Complete Translation (2019), and Callinicus. The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae (2024).
B.A. in Classics and Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2003)
M.T.S., Candler School of Theology at Emory University (2005)
Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Indiana University (2012)
REL 1005 New Testament
REL 3000 Christianity
REL 4301 Theories of Religion
REL 4505 The Rise of Christianity
REL/HIST 4507 Christian Monasticism
REL/HIST 4507 Body and Soul in Early Christianity
HNRS 2030 Holy Violence in Early Christianity
HNRS 2030 The Lives of Saints
Recipient of 2023 Manship Summer Research Fellowship
Recipient of 2019 Manship Summer Research Fellowship
Recipient of 2019 HSS International Travel Grant
Recipient of 2017 Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award
Recipient of 2016 LSU HSS Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member
Recipient of 2015 Council on Research Summer Stipend
(with Ellen Muehlberger) New Approaches to Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of David Brakke, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming in 2025)
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2025)
Callinicus. The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae, Cistercian Studies 301 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, forthcoming in 2024)
Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography, Christianity in Late Antiquity 6 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)
Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection: The Complete Translation, Christianity in Late Antiquity 7 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)
(with Cristiana Sogno and Edward Watts) Late Antique Letter Collection: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)
"Christian Thought in Political, Social, and Institutional Contexts from Constantine to Theodosius II," in The Cambridge History of Early Christian Thought, ed. Lewis O. Ayres (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
"Kirchenvater: Briefschreiber im 4./5. Jh. Golden age of letter-writing: Gregor von Nazianz," in Handbuch Brief: Antike, ed. Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Alfons Furst (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming)
"On the Death Curse in Late Antique Hagiography," in New Approaches to Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of David Brakke, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming in 2025)
"Monastic Identity and Violence in Callinicus' Life of Hypatius," Studia Patristica 129 (2021): 155-67
"Autohagiobiography: Gregory of Nazianzus among His Biographers," Studies in Late Antiquity 1 (2017): 254-81
"Reconsidering Gregory of Nazianzus' Letter Collection," Studia Patristica 95 (2017): 254-81
"The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nazianzus," in Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, ed. Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 81-101
(with Cristiana Sogno and Edward J. Watts) "Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity," in Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, ed. Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 1-12
"In a Silent Way: Asceticism and Literature in the Rehabilitation of Gregory of Nazianzus," Journal of Early Christian Studies 19 (2011): 225-57
"Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 18.5-17, 'Funeral Oration for His Father," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Canons of the Councils of Elvira and Arles," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Gregory of Nazianzus, Poem 2.1.12.25-47, 136-810, 'On Himself and Concerning the Bishops," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 43.1, 37-38, 43-53, 60 -70, 77-80, "Funeral Oration for the Basil the Great, Bishop of Cappadocian Caesarea," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Maximus of Turin, Sermons 105 - 108," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"John Chrysostom, First Oration against the Jews," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Callinicus, The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History 7.7, 13 - 15," The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 5: Community, ed. Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
"Leo of Rome, Tome," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 36-48
"Henotikon of 482," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022),187-90
(with Mark DelCogliano) "Justinian, On the Right Faith," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 310-40
"Second Henotikon," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 4: Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 393-97
"Tatian, Oration to the Greeks 4-7," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 79-83
"Origen, On First Principles 2.6," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 187-96
(with Mark DelCogliano) "Apollinarius of Laodicea, Selected Letters," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 322-26
"Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Faith and the Incarnation," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 322-26
"Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Body's Union with the Divinity in Christ," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 327-32
"Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 388-98
"Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.10-11" in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 399-402
"Ibas, Letter to Maris," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3: Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, ed. Mark DelCogliano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 726-30
"Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor 1.1 - 4, 13, " in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings. Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 3 - 12
"Cyril of Jerusalem, Prologue and Mystical Catecheses," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 217-43
"Gregory the Wonderworker, Address to Origen 5 - 9," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 29-40
"John Chrysostom, Baptismal Instructions," in The Cambridge of Early Christian Writings, Volume 2: Practice, ed. Ellen K. Muehlberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 244-72
"Ptolemy, Letter to Flora," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde- Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 3-10
"Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles Preface and 1.1-1.3," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde- Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), , 71 - 105
"Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.1-1.1.3," in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 1: God, ed. Andrew Radde- Gallwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 294-301
Review of Michael Motia, Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), in Journal of Late Antiquity 17 (2024): 279-81
Review of Francesco Celia, Preaching the Gospel to the Hellenes: The Life and Works of Gregory the Wonderworker, Late Antique History and Religion 20 (Leuven: Peeters, 2019), in Review of Biblical Literature (09/23)
Review of Anna Marmodoro and Neil B. McLynn, ed., Exploring Gregory of Nyssa. Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), SEHEPUNKTE - Review Journal for History 20.3 (2020)
Review of Andrew Hofer, Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in The Catholic Historical Review, 101 (2015): 598-99
Review of Christopher Beeley, ed., Re-Reading Gregory of Nazianzus: Essays on History, Theology, and Culture, (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press), 2012, in Journal of Early Christian Studies 21 (2013): 473-75
Review of Susanna Elm, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 49 (Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.12.63
“Athanasian Creed,” “Diocese, “Homoeans,” and “Metropolitan,” in The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson, 2 vols. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 1:170, 1:485, 1:738, 2:1144
“Basil of Amasea,” “Gregory of Nazianzus,” and “Macrina the Younger,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Orlin, with Lisbeth S. Fried, Jennifer Wright Knust, Michael L. Satlow, and Michael E. Pregill (London: Routledge, 2016), 134, 375-76, 556