Faculty & Staff Directory
Emily Cain, PhD
Title/s: Assistant Professor
Office #: Crown Center 431
Phone: 773.508.2201
Email:
CV Link: Cain CV
External Webpage: https://luc.academia.edu/EmilyCain
About
Emily Cain completed her Ph.D at Fordham University (2016) in the History of Christianity and her M.Div at Princeton Theological Seminary (2007). Her primary area of research is Christian Late Antiquity and its intersection with the Greco-Roman World. Specifically, she examines philosophical and medical texts about sensory perception to rethink the ways in which early Christian authors understood their relationships to the world, to the divine, and to the other through visual metaphors. Her research is tied together around the central themes of ancient conceptions of the body, rhetoric, and power/agency. She is always interested in what lies beneath the surface, so to speak, as she seeks to uncover assumptions that both authors and readers bring to ancient texts.
Degrees
PhD, Fordham University (New York City)
MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ)
BA, John Brown University (Siloam Springs, AR)
Program Areas
Systematic Theology
Research Interests
Christianities in Late Antiquity, Mystical Theologies, Epistemology, Gender and Sexuality in Late Antiquity
Selected Publications
Forthcoming: “Mystical Wounds: Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs” in Timothy Robinson (ed), Song of Songs in Christian Spirituality. Companion to the Song of Songs in Christian History. Leiden: Brill.
Forthcoming: “Perfected Perception: Knowledge of God in Clement of Alexandria” to Studia Patristica.
“Tertullian’s Precarious Panopticon: A Performance of Visual Piety.” Journal of Early Christian Studies. 27.4 (Winter 2019), 611-633.
“Medically Modified Eyes: A Baptismal Cataract Surgery in Clement of Alexandria.” Studies in Late Antiquity. 2.4 (Winter 2018), 491-511.
