Virginia Burrus

Syracuse University

09/07/2020 - 12/31/2020

Virginia Burrus is a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute. She is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY). She has been a fellow of the Israel Institute of Advanced Study and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her publications include Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things (2019); Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects (2008); and The Sex Lives of Saints: Toward an Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2004). At the Clark, she will be exploring the relation between place, fragmentation, and memory by putting ancient hagiographical texts into dialogue with contemporary art. The tentative title of her current manuscript is Earthquakes and Gardens: St. Hilarion’s Cyprus.