Ann Astell
John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Theology
Discipline(s): English Language and Literature, Theology, Latin Language and Literature
Available to direct dissertations
Department: Theology
Ann W. Astell is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Theology. She is the author of seven books, most recently The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture: Hagiography as Exegesis (2024), and the editor or co-editor of seven volumes. She has been the recipient of an N.E.H. fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has edited eight collections of essays, most recently Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality (2020). Past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and also of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, she has published recently in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Spiritus, Theological Studies, Marian Studies, and Religion and Literature.