Gregory Spinner

Teaching Professor of Religious Studies   

Phone:  (518) 580-8406
Email:   gspinner@skidmore.edu
Office:   Ladd 205A

Education: 

• Ph.D. from The University of Chicago (2003)
• M.A. from The University of Chicago (1988)
• B.A. from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1987)

Podcasts and interviews:

• Tang Museum|Graphic Jews: Negotiating Identity in Sequential Art
• Podcast series: Voices on Antisemitism, September 4, 2014 (click on “listen now” next to Prof. Spinner's picture for the transcript to pop up and the audio to begin)

Teaching and research interests: 

• History of Religions: Myth, Mysticism, Millennialism, Material Religion, Visual Culture)
• Jewish Studies (Bible, Midrash, Kabbalah, Graphic Novels)
• Christian and Muslim scriptures, and their interpretations
• Strong interests in Ritual Studies and Gender Studies

Published works:

• “Misconceptions: Female Imaginations and Male Fantasies in Parental Imprinting” (with Wendy Doniger), Daedalus  127:1 (1998), 97-129.
• “Suffering, Jewish Concepts of,” in The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (ABC-CLIO, 2007).
• “The Use and Abuse of Morphology,” in Religion, Fiction,  and History: Essays in Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu (Bucharest: Nemira, 2001), II: 158-189.