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Ellie G. Bagley, D.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
Tel.: 802-443-5975
E-mail:
Education
D.Phil. in Theology, University of Oxford, Sept. 2007.
Dissertation: “Heretical Corruptions and False Translations: Catholic Criticisms of the Protestant English Bible, 1582-1870.”
Advisors: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Peter McCullough
Examiners: Alexandra Walsham, Christopher Rowland
M.A. in Editorial Studies, Boston University, May 2002.
Thesis: “The Rheims New Testament Controversy: Biblical Annotation and Polemics in Elizabethan England.”
Advisor: Geoffrey Hill
B.A. in English, minor in Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University, May 2001.
Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of Religion, Middlebury College, July 2010-.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College, Aug. 2009-June 2010.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rocky Mountain College (Billings, MT), Aug. 2007-July 2009.
Visiting Instructor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rocky Mountain College, Aug. 2005-July 2007.
Books
Catholic Critics of the King James Bible, 1611-1911, under contract with Ashgate Publishing.
Catholic Vernacular Bibles of the Counter-Reformation, in progress.
Journal Articles
“Writing the History of the English Bible: A Review of Recent Scholarship,” 20-page invited article for Religion Compass, forthcoming in early summer, 2011.
“Catholic Bibles, Protestant Methods? A Comparative Study of Sixteenth-Century Vernacular Bibles,”in progress.
“The Catholic False Translation Argument and the American School Bible Controversy,” 35-page article under review.
“Bibles Burned, Buried, and Boycotted: Irish Resistance to the ‘Parliamentary Testament,’ 1800-1860,” 35-page article under review.
Book Chapters
“Why the Pope is not the Antichrist: Augustine in the Polemical Annotations of the Rheims New Testament,” in Augustine and Apocalyptic, ed. Kim Paffenroth and Kari Kloos (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books), in preparation.
Reviews
Gordon Campbell, Bible: the story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 (Oxford, 2010), forthcoming in theJournal of Ecclesiastical History
G. Sujin Pak, The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms (Oxford, 2010) forthcoming in Journal of Theological Studies.
David Norton, The new Cambridge paragraph Bible. With the Apocrypha. King James Version and A textual history of the King James Bible (Cambridge, 2005), Journal of Ecclesiastical History, July 2006,vol. 57 (July 2006): pp. 614-15.
Future Research Interests
Catholic vernacular Bibles of the 16th-19th centuries; Latin Bibles of the Reformation; Bible translation controversies in the history of Christian missions;the Bible in America (esp. as used by early missionaries in the western U.S.); the Bible in China; the King James Only Movement; the Douai-Rheims Bible in American Catholicism; world Pentecostalism.
Invited Lectures and Papers
“The Catholic Reception of the King James Bible,” to be presented at Christian Brothers University (Memphis), Oct. 24, 2011.
“Anglo-Irish Roots of the American School Bible Controversy,” to be presented at “An Anglo-America History of KJV,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2011.
“Catholic Critics of the KJB,” to be presented at “Texts in Transit: The Cultural Afterlife of the King James Bible,” at the Center for the Reception History of the Bible, University of Oxford, June 25, 2011.
“Catholic Attacks on the KJB,” at “Translating the Word in the Reformation,” hosted by the Society for Reformation Studies at Westminster College, Cambridge, April 13-15, 2011.
Seminars andConference Papers
“The Catholic Reception of the King James Bible,” to be presented at “The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenery (1611-2011),” at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, July 7-9, 2011.
“Translation Controversies and the Making of the King James Bible,” to be presented at "The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife," at Ohio State University, May 5-7, 2011.
“The Influence of the King James Bible on the Revised Version,” at “God’s Word in English: The King James Version as Translation,” at K. U. Leuven and Lessius University College (Antwerp), Belgium, Mar. 24-25, 2011.
“The Polemics of Biblical Translation: Catholic Vernacular Bibles in Germany and England,” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Montréal, QC, Oct. 16, 2010.
“Attacks on the KJB in the seventeenth century,” Oxford University Graduate Seminar: Religion in the British Isles: 1400-1700, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England, May 20, 2010.
“The ‘Errata’ of the Protestant Bible: Catholic Perspectives on Biblical Translation in the English Restoration,”Southeast Commission on the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA, March 6, 2010.
“Some Christian Parallels in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” NEH/CIC seminar:Teaching Homer and Hesiod Across the Curriculum, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, July 16, 2009.
“Catholic Bibles of the Counter-Reformation,”History of Christianity Section, Rocky Mountain Great Plains Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Regis University, Denver, CO, April 2009.
“The ‘False Translation Argument’ and the School Bible Controversy in Nineteenth-Century America,”History of Christianity Section, RMGP Regional AAR Meeting, Denver Seminary, March 2008.
“Bible Burning in Ireland and the Making of the Revised Version, 1855-60,” Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, Feb. 5, 2005.
“The Rheims Douai Bible and the Revision of the King James Bible,” Reformation Studies Colloquium, University of Birmingham, April 3, 2004.
“The Rheims Douai Bible and Controversies of Biblical Translation in Reformation England,”Oxford University Seminar, Religion and Society in Early Modern England, History Faculty Centre, Feb. 15, 2004.
teaching (Undergraduate)
Middlebury College (Fall 2010-Spring 2012): Department of Religion
The Christian Tradition
The History of the Bible
Christianity in Early Modern Europe
Pentecostalism and Liberation Theology
Christianity in China (new in Winter 2012)
Christian Heresy (new in Spring 2012)
Future Teaching Interests: History of Christian Missions; Christianity in Africa; the Catholic/Counter Reformation; Christianity in the 19th century; the Bible in America; Global Pentecostalism; Debates on the Trinity
Affiliations
American Academy of Religion, Sept. 2005-present.
American Society of Church History, Jan. 2007-present.
Ecclesiastical History Society, May 2008-present.
Sixteenth Century Society, Aug. 2009-present.
Tyndale Society, Aug. 2009-present.
Society for Reformation Studies, Oct. 2009-present.
American Academy of University Women, Sept. 2006-present.
Tau Alpha Kappa, Sept. 2009-present.
Phi Beta Kappa, May 2001-present.
Languages
Ancient: Greek (Koine, Septuagint), Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Syriac (in order of ability)
Modern: Spanish, German, French, Mandarin Chinese (in order of ability)