RESEARCH
ARTICLES
Classics
"Otho, Elagabalus and The Judgement of Paris: the literary construction of the unmanly emperor." Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne 37.1 (2011): 93-113.
"The
construction of Etruscan 'Otherness' in Latin Literature."
Greece
& Rome 56.2
(October 2009): 211-233. [abstract]
"The
'Teucer Paradigm' and the Eastern Other in Western Literature",
CLCWeb:
Comparative Literature and Culture
9.3/1
(September 2007): 1-10.
Religion(polytheism,
ritual, sacred space, virtuality)
"Western
Suspicion of Polytheism, Western Thought Structures, and
contemporary Pagan Polytheisms."
Journal
of Religion in Europe 3.1
(January 2010): 68-102. [abstract]
"Spatial
Metaphors describing the Internet and religious Websites: sacred
Space and sacred Place."
Observatorio
(OBS*) 3.4
(December 2009): 1-12.
"Another
Time, another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination."
Journal
of Virtual Worlds Research
1.1
(2008): 1-10.
[This article is an expansion of: "Another
Time, another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination."
In Being
Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies'
Perspective,
edited by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Online-Heidelberg
Journal of Religions on the Internet
3.1
(2008): 246-266.
"Contemporary
Pagan Ritual and Cyberspace: Virtuality, Embodiment, and
Mythopoesis." Religious
Studies and Theology. Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion
27.2
(2008): 171-194. [abstract]
[based on PhD thesis]
"Shifting
Realities? Changing Concepts of Religion and the Body in Popular
Culture and Neopaganism." Journal
of contemporary Religion
23.2
(May 2008): 215-232. [abstract]
[based on PhD thesis]
3)
Internet
Paganism and the Classical World
"Gaia Pammetor, Maternal Love and the Construction of Female
Divinity in Contemporary Paganism." Australian
Religion Studies Review
23.2
(September 2010): 191-207. [based on PhD research]
"Re-crafting
the Past: The complex Relationship between Myth and Ritual in
the contemporary Pagan reshaping of Eleusis." The
Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies
10.2
(September 2008): 230-255. [abstract]
[based on PhD thesis]
"Neopagan
Pilgrimages in the Age of the Internet: A Life changing
Experience or an Example of Commodification?" Journal
of Tourism and Cultural Change
4.2
(July 2006): 116-135. [abstract]
BOOK
CHAPTERS
Internet religious texts
"Reading
Texts, Watching Texts: Mythopoeic Modalities in Neopagan
Web-Texts." In: Reading
Spiritualities: Constructing and Re-presenting the Sacred,
edited by Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah Sawyer (Ashgate 2008).
189-203.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
ARTICLES
"Action
Heroes, Female"; "Da Vinci Code"; "New Age
Religion."
In: Encyclopedia
of Women in Today’s World,
edited by Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster (Sage 2011).
"Assyrian/Babylonian
Culture"; "Marco Polo"; "Meso-American
Cultures"; "Play as Rehearsal of Reality";
"South-American (Traditional Cultures)."
In:
Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society: A Social History,
edited by Rodney P. Carlisle and J. Geoffrey Golson (Sage 2009).
BOOK
REVIEWS
Review
of "From
Artemis to Diana: the Goddess of Man and Beast", edited
by Tobias Fischer-Hansen and Birte Poulsen. Bryn
Mawr Classical Review
(July
2010).
Review
of "L'Asie
mineure dans l'Antiquité: Échanges, populations et
territoires", edited by Hadrien Bru, François
Kirbihler, Stéphane Lebreton. Bryn
Mawr Classical Review (October
2009).
Review
of "The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is fighting
back--and how we can still save humanity", by James E.
Lovelock. Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
13.2 (2009): 245-247.
Review
of "Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus
in History and Legend", by Bart D. Ehrman. The
Theological Book Review (May 2009).
Review
of "Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis",
by Tammi J. Schneider. The Theological Book Review (May
2009).
Review
of "Classics
for all: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture", edited
by Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin. Bryn
Mawr Classical Review
(April 2009).
Review
of "Lectura Dantis Purgatorio. A Canto-by-Canto
Commentary." Edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn
and Charles Ross. Literature and Theology 23.1 (March
2009): 111-113.
Review
of "Spiritual
Values in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings",
by Christopher Garbowski. The
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
16 (Summer 2007).
Review
of "Dante: A Brief History", by Peter Hawkins.
Literature and Theology 21.1 (March 2007): 101-103.
Review
of "Cyberhenge:
Modern Pagans on the Internet", by Douglas E. Cowan.
The
Journal of Popular Culture
40.1 (February 2007): 169-170.
Review
of "Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological
Framework of Western Culture", by Northrop Frye and Jay
Macpherson. Literature and Theology 20.4 (December 2006):
485-487.
Review
of "Luce Irigaray, Key Writings", by Luce Irigaray.
Literature and Theology 19.4 (November 2005): 410-412.
BOOK
REVIEWS FOR RCCS
Review
of "The
Internet Imaginaire", by Patrice Flichy. February 2008.
Online at the Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies.
Review
of "Cyborgs
and Baby Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman
Body", by Kim Toffoletti. October 2009. Online at the
Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies.
CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS
"The
Discovery of the (well-known) World: Hellenic Reconstructionists
meet the Kalas." In Tourism
and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories,
Sheffield (UK) 14th-18th July 2005, Conference Proceedings,
compiled by Mike Robinson and David Picard. Centre for Tourism &
Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University, 2005. [CD-ROM].
conference
paper abstract
"Searching
for Classical Myths: the Re-creation of the Ancient World from
Scholarly Literature to Neopagan Pilgrimages." In Tourism
& Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth, Harrogate
(UK) 22nd-26th July 2004, Conference Proceedings, edited by Mike
Robinson and David Picard. Centre for Tourism & Cultural
Change, Sheffield Hallam University, 2004. [CD-ROM].