Blossom Stefaniw

Blossom Stefaniw is Professor of Intellectual History of Christianity at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, a private specialized university that focuses on theology, religion, education and social studies in Oslo, Norway. Her research and writing focuses on how ancient and modern regimes of reading interact with the production of gendered and racial hierarchies.

Education
Stefaniw was awarded her PhD from the University of Erfurt in 2008, where she studied with Professor Jörg Rüpke. Her doctoral thesis was Mind, Text, and Commentary: Noetic Exegesis in Origen Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus. It was published as a monograph in 2010.

Career and research
Stefaniw is an expert on late antique religion, asceticism, feminist historiography, masculinity, and epistemic justice. Before coming to the MF Norwegian School, held postdoctoral positions at the University of Erfurt, Dumbarton Oaks, and Aarhus University. She was then a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council and Junior Professor for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 2011.