Janet H. Tulloch

Biography

Janet Tulloch is an interdisciplinary scholar teaching in the areas of ancient religions, visual art and material culture. Since completing her PhD, her research has been focused on the cultural history of women in Roman Religions and Early Christianity. Her article on “Gender” in The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology, edited by Paul Corby Finney (published 1/9/ 2017), is an excellent summary of her findings on this topic. More recently, Dr. Tulloch has been researching 21^st Canadian Art that explores or incorporates diverse religious cosmologies. She has been on leave from teaching since April 2016 to conduct her research and to coordinate a large exhibition of night sky imagery at the Shenkman Arts Centre/ Centre des Arts Shenkman in Ottawa for Canada’s 150^th Birthday. The exhibition, “Starry Nights” will feature the work of members from The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and is open 26 June – 25 July, 2017.

Research Interests

• Ancient Religions and Visual/Material Culture
• Cosmology and Origin Narratives (Texts and Images)
• 21^st Century Canadian Art and Religion

2014/2015 Courses

• RELI 2220 A Early Christianity (F)
• CLCV 2104 B/RELI 2737B Roman Religion (W)
• RELI 3222 A  Women in Early Christianity (F)
• CLCV 3307 A/ARTH 3105 A/RELI 3733 A  Studies in Roman Art:  “Visual Propaganda in 1st C. Rome” (F)

Selected Publications

Books:

• Volume editor and contributor: The Cultural History of ­Women in Antiquity. Series editor: Linda Kalof, London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013.

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Visual Representations of Children and Ritual in the Early Roman Empire,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. Volume 41 No. 3 (2012): 408-438.
• “Set Design as Cosmic Metaphor: Religious Seeing and Theatre Space.” Co-author: Tanit Mendes. Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches Théâtrales du Canada. Vol.27 No. 2 (Fall 2006): 260-288.

Book Chapters:

• “Religion and Popular Beliefs,” in Janet H. Tulloch, ed. The Cultural History of Women in Antiquity London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013.
• “Devotional Visuality in Family Funerary Monuments in the Roman World.” in Beryl Rawson, ed. A Companion To Families In The Greek And Roman Worlds. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, January 2011: 542-563.
• “Women Leaders in Family Funerary Banquets.” Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. MacDonald.  A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity.  Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006: 273- 313 including images.

Book Chapters in Translation:

• (i) Spanish : «Mujeres que dirigen banquetes funerarios familiares,» in El Lugar de la Mujer en la Iglesia Primitiva. Salamanca: Ediciones Sigueme, 2007 : 233-270.
• (ii) Italian : Il ruolo delle donne nel cristianesimo delle origini: Indagine sulle chiese