Prof Gavin Hopps

Prof Gavin Hopps

Professor

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2837
Email
grh10@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Professor Hopps is Director of ITIA and Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology. He has been involved in ITIA since he came to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø as an RCUK Academic Fellow in 2006. Prior to this, he was Lecturer in English at the universities of Aachen, Oxford and Canterbury Christ Church, and he was a CRASSH Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. 

Teaching

DI2009 Saints and Cyborgs: The Imagination in Theology and Science (with Ms Joanna Leidenhag and Dr Rebekah Lamb) 

DI4924 Theology and Imagination 

DI4936 Theology and Literature 

DI4944 Ecotheology and the Arts

DI5080 Guided Study in Divinity

DI5431 Theological Engagements with the Arts 

DI5453 Practical Criticism 

DI5601 Music and the Sacred in Theory and Practice

Research areas

Professor Hopps's research focuses on theology and the arts, with particular interests in Romantic literature and contemporary popular music. He is currently working with Professor Jane Stabler on a new edition of the complete poetical works of Lord Byron and recently completed a monograph entitled Enchantment in Romantic Literature.

PhD supervision

  • David Bernabe Romero
  • Ashlyn Freemyer
  • Benjamin Holsteen
  • Elspeth Manders
  • Vladimir Molinie

Selected publications

  • Hopps, G. R., 22 Jan 2025, Liverpool University Press. 536 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Hopps, G. R., 9 Feb 2025, Transpositions.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Stabler, J. S. (Editor) & Hopps, G. R. (Editor), 31 May 2024, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 1225 p. (Longman annotated English poets )

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Hopps, G. R., 1 Nov 2023, The Cambridge companion to Byron. Bone, D. (ed.). 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 176-192 17 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Hopps, G. R., 10 Feb 2022, Literature and religious experience: beyond belief and unbelief. Smith, M. J. & Spencer, C. D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 91-108 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    Hopps, G. R., 5 Mar 2020, Byron: reality, fiction and madness. Modrzewska, M. & Fengler, M. (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang, Vol. 30. (Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    Hopps, G., 19 Mar 2020, In: International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. 20, 1, p. 74-94

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Hopps, G., 2019, Annunciations: sacred music for the twenty-first century. Corbett, G. (ed.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, p. 337-352

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Hopps, G. R., 24 May 2019, Transpositions.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Open access
    Hopps, G., 1 Jun 2018, In: Christianity and Literature. 67, 3, p. 559-567 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review