Blossom Champlain

Blossom Champlain (born Stefaniw) is Professor of Intellectual History of Christianity at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, in Oslo, Norway.

[1] Her research and writing focuses on how ancient and modern regimes of reading interact with the production of gendered and racial hierarchies.

Her doctoral thesis was Mind, Text, and Commentary: Noetic Exegesis in Origen Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus.

[2] Champlain is an expert on late antique religion, asceticism, feminist historiography, masculinity, and epistemic justice.

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.