Chloë Starr
B.A., M.A. University of Cambridge
Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University
D.Phil. University of Oxford
Professor Starr works in the borderland of theology and literature. She has just completed a series of three edited volumes setting out the field of Modern Chinese Theologies, published in 2023 and 2024. She recently published a long-awaited translation A Reader in Chinese Theology, bringing primary source texts to an English-reading audience. She is currently working on a study of Christ in Chinese fiction. Her last monograph, Chinese Theology (2016), was a study of Chinese theological texts and their ties to literary forms. Prof. Starr’s courses explore a range of approaches to East Asian theology, including theological survey, Chinese and Japanese Christian literatures, China Mission, and Asian American theologies. She taught previously at the universities of Durham, where she was Senior Tutor of St. John’s College, and Oxford, where she taught classical Chinese literature. Other works include Red-light Novels of the Late Qing (2007); a coedited volume, The Quest for Gentility in China (2007); and an edited volume, Reading Christian Scriptures in China (2008).
Books
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Modern Chinese Theologies Volume 3 (link is external): Academic and Diasporic, ed., (Fortress Press, 2024).
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Modern Chinese Theologies Volume 2: Independent and Indigenous (link is external), ed. (Fortress Press, 2023)
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Modern Chinese Theologies Volume I: Heritage and Prospect (link is external), ed. (Fortress Press, 2023)
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Reader in Chinese Theology (link is external), ed. (Baylor University Press, 2022)
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Chinese Theology: Text and Context (link is external)(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).
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Documenting China: A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts, (link is external) co-ed. (University of Washington Press, 2011)
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Reading Christian Scriptures in China, ed. (T & T Clark, 2008)
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The Quest for Gentility in China, co-ed. (Routledge, 2007)
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Red-light Novels of the Late Qing (Brill, 2007)
