Select Curriculum Vitae

Selected Journal Publications

“Attention to Dramatic Revelation: Theatrical Sacraments and a Phenomenology of Spectacle.” Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift. MThZ 75 (2024). ISSN: (print) 0580-1400. pp. 68-82.

Rachel E. Bauer, Emily Bryan, and Charles A. Gillespie. “The Untitled Othello Project: A Blueprint for Experiencing Theatre in Higher Education.” Interdisciplinary Humanities. Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring 2022 [published 2023]). ISSN: 1065-6139. pp. 12-25.

“Imagining the Unseen in Catholic Studies: Complexities of Encounter, Credibility, and Oedipus.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 2023). pp. 138-149.

“Sustainable Canons: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and Theatre.” Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics. Vol. 24, No. 2. (Winter 2022). pp. 150-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25180/lj.v24i2.311

“History Has Its Eyes on You.” The Other Journal. Issue 31: Time. 2021. https://theotherjournal.com/2021/02/01/history-has-its-eyes-on-you/ [Invited.]

“Theodramatic Themes and Showtime in Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit.” Religions 11, no. 10: 499. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11100499

Charles A. Gillespie, Justin Kosec, and Kate Stratton. “Treasure in Clay Jars: Liturgical Drama in Theory and Praxis.” Theatre Symposium Journal. Vol. 21, 2013. U of Alabama Press. pp. 90-103.

“Can Theatre be a Project of Liberation Theology?:  Explorations in the Case of a Theological and Dramatic Collaboration in Tanzania.”  Union Seminary Quarterly Review. Vol. 64:2-3, 2013. Union Theological Seminary, New York City. pp. 12-21.

    Selected Book Chapters

    “Dramatic Characteristics in Catholic Studies” in An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Model for Catholic Studies: Rooted in Vatican II, Growing Through the 21st Century. Ines A Murzaku and Joseph P. Rice, eds. Singapore: Springer, 2025. pp. 191-204.

    “Meaningfulness and Loving: Phenomenology Between Theological and Religious Studies Perspectives on Christian Love” in Phenomenologies of Love. Iulian Apostolescu and Veronica Cibotaru, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2025. pp. 437-453.

    Illumination and Sonic Synesthesia: Present and Absent Ornamentation in Hildegard von Bingen” in Theology and Media(tion): Rendering the Absent Present,Stephen Okey and Katherine Schmidt, eds. New York, NY: Orbis, 2024. pp. 170-181.

    Charles A. Gillespie, Emily Bryan, and Rachel E. Bauer. “Table Work as Anti-Racist Spirituality: Reflections on Untitled Othello, Embodied Pedagogy, and Spiritual Productivity” in “Why We Can’t Wait”: Racism and the Church. Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, Elisabeth T. Vasko, and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, eds. New York, NY: Orbis, 2023. pp. 65-79.

    “Neither Confirm nor Deny: Trinitarian Comments and the Iconography of Family” in Human Families: Identities, Responsibilities, Relationships. Jacob M. Kohlhaas and Mary M. Doyle Roche, eds. New York, NY: Orbis, 2021. pp. 26-36.

    “Reading Ricoeur Together: Interpretive Work and Surplus Meaning in a Just Pedagogy” in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University. Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. pp. 33-56.

      Education

      Ph.D., Religious Studies (Theology, Ethics, and Culture)

      University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)

      Dissertation: Drama Alone is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Interpretive Work of Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Christian Thought

      M.A.R., Religion and the Arts (Religion and Literature)

      Yale University Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music (New Haven, CT)

      Colloquium Project (with Jessica Petrus, Yale School of Music): Performing Virtue: Music and Drama in Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum

      B.A.H., Humanities, summa cum laude

      Villanova University (Villanova, PA)

      Minors: Theatre, Theology, Philosophy

      Honors Thesis: Playing Neverland: Theo-dramatic Analogies Illuminated by the Philosophy of Play