Claire Renkin

Renkin lectures in art history and spirituality at YTU, a member college of the University of Divinity which is located in Box Hill, Australia.^[4] She is currently the Department Head for YTU's Department of Christian Thought and History.^[5]

As well as teaching at YTU, Renkin also lectures regularly throughout Australia and supervises research on the intersection of art history, visual culture, theology and spirituality.^[6]

Her research and publications explore connections between gender, devotion, and changing concepts of holiness from the late Middle Ages.^[6]

In 2008 Renkin presented a paper on Images of the Magdalen in late Medieval Florence : visualising paradoxes of female sanctity, at a conference held at the State Library of Victoria in conjunction with The medieval imagination exhibition. The papers were later published in a volume titled Imagination, books & community in medieval Europe.^[7]

Renkin is currently working with Sr Angela Slattery I.B.V.M., to study fifty paintings depicting the life of Mary Ward (1585-1645), who was the founder of the Institute of the Virgin Mary, better known as the Sisters of Loreto.^[4]

The Global Church Project included Renkin in its list of "Australian and New Zealander Female Theologians you should get to know in 2020".^[1]

• Elvey, Anne; Hogan, Carol; Power, Kim and Renkin, Claire (2013) Reinterpreting the Eucharist: Explorations in Feminist Theology and Ethics. Equinox, Sheffield, UK. 217pp. ISBN 978-1-84553-771-5

• Renkin, Claire (2015) An Art Historian Reflects on Modes of Visual Exegesis. Colloquium, 47 (1). pp. 158-161. ISSN 0588-3237

• Renkin, Claire (2016) A feast of love: visual images of Francis of Assisi and Mary Magdalen and late medieval mendicant devotion. In: Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West, eds. Mews, Constant J. and Welch, Anna E.. Routledge, New York, pp. 92-104. ISBN 978-14724-3732-7
• Renkin, Claire and Mews, Constant J. (2013) The Legacy of Gregory the Great in the Latin West. In: A Companion to Gregory the Great. Brill's Companions to the Christian tradition, eds. Neil, Bronwen and Dal Santo, Matthew. Brill, Leiden, pp. 315-342. ISBN 978-90-04-25775-7
• Renkin, Claire (2013) Real Presence: Seeing, Touching, Tasting: Visualising the Eucharist in Late Medieval Art. In: Reinterpreting the Eucharist: explorations in feminist theology and ethics. Equinox, London, pp. 131-151. ISBN 9781322198958
• Renkin, Claire (2010) Altera Magdalena? Clare as Sposa Chrisi and Mirror Imagery in a German Fifteenth-Century Life of St Clare. In: Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi. Broughton Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 255-270. ISBN 978-0-9806634-6-4
• Renkin, Claire (2009) Images of the Magdalen in late Medieval Florence : visualising paradoxes of female sanctity. In: Imagination, Books & Community in Medieval Europe : Papers of a Conference Held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 29-31 May, 2008 in Conjunction with an Exhibition "the Medieval Imagination", 28 March-15 June 2008. Kratzmann, G.C. Macmillan, South Yarra, Victoria. ISBN 9781921394331
• Renkin, Claire (2005) Pearls of Wisdom and Other Signs of Female Valour in Savoldo's Portrait of a Woman as St Margaret. In: Wisdom for Life. Australian Theological Forum Series (16), eds. O'Brien, Mark and Kelly, Michael A.. ATF, Hindmarsh. ISBN 9781920691295

• Renkin, Claire (2010) Images of the Magdalen in Late Medieval Florence: Visualizing Paradoxes of Female Sanctity. In: The Medieval Imagination, 29-31 May 2008, State Library of Victoria, Australia.
• Renkin, Claire (2008) Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe. In: The Medieval Imagination, 29-31 May 2008, State Library of Victoria, Australia.