Fellow 2024/2025Marika Rose
Marika Rose is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology at the University of Winchester, where she has been a member of the Department of Theology, Religion & Philosophy since 2019. Prior to this, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the same department from 2016 to 2019 and was a Research Fellow at the CODEC Research Centre at St John’s College, Durham University from 2014 to 2016.
Marika earned her PhD in Theology from Durham University in 2014, following an MA with Distinction in Christian Theology from Durham in 2009, and a BA (Hons) in Theology & Religious Studies from St John’s College, Cambridge University, in 2005.
Her scholarly work has been recognized with several grants and fellowships, including the Combe Trust Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (2024-2025) and the Dorothy Foer Huck Research Award from Penn State University (2022-2023). She was named an Emerging Scholar in the Religion and Its Publics Project at the University of Virginia in 2018 and held a Research Fellowship in Digital Theology funded by The Jerusalem Trust at Durham University from 2014 to 2016. Additionally, she received a Doctoral Studentship Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (2010-2013).
Marika’s publications include the monographs Theology for the End of the World (SCM Press, 2023) and A Theology of Failure: Žižek against Christian Innocence (Fordham University Press, 2019). She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes, including ‘Love Your Enemy: Theology, Identity, and Antagonism’ in Dissenting Church: Exploring the Theological Power of Conflict and Disagreement (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), and ‘For Our Sins: Christianity, Complicity, and the Racialized Construction of Innocence’ in Exploring Complicity: Concepts, Cases, and Critique (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).
Her articles have been published in a variety of academic journals, including Theology & Sexuality, Palgrave Communications, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, and Religions. Notable works include ‘Holy Mothers of God: Sex Work, Inheritance, and the Women of Jesus’ Genealogy’ in Theology & Sexuality (2019), and ‘Hexing the Discipline: Against the Reproduction of Continental Philosophy of Religion’ co-authored with Anthony Paul Smith in Palgrave Communications (2019).