Education
BA University of Notre Dame | Philosophy and Theology; Italian
MA University of Notre Dame | Italian Studies
MPhil University of Cambridge | Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion
PhD University of Cambridge | Theology and Religious Studies
Affiliations
University of Notre Dame in England | Adjunct Assistant Professor
St Edmund’s College | Bye Fellow; Director of Studies in Theology
Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College | Academic Officer
Interests
Christian Systematic Theology; Theology and Literature; Mass Incarceration and Social Inequality
Bio
Thomas Graff’s research draws upon multiple interdisciplinary perspectives to deepen Christological understanding. His doctoral thesis, ‘Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia’, uncovers and employs new textual references to and hermeneutical resources from Augustine’s oeuvre to chart Dante’s theology of love as the healing of human relation, realised in, as, and through the mystical body of Christ. More broadly, his work investigates the theological implications of language, storytelling, and genre, with particular interest in comic and tragic representation. Concurrently, his research considers the contemporary relevance of Dante’s Commedia, its inherited imaginaries of damnation, purgation, and salvation, and its attendant conceptions of human abandonment and belonging in the age of mass incarceration.