Ava Chamberlain

Fellow Type
Visiting Fellow
Fellowship
Beinecke Library Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Fellowship Year
2005-2006
Project Title/Topic
Gendered Moments in the Life of Jonathan Edwards
Affiliation/Department
Wright State University
Biography

Ava Chamberlain received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990. Currently, she is associate professor of American Religious History and director of the Master of Humanities Program at the Wright State University. She is the editor of The “Miscellanies” 501-832, which is volume 18 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale University Press, 2000). Ava Chamberlain is also the author of “Bad Books and Bad Boys: The Transformation of Gender in 18 th-Century Northampton” ( New England Quaterly) and “The Immaculate Ovum: Jonathan Edwards and the Construction of the Female Body” ( William and Mary Quaterly).