Professor Chloë Starr FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2026
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Summary
Chloë Starr is a Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology at Yale University. Her work straddles the borderlands of Chinese theology and literature, and she has written or edited nine volumes and dozens of articles on topics from courtesan novels to post-denominational theology.
Starr has recently completed a series of three edited volumes setting out the field of 'Modern Chinese Theologies' (2023 and 2024), and a translation anthology, 'A Reader in Chinese Theology'.
Her current project is a 'Life of Christ in Chinese Fiction'. A previous monograph, 'Chinese Theology: Text and Context' (2016), was the first English-language study of Chinese theological texts and their ties to literary forms.
Earlier works include 'Red-light Novels of the Late Qing' (2007) and edited volumes 'The Quest for Gentility in China' (2007) and 'Reading Christian Scriptures in China' (2008).
Active in a number of academic networks and steering committees relating to Chinese Christianity, Starr is a Fellow of the Institute for Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong, on the executive committee of the World Sinology Conference, and sits on the advisory or editorial boards of Chinese-language journals in religion and theology and literature. She teaches regularly in Beijing and has held visiting fellowships in the UK, Hong Kong, China and Australia.