
Christopher Choi
Doctoral Student
Education
- University of Virginia - PhD Religious Studies (in progress)
- Princeton Theological Seminary - MDiv (2016)
- Nyack College, Nyack, NY - BA summa cum laude, Theological Studies (2013)
Research Interests
- Forms of critique in philosophical and religious thought
- Theories of history and temporality
- Modern Jewish and Christian thought (esp. in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany)
- The rhetoric of philosophical and theological texts as sites of reflection
- The relations between Enlightenment and later modern thought.
Teaching and Work Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virignia
- Elements of Christian Thought, Fall 2017 & 2018 (Prof. Paul Jones)
- Jerusalem, Fall 2019 (Prof. Jessica Andruss)
Research Assistant
- Religion and Its Publics, Spring 2018
- Dr. Benjamin Bennett, Department of Germanic Languages & Literature, Spring 2020
Papers Presented
“Out of Dissonance: Theological Reflections on the Rhetoric of Karl Barth and James Cone,” 2018 Annual Karl Barth Conference: Karl Barth & the Future of Liberation Theology (Princeton Theological Seminary, June 18, 2018)
“The Grounds for Thinking Otherwise: A Rhetorical Reading of Critique in ‘The Concept of Enlightenment’,” 2018 Graduate Student Conference: “Thinking Otherwise with Critical Theory” (University of Virginia, Dec. 6, 2018)