Christina Carnes Ananias

Biography

Christina Carnes Ananias is the Lilly Endowment Faculty Fellow in the School of Theology and Christian Ministry at Belmont University, where her research and teaching focuses on contemporary applications of Scripture and theology. Having worked with artists and students for over a decade, Christina taught various art history courses at Charleston Southern University before pursuing her doctoral work at Duke University. She now speaks throughout the U.S. on Christianity and the arts. She is currently engaged in a Lilly Endowment funded suite of research and programming titled In Every Generation, an initiative aimed at nurturing inter-generational friendships in the church through the arts. In her most recent scholarship, she weaves together Christology, late modern philosophy, and the paintings of the French modernists. Examples of this work can be found in Theology, Modernity, and the Visual Arts (Brepols, ‘24) and Art Seeking Understanding (Baylor Press, ‘23)