Melanie’s Publications
Authored books
Melanie J. Wright (2012) Studying Judaism, Contiuum, 216pp, ISBN 978 08264 8719 -2.
Melanie J. Wright (2007) Religion and Film: an introduction, I. B. Tauris, 244pp, ISBN 1 85043 886 2. (Reprinted in 2008)
Melanie J. Wright (2003) Understanding Judaism, Orchard Academic, 269pp, ISBN 1 903283 035 [free version here]
Melanie J. Wright (2003) Moses in America: the cultural uses of biblical narrative [American Academy of Religions Cultural Criticism Series], Oxford University Press, 172pp, ISBN 0 19 515226 3
Edited books
Melanie J. Wright and Faltin (eds) (2007) The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity, Continuum, 230pp, ISBN 0 8264 9482 X
Melanie J. Wright and Edward Kessler (eds) (2005) Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations, Orchard Academic, 315pp, ISBN 1 903283 132
Chapters in books
'Material Judaism: Interpreting the Pushke', in Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland (eds) (2011), Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 51-63. ISBN 978 3 525 60442 7 [The volume was dedicated to Melanie's memory.]
'Judaism', in Eric Michael Mazur (ed) (2011), Encylopaedia of Religion and Film, ABC Clio, pp. 264-270. ISBN 978 0 313 33072 8
'"Every eye shall see him": Revelation and Film', in William John Lyons and Jorunn Økland (eds) (2009), The Way the World Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, pp. 76-94. ISBN 9781-1-906055-43-1 [pdf here]
‘Judaism’ in J. Lyden (ed.) (2009) The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film, Routledge, pp. 91-108 ISBN 978-0-415-44853-6
'Religion and Film’, in J. Mitchell and S. B. Plate (eds) (2007), The Religion and Film Reader, Routledge, pp. 438-444, ISBN 978 0 415 40495 2
‘The celluloid brothel: imag(in)ing woman in The Last Temptation’ in C. Joynes and C. Rowland (eds) (2009), Biblical Women and Their Afterlives, Sheffield Phoenix, pp. 67-79. ISBN 978-1-906055-81-3
'Religion, film, and cultural studies' in W. L. Blizek (ed.) (2009) The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film, Continuum, pp. 101-112. ISBN 978-0-8264-9991 2.
'Interdisciplinarity in Learning and Teaching in Religious Studies' (with Justin Meggitt) in B.Chandramohan and S. Fallows (eds) (2008), Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Higher Education, Routledge Falmer, pp. 152-159. ISBN 978-0-41534-1301.
'Reviewing My Son the Fanatic After 7/7; or, Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes', in L. Faltin and M. J. Wright (eds) (2007), The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity, Continuum, pp. 29-39, ISBN 0 8264 9482 X
'Shot, Burned, Restored: Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc’, in E. Christianson, P. Francis, and W. R. Telford (eds) (2005), Cinema Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film, SCM Press, pp. 63-79, ISBN 0 334 02988 0
‘Table Talk: Reflections on The Passion of The Christ,’ (with Tom Aitken et al.), in E. Christianson, P. Francis, and W. R. Telford (eds) (2005), Cinema Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film, SCM Press, 2005, pp. 311-330, ISBN 0 334 02988 0 (10% contribution)
‘Lights! Camera! Antisemitism?: Jewish-Christian Relations and the Cinema’ in E. Kessler and M. J. Wright (eds) (2005), Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations, Orchard Academic, pp. 171-200, ISBN 1 903283 132 [pdf here]
‘Reflections on the Nature and Goals of Jewish Christian Relations’ in E. Kessler, J. Pawlikowski, and J. Banki (eds) (2002), Jews and Christians in Conversation: Crossing Cultures and Generations, Orchard Academic, pp. 247-262, ISBN 1 903283 094 [pdf here]
‘The Nature and Significance of Relations Between the Historic Peace Churches and Jews During and After the Shoah’, in S. E. Porter and B. W. R. Pearson (eds) (2000), Christian-Jewish Relations Through the Centuries [JSNT Supplement Series 192; Roehampton Papers 6], Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 400-425, ISBN 1 84127 090 3
Journal articles
Refereed journals
‘”Perfection is not an aim”: the Margate Exodus’ - was to be in the European Journal of Cultural Studies Vol 10(3) 2010 but Melanie fell ill before its completion. [pdf here]
‘Critical Thinking and International Postgraduate Students,’ Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies Vol 3(1), Autumn 2003, pp. 63-94 (33% contribution, with Zoe Bennett and Lucia Faltin)
‘Don’t Touch My Holocaust’: responding to ‘Life is Beautiful’, The Journal of Holocaust Education Vol 9(1), Summer 2000, pp. 19-32
‘Responding to Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Adult Learners’ Work’, Journal of Beliefs and Values Vol (20)1, April 1999, pp. 88-97
‘Sunk in slavery…snarled in freedom’: recent feminist Analysis of Exodus-Deuteronomy and Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain’, Biblicon: Bible Media, Culture Issue 2, November 1997, pp. 39-49
Non-refereed journals
‘Dialogue or Dominance?: Interfaith Encounter and Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments’, Discernment: An Ecumenical Journal of Inter-Religious Encounter Vol 3(1), 1996, pp. 10-19
‘Moses at the Movies: Ninety Years of the Bible and Film’, Modern Believing Vol 37(4), October 1996, pp. 46-54
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
‘TBC - Paper on Jesus of Montreal (dir. Denys Arcand)’. Religion and Visual Culture Group, Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religions, Montreal, November 2009 [cancelled due to illness]
‘Connaissez-vous le Mémorial de la Shoah?: places of Holocaust memory in Paris’. Religion, Landscapes and Other Uncertain Boundaries. British Association for the Study of Religions. September 2009 [cancelled due to illness]
‘The Pushke Revisited’. Approaches to Visual Media. International Exchange on Media and Religion, University of Oxford. August, 2009 [cancelled die to illness]
‘Interpreting the Pushke.’ Approaches to Visual Media. International Exchange on Media and Religion, University of Zurich, September 2008
‘”Perfection is not an aim”: the Margate Exodus.' Religion, Media Processes and the Transformation of the Public Sphere. ESRC Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change, Open University, January 2008
'Re-presenting "fundamentalism": reviewing My Son the Fanatic after 7/7', Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association Study of Religion Study Group/UK Research Network for Theology, Religion and Popular Culture, April 2007
'Reviewing My Son the Fanatic After 7/7; or, Routes, roots and rhizomes'. The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity. Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations and Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, April 2006
'Passionate about Jeanne: new approaches in religion and film'. Religion and Visual Culture Group, Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religions, Toronto, November 2002
'The Nature and Significance of Relations Between the Historic Peace Churches and Jews During and After the Shoah'. Conference on Jewish-Christian Relations Through the Ages, Roehampton University, February 1999
CONTRIBUTIONS TO REFERENCE WORKS
‘Cinema and film,’ ‘English Literature’ (1000 words each). In E.D Kessler & N. Wenborn (eds) (2005), A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521826926
‘Anabaptists’, ‘British Israelites’, ‘Modernity’, ‘Myth’, ‘Quakers’ (500 words each). In E.D Kessler & N. Wenborn (eds) (2005), A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521826926
‘Charles Dickens’, ‘Benjamin Disraeli’, ‘Dissenters’, ‘Church and State’, ‘Emancipation’, ‘Folklore’, ‘Anne Frank’, ‘Historic Peace Churches’, ‘Hugh of Lincoln’, ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’, ‘Kibbutz’, ‘Lambeth Conference 1988’, ‘Latter Day Saints’, ‘Merchant of Venice’, ‘Postmodernism’, ‘Seventh Day Adventists’, ‘William Shakespeare’, ‘Silence’, ‘Wandering Jew’ (250 words each). In E.D Kessler & N. Wenborn (eds) (2005), A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521826926
‘Scholem Asch’, ‘CE/BCE’, ‘Paul Celan’, ‘Marc Chagall’, ‘Herbert Danby’, ‘George Eliot’, ‘Sigmund Freud’, ‘Heinrich Heine’, ‘Huguenots’, ‘Gerhard Kittel’, ‘Boris Pasternak’, Baruch Spinoza’, ‘Voltaire’, and ‘Richard Wagner’ (100 words each). In E.D Kessler & N. Wenborn (eds) (2005), A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521826926
Melanie J. Wright ‘Judaism and Christianity’ in J. Bowden (ed.) (2005), Christianity: the complete guide, Continuum, pp. 683-687 (2500 words) ISBN 0 8264 5937 4
Melanie J. Wright 'Jewish-Christian Relations' in T. Noble, T. Grass, J. McDowell and S. Holmes (eds) New Dictionary of Theology, InterVarsity Press, 2016