Eric Repphun
BS MA (Colorado) PhD (Otago)
Email erepphun@xtra.co.nz
Eric lectures on the Abrahamic religions. With qualifications in both journalism and religious studies, his academic interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary in nature, centred always on the application of the theories and methods of literary interpretation in the field of religion. His research has long explored the intersections of religion and narrative popular culture in the Western context, contemporary film and literature in particular. He has done extensive work with the fiction of Canadian Douglas Coupland and the American cult novelist Chuck Palahniuk as well as on the films of Tom Tykwer and Terence Malick. A self-confessed fan of theory, Eric has also worked with the more esoteric elements in the work of Max Weber, Jacques Derrida, and Jean Baudrillard.
Teaching
Papers taught in 2011
| Second Semester | 100 |
200 |
300 |
400 |
Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judaism, Christianity and Islam | |||||
| Religion and Globalisation |
Publications
Theses
Haunted: Religious Modernity and Reenchantment (PhD, University of Otago, 2009)
Breaking the Rules: Generation X, Spirituality, and Fight Club (M.A., University of Colorado, 2001)
Journal articles
'You Can't Hide from the Things that You've Done Anymore: Battlestar Galactica and the Clash of Civilisations Debate'. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Spring 2011.
'Anything in Exchange for the World: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, and the Aqedah', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 7/2 (2010)
'The Crow was Standing on the Sky: Exploring the Secret Worlds of Douglas Coupland'. Literature and Aesthetics 19/2 (December 2009): 217-235.
'Look Out Through My Eyes: The Enchantments of Terrence Malick', Sydney Studies in Religion 9 (2009): 1-24
'A Polar Night of Icy Darkness? Toward a Theory of Reenchantment', Landfall 215 (April 2008 – 'Waiting for Godzone'): 56-62