Papers by Carmen Denia
Excerpt from MSc in Digital Scholarship thesis, 2023
Adviser: Prof. Jane Stevenson, University of Oxford
Presented also as 'Hanger Management: Crea... more Adviser: Prof. Jane Stevenson, University of Oxford
Presented also as 'Hanger Management: Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Campion Hall Vestments Collection' at the Ertegun Seminar in May 2023.
Please contact me for the full thesis / digital catalogue (current WIP).
Excerpt from MA in Religion and the Arts thesis, 2019
Adviser: Rev. Dr. David Mahan, Yale Divinity School & Institute of Sacred Music
Second Reader: Pr... more Adviser: Rev. Dr. David Mahan, Yale Divinity School & Institute of Sacred Music
Second Reader: Prof. Peter Kreeft, Boston College
Please contact me for the full thesis.
Glossolalia, Yale Divinity School, 2018
This paper investigates how images of cooking and consumption derived from biblical texts and med... more This paper investigates how images of cooking and consumption derived from biblical texts and medieval vision literature are innovatively employed in Inferno 21-22. In the first section, I build upon Alison Morgan’s assertion that culinary imagery in the cantos can be traced to preceding vision literature and suggest that the devil carrying a soul back from earth alludes to a shopper. This, I argue, is Dante’s unique and humorous contribution to the vision tradition that is crafted especially to critique barratry. In the second section, I explore how humour and changing medieval views on the kitchen are incorporated into Inf. 21-22 to provide paradoxically both a welcome respite from and an intensification of the reader’s horror at the infernal punishments. Lastly, I connect references to the digestive system within these cantos to larger themes concerning the entire canticle: the body of hell and the body politic.
Undergraduate Dante Journal of Singapore, Yale-NUS College, 2017
Edited excerpt from BA (Hons.) in Literature capstone project, 2017
entitled “The Hierarchy of Hu... more Edited excerpt from BA (Hons.) in Literature capstone project, 2017
entitled “The Hierarchy of Hunger in Dante’s Purgatorio"
Adviser: Prof. Andrew Hui, Yale-NUS College
Second Reader: Prof. Steven Green, Yale-NUS College and University College London
Yale-NUS Undergraduate Journal, 2016
This essay discusses how the use of similes and metaphors from Vergil's Aeneid in Dante's Divina ... more This essay discusses how the use of similes and metaphors from Vergil's Aeneid in Dante's Divina Commedia exemplifies both the poetics of conversion and the conversion of poetics, that is, Dante borrows these figures of speech to illustrate how pre-Christian ideas are converted by medieval Catholic thought and to embody Dante's view on the nature and process of conversion. To argue this, I adapt Raymond Williams's terms for cultural analysis in "Marxism and Literature" to analysing the simile of the falling leaves (Inf. 3) and the metaphor of the ancient fire (Purg. 30), and I conclude that Dante exemplifies through his poetic methodology his own belief that the gift of the very best of poets is true imitation of God's method of creation.
Presentations by Carmen Denia
Institute of Sacred Music Colloquium, Yale University, 2018
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ISM Students' Choice for Best Coll... more Please message me for the slides and/or full bibliography.
ISM Students' Choice for Best Colloquium Prize 2019
Lumen et Vita Conference, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, 2018
This talk explores how the Beauty of the human person is treated in contemporary dating practices... more This talk explores how the Beauty of the human person is treated in contemporary dating practices. I begin by analysing mobile dating applications and popular music, in order to sketch out the phenomenon I call “disposable Beauty”. Next, I consider how Balthasar might account for the problem of “disposable Beauty”, given his approach to Beauty in 'Glory of the Lord'. Central to a possible solution from Balthasar would be the “double and reciprocal ekstasis” between God and his people. Lastly, leaning on Cardinal Sarah’s 'The Power of Silence' and Francis Clooney, S.J.'s 'His Hiding Place is Darkness,' I briefly offer silence as a tool to preparing for ekstasis, that is, by incorporating silence into daily life, we can rediscover real Beauty and Love in our relationships with others.
Translation Projects by Carmen Denia
This unpublished project is a transcription, translation, and brief discussion of the Latin inscr... more This unpublished project is a transcription, translation, and brief discussion of the Latin inscription on the gravestone of Fr. Pierre Paris, M.E.P. (d. 1883). Fr. Paris was a French Catholic missionary to Singapore and the first parish priest of the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul.
This work in progress is a transcription, translation, and commentary on the Latin inscription on... more This work in progress is a transcription, translation, and commentary on the Latin inscription on the gravestone of Fr. Anatole Mauduit, M.E.P. (d. 1858). Fr. Mauduit was a French Catholic missionary to Singapore and the first parish priest of St. Joseph’s Church (Bukit Timah).
A version of this was presented at the Yale-NUS Global Antiquity Series in March 2022. Another version (heavily adapted by writers other than the author) was published in the SJC(UBT) parish magazine in early 2022.
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Papers by Carmen Denia
Presented also as 'Hanger Management: Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Campion Hall Vestments Collection' at the Ertegun Seminar in May 2023.
Please contact me for the full thesis / digital catalogue (current WIP).
Second Reader: Prof. Peter Kreeft, Boston College
Please contact me for the full thesis.
entitled “The Hierarchy of Hunger in Dante’s Purgatorio"
Adviser: Prof. Andrew Hui, Yale-NUS College
Second Reader: Prof. Steven Green, Yale-NUS College and University College London
Presentations by Carmen Denia
ISM Students' Choice for Best Colloquium Prize 2019
Translation Projects by Carmen Denia
A version of this was presented at the Yale-NUS Global Antiquity Series in March 2022. Another version (heavily adapted by writers other than the author) was published in the SJC(UBT) parish magazine in early 2022.
Presented also as 'Hanger Management: Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Campion Hall Vestments Collection' at the Ertegun Seminar in May 2023.
Please contact me for the full thesis / digital catalogue (current WIP).
Second Reader: Prof. Peter Kreeft, Boston College
Please contact me for the full thesis.
entitled “The Hierarchy of Hunger in Dante’s Purgatorio"
Adviser: Prof. Andrew Hui, Yale-NUS College
Second Reader: Prof. Steven Green, Yale-NUS College and University College London
ISM Students' Choice for Best Colloquium Prize 2019
A version of this was presented at the Yale-NUS Global Antiquity Series in March 2022. Another version (heavily adapted by writers other than the author) was published in the SJC(UBT) parish magazine in early 2022.