Isabella Guanzini is full Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Catholic Private University of Linz (Austria). She holds a doctorate in Theology from the University of Vienna (2012), a doctorate in Humanistic Studies from the Catholic University Milan (2013) and a habilitation from the Goethe University Frankfurt (2021).
From 2013 to 2016 she was senior postdoc fellow at the Research platform “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society” at the University of Vienna. From 2016 to 2019 she was Professor for Fundamental Theology at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on the problem of translating biblical- theological categories in the contemporary plural context, on the relationship between theology and aesthetics and between Christianity and psychoanalysis. Her latest publications include: Kunst trifft Theologie. Begegnungen in der Fremde (2024, with H.-W. Ruckenbauer and I. Bruckner); “Beyond the Sacrificial Fantasy: Body, Law, and Desire”, in: Open Theology 2024/10; “Wounded Beauty: Aesthetic-Theological Motifs in the Work of Alberto Burri and Anselm Kiefer”, in: Religions 2023, 14(6); Desiderare (2022, with D. Galimberti).