UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Professor Majella Franzmann Associate Dean (Research); Convenor Studies in Religion; Deputy Chair Academic Board. School of Classics, History and Religion The University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Tel: 02 67733406; 0423327727 Fax: 02 67733520 Email: mfranzma@une.edu.au |
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Born in Charleville, Queensland. Gained a Dip. Teach. (teaching majors in English and French) in 1975 from Mt Gravatt Teachers College (Brisbane), followed by secondary teaching 1976-1983. Completed BA (Hons) first class in 1984 (Qld). Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD [“German Academic Exchange”]) Scholarship, University of Tübingen, in 1985-6. Awarded PhD in 1990 (Qld). Casual lecturer, tutor, and ARC senior research assistant at University of Queensland during these years. Elected to the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELEC) in 1990. Held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1992-3 at the University of Tübingen, extended for two months in 1995 at Bonn University. Elected to Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) in 1993. Appointed Lecturer in Studies in Religion in 1994 at UNE. Elected to the International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS) in 1996. Promoted to Professor in 2000. Election to Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
GRANTS related to Asia
ARC Large Grant (2002-04). Topic: Manichaean and Medieval Christian (Nestorian and Catholic) remains in Quanzhou (S. China) - an epigraphical, iconographical and historical investigation. [$242,671]. Joint project with Prof. Sam Lieu, team leader (Macquarie University), Dr. Lance Eccles (Macquarie University), Dr. Iain Gardner (Sydney University), Prof. Niu Ruji (Xianjiang University, China), Prof. Alois van Tongerloo (University of Leuven), Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams (London University).
ARC SRIP Grant (1998): Topic: History (cultural and religious) and Archaeology of Pre-Islamic Central Asia. Project coordinator, Prof. Sam Lieu (Macquarie University). [UNE share $5,000].
Macquarie University Research Grant & Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation (Taiwan) (2000). Topic: Manichaean and Nestorian Remains in the Maritime Museum of Quanzhou. [$4,000]. Joint project under Prof. Sam Lieu (Macquarie University) as team leader.
Recent publications:
Book
Franzmann, M. Jesus in the Manichaean Writings. Edinburgh: T&T Clark International, 2003. (pp. xiv; 168) (An analysis of Chinese Manichaean texts and texts from Central Asia was included in this research).
Published Conference Proceedings
Franzmann , M. “Jesus in the Manichaean Writings: Work in Progress.” Studia Manichaica: IV. Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 14.-18. Juli 1997, Eds. Ronald E. Emmerick et al, Berichte und Abhandlungen, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Sonderband 4, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2000, 220-46.
Franzmann, M. and S.N.C. Lieu. “A New Nestorian Tombstone from Quanzhou: Epitaph of the Lady Kejamta.” Proceedings of the International Conference “Research on Nestorianism in China”, Salzburg, 2003. (forthcoming).
Franzmann, M. “Syriac Language and Script in a Chinese Setting: Nestorian Inscriptions from Quanzhou, China.” Proceedings of the 9th Symposium Syriacum, Kaslik, Lebanon, 2004. (forthcoming).
Also forthcoming: The results of the research in Quanzhou will be published in 2005 in a volume of the Silk Road Series, provisionally entitled at this stage, “From Palmyra to Zayton – Silk Road Religions, Iconography and Epigraphy”.