Karl E. H. Seigfried
Theology and Religious History Faculty in Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried is Theology and Religious History Faculty at Cherry Hill Seminary, Adj. Professor and Pagan Chaplain at Illinois Institute of Technology, goði (priest) of Thor's Oak Kindred.
At U. of Chicago, President of Interfaith Dialogue, on Spiritual Life Council. Taught myth and religion at Loyola U. Chicago, Carthage College, Newberry Library Seminars.
Writes The Norse Mythology Blog, columnist for The Wild Hunt. Writing broadcast on BBC, published in Herdfeuer (Germany), Iceland Magazine, Interfaith Ramadan (Italy), MythNow (Joseph Campbell Foundation), On Religion (UK), Religion and Ethics (Australia), Reykjavík Grapevine.
Edited Illustrated Hávamál, Völuspá; co-authored Heathen Resource Guide for Chaplains; wrote Ásatrú definitions in Religion News Association Stylebook, "Denouncing Discrimination, Enforcing Inequality" for Sightings of Martin Marty Center for Advanced Study of Religion at U. of Chicago Divinity School.
"Ásatrú and Hindu: From Prophecy to Dialogue" in Learning from Other Religions: Leaving Room for Holy Envy (Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue Series, Palgrave Macmillan). "Children of Heimdall: Ásatrú Ideas of Ancestry" in Radical Transformations in New Religious Movements (Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements). "In and of the World: Seigfried and Seigfried's Pragmatism and Ásatrú Public Theology" in Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Bloomsbury).
"'In their lord’s great need': A Succession Myth in the Rāmāyaṇa and Beowulf" in International Journal of Indic Religions. "One Crime over the Line: Śiśupāla in the Mahābhārata" and "Magic and Power in The Laws of Manu, the Arthaśāstra, and the Kāmasūtra" in Journal of the Oriental Institute (India). "Beowulf: History, Legend, and Mythology" is Newberry Library Digital Collection for the Classroom.
Interviewed by ABC, Atlantic, BBC, Boing Boing, Boston Globe, Morning Edition, Chronicle of Higher Education, Curiosity Unplugged, Daily Beast, History, Inverse, Mythology Project (India), OnFaith, PRI's The World, Raven Radio, Strings Magazine, Viking Magazine, Wired, Ynet. Lectured at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Wagner Society of America, UC Berkeley, U. of Chicago, Wheaton College, MythoLogical Festival (India).
U. of Chicago Divinity School first Ásatrú grad; degrees in literature, music from UC San Diego, UW Madison, UT Austin; studied literature, art history at Loyola U. Rome Center, Icelandic at U. of Iceland.