Dr Charlotte Methuen is Professor in Church History at the University of Glasgow and an Anglican priest. She read mathematics at Cambridge, and then worked as a Community Advice Worker in the East End of London before going on to ordination training at Coates Hall, Edinburgh. She took her BD and then her PhD at New College, Edinburgh, with periods of study at the Universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen.
Dr Methuen was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Glasgow in 2011, made Senior Lecturer in 2013 and Professor in 2017. From 2005 until 2011, she held posts in Oxford as Departmental Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, University Research Lecturer, and Lecturer in Liturgy and Church History at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She has also taught in the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Bochum, Germany (1997-2003) and the Theological Faculty at the University of Hamburg (1996-97). She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Mainz (2010), Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University (History Faculty; 2009) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Bern, Jena, Heidelberg and Tübingen, the Kirchliche Hochschule in Wuppertal, and at the College of the Transfiguration, Grahamstown, South Africa. Before moving to Oxford, she served as Diocesan Director of Training in the Diocese in Europe (2003-2005).
Dr Methuen is co-editor with Professor Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes University) of Studies in Church History, the annual publication of the Ecclesiastical History Society. She is Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the Society for Reformation Studies, which organises an annual conference in Cambridge. She is Reformation editor for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.
