Personal profile

Research overview

Elizabeth (Ellie) Goings is a PhD student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, where she is studying under the supervision of Dr Rebekah Lamb Varela. Her doctoral research focuses on Lilias Trotter's use of parable in her devotional artwork, and Trotter's artwork as an expansion to the Victorian evangelical imagination. More broadly, her research interests are in the intersection of art history, theology, and church history, particularly in the early twentieth century. 

Education/Academic qualification

Master of Arts, Art History, Thesis: “Awakening the Protestant Imagination: The Wittenberg Altarpiece as a Construction of Lutheran Phenomenology”, George Washington University

9 Sept 201915 May 2021

Award Date: 15 May 2021

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, concentration in Studio Art, Christopher Newport University

26 Aug 201412 May 2018

Award Date: 12 May 2018