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At a glance

    Teacher - over five years experience teaching theology, philosophy and biblical studies
    Ministry - nine years pastoral experience, four of those in a weekly preaching ministry.

Professional appointments

    American Baptist College, Nashville, TN - Chair of division of Bible and Theology, Assistant Professor of Theology
    Aquinas College, Nashville, TN - Adjunct faculty, Theology and Liberal Arts
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN - Teaching Fellow, Graduate Division of Religion, Divinity School and undergraduate Department of Religion (2002 - 2008)

Education

    Ph.D (2009) - Religion, concentrating in Christian theology and Judaic Studies, Vanderbilt University
    MA (2006) - Religion, Vanderbilt University
    MA(TS) (2002) - Theological Studies, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA
    BA (1993) - Philosophy, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

Areas of current research

    Material Scripture - My main area of research, expanding themes first explored in my dissertation. The working assumption of Material Scripture is that theological and ideological markers are physically "encoded" in the various iterations of mass-produced Bibles available for purchase by believers. By studying and examining closely the tangible aspects of these Scriptures, we gain insight into the structures of interpretive authority in both explicitly magisterial and avowedly non-magisterial Christian ecclesial communities that underlie them
    Theology and Literature - Looking at theological assumptions through the lens of avowedly "non-theological" or "anti-theological" works such as those of Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, Franz Kafka, and especially William S. Burroughs
    Liturgical theology - employing theoretical models from semiotic analysis and cultural-materialist literary studies to examine concrete Jewish and Christian liturgical practices in light of their (often implicit) doctrinal assumptions
    Christology, theological anthropology and bioethics - Christ's "full humanity," as defined by the Chalcedonian doctrine of his "two natures," read in light of 21st century reconsiderations of "the human" due to developments in cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and medical technologies