Academics
CURRICULUM VITAE
ReSEARCH INTERESTS
- Material Scripture. 
- Iconic Books. 
- Scriptural Reasoning. 
- Trauma-informed theology. 
- History of interpretation. 
- History of the book. 
- Cultural Materialism. 
- First Amendment and Supreme Court cases dealing with religious liberty in the US. 
- Taxonomy. 
- Bibliography. 
- Predicate nominalism. 
- The sublime and the un-sayable. 
- Catholic canon law. 
- Jewish interpretive traditions. 
- Nuclear security and non-proliferation issues. 
- Nuclear semiotics and hostile liturgies. 
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- President, Society for Comparative Research in Iconic and Performative Texts (SCRIPT) 
- Assistant professor of Christian spirituality at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago 
- Visiting scholar for theology and media at the Zygon Center for Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 
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