BA University of California, Riverside 1972; MA Wheaton Graduate School 1974; Teaching Credential, University of California, Riverside, 1976; MDiv San Francisco Theological Seminary 1981; PhD Duke University 1985
Colgate Rochester Divinity School 1972-77; Princeton Theological Seminary 1985-92; United Theological Seminary; Union Theological Seminary
New Testament (Christian Scriptures) language, literature, and early Christian origins; Graeco-Roman rhetoric; hermeneutics; history of exegesis; the world's religions; womanist thought and African American literature, intellectual history, and religion; Utopian idealism in the West; women's studies
Tongues of Fire: Power for the Church Today. Studies in the Acts of the Apostles, Horizons Bible Study, 1990-1991, Presbyterian Church (USA), April 1990; Pentecost 2. Interpreting the Lessons of the Church Year. Proclamation 6. Series A (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996); For all Are One in Christ. The Unity and Diversity of the Body of Christ in Pauline Theology (Gal. 3:26-29) Presbyterian Church (USA) January, 2000). Articles include "Womanist Interpretations of the New Testament: The Quest for Holistic and Inclusive Translation and Interpretation" (1990). Reprinted in Feminism in the Study of Religion. A Reader. Darlene M. Juschka, ed. (New York: Continuum 2001): 539-559; "Somebody Done Hoodoo'd the Hoodoo Man: Language, Power, Resistance, and the Effective History of Pauline Texts in American Slavery." Slavery in Text and Interpretation. Semeia 83-84 (Fall, 2000). (Allen Callahan, Richard Horsley, and Abraham Smith, eds. (Atlanta: The Society of Biblical Literature, 2000): 203-233; "Womanist Biblical Interpretation," Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, John H. Hayes, gen. ed., Vol. 2 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999): 655-658; "The Acts of the Apostles," Searching the Scriptures. A Feminist Commentary, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, ed. (Crossroad, 1994): 763-799; "A Chamberlain's Journey and the Challenge of Interpretation for Liberation," The Bible and Liberation. Political and Social Hermeneutics, Revised Edition (Orbis, 1993): 485-504; "Biblical Theodicy and Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics: 'The Miry Clay, the Horrible Pit, a New Song in My Mouth,'" Womanist Perspectives on Suffering and Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Emilie Townes, ed. (Orbis, 1993): 8-30
Olive B. O'Connor Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University 1997-98; research fellowships: Duke University, Princeton Theological Seminary, The Fund on Theological Education, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); member: The American Academy of Religion; Society of Biblical Literature; Society for the Study of Black Religion