Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
Saint Louis University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theological Studies (2024-Present)
Hampden-Sydney College, Assistant Professor of Religion (2019-2023)
Valparaiso University, Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer in Christ College (2017-2019)
Education
University of Virginia, PhD in Religious Studies (2017)
Yale University, Divinity School, M.A. in Religion & the Arts, magna cum laude (2011)
Prairie College, B.A. in Philosophy, Intercultural Studies, Honors (2008)
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
Teaching & Learning Workshop for Early Career Religion Faculty, Wabash Center 2022
Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York Public Library 2021
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Hampden-Sydney College 2020, ‘21, ‘22
Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities and the Arts 2017–2019
Award of Merit, Best of Church Press Award in Biblical Interpretation 2019
Louisville Dissertation Fellowship, The Louisville Institute 2016–2017
Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Virginia (declined) 2016–2017
Raven Society, Academic Honor Society, University of Virginia 2017
Marc & Nancy Shrier Scholar, Jefferson Scholars Foundation 2011–2016
All-University Graduate Teaching Award, University of Virginia 2016
Rare Books School Summer Fellowship, Charlottesville, Virginia 2016
Z Society Graduate Teaching Award, University of Virginia. 2015
Rachel Winer Manin Fellowship in Jewish Studies, University of Virginia 2011-2015
Dale E. Turner Academic Scholarship, Yale Divinity School 2009–2011
Two Brothers Travel Fellowship, Yale Divinity School 2011
Summer Fellowship, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College 2008, 2010
Hudson Taylor Academic Merit Scholarship, Prairie College 2006–2007
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elijah’s Blackbirds,” Biblical Interpretation 32.2 (2024)
“Luther’s Tears: Hagar and the Limits of Empathy,” Studies in Christian Ethics 35.3 (2022)
“Reformations in Reading: Short Bibles and the Aesthetics of Abridgment,” The Journal of Religion and Society Supplement 21 (2019)
“‘Remembering with Advantages’: Chronicles and the Hermeneutics of Revision and Redaction,” The Journal for Textual Reasoning 9.1 (2016)
“A Historical Pilgrimage in the PaRDeS of Perception: Making Sense from Senses in the Song of Songs,” Glossolalia 3.1 (2010)
Other Publications
“A Blue-Penciled Bible: Bolton Hall’s Abridged Version,” The New York Public Library Website (October 7, 2022)
“Deuteronomy 22: A Tale of Two Cities,” The Cresset 82.2 (2018)
“‘How Now Shall We Read?” Invited Response to Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism by Christopher M. Hays and Christopher B. Ansberry, Syndicate Theology 2.3 (2015)
Book Reviews
On Biblical Poetry by F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Religion & Literature 51.1 (2020)
To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story by Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman, Reading Religion. Oct 3 (2019)
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans, The Christian Century. May 8 (2019)
Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture by Jason A. Fout. The Center for Barth Studies. Sep 21 (2017)
Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations
“Hester Pulter’s Psalms of Confinement,” Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles—16th-18th Centuries. Université of Paris Nanterre, Paris, FR, April 3-4, 2025.
“Dubious Mothers: Animal Maternities and Divine Providence in the Emblems of Hester Pulter,” Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible Section. Society of Biblical Literature Conference, San Antonio, TX, Nov 18-21, 2023.
“Noah’s Raven, Noah’s Son: Blackness and Slavery in Early Modern Thought,” Christianity and Racemaking in the Early Modern Atlantic World. King’s College London. London, UK, Sept. 13-14, 2023.
“Revelation and its Doubles” The Hermeneutics of Revelation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. August 11-16, 2022.
“And Moses Struck the Rock,” Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career Scholars of Religion, Wabash Center, Crawfordsville, IN. July 26, 2022.
“Consider the Ravens” Reasoning for Repair: Peter Ochs as Practical Philosopher, Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, University of Virginia. March 17, 2022.
“Luther’s Tears and the Limits of Empathy” Christian Ethics and the Bible, Society for the Study of Christian Ethics Conference. Sept. 11, 2020.
“Luther’s Tears: Violent Narratives and Masculine Empathies” Sacred Texts and Ethics Section. American Academy of Religion Conference, San Diego, CA. Nov 23-26, 2019.
“Women, Violence, and Power: Reformed Readings of the Rape of Dinah,” The Prodigal Love of God: Reencountering Dort at 400 & Beyond, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA. April 4-6, 2019.
“In the Beginning Were Two Stories: Creative Separation in Genesis 1-3” University of Notre Dame, Colloquium on Christianity & Literature, South Bend, IN. Nov. 26, 2018.
“Canaanite Teachers and the Wisdom of God,” Scriptural Reasoning Section. American Academy of Religion Conference, Denver, CO. Nov 16-20, 2018
“Reformations in Reading: Curating the Literary Bible” Religion and Reform. Creighton University, Kripke Center for the Study of Religion & Society, Omaha, NE. Feb. 15-16, 2018.
“Beyond the Breach: What Literary Readers of the Bible Might Learn from Higher Criticism,” International Society for Religion, Literature & Culture, Glasgow, Scotland. Sept. 9-11, 2016.
“Revisiting Friction in Biblical Literature,” Conference on Christianity and Literature: Riverside, CA. May 12-14, 2016.
“David Weiss Halivni as Reparative Reader,” Scriptural Reasoning Section, American Academy of Religion Conference, Baltimore, MD. Nov 23-26, 2013.
“Blind Men, Walking Trees, and Environmental Ethics,” Scriptural Reasoning Section. Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, New Brunswick, NJ. Mar. 15-16, 2012.