Professing in the Postmodern Academy: Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges

CONTRIBUTORS

Bibliography 357 CONTRIBUTORS Timothy K. Beal (Ph.D., Emory) is Harkness Associate Professor of Biblical Literature and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Initiative on Religion and Culture at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Before coming to CWRU, he was Assistant Professor of Religion at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. He is the author of The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther (Routledge, 1997), a commentary on Esther (Liturgical, 1999), and Religion and Its Monsters (Routledge, 2002). Marcia J. Bunge (Ph.D., Chicago) is Associate Professor of Theology and Humanities at Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University. She taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, Luther College, and Luther Seminary before joining the Christ College faculty in 1997. She is the author of several articles and two books. She edited, translated, and introduced a selection of J. G. Herder’s writings entitled Against Pure Reason: Writings on History, Language, and Religion (Fortress Press, 1993). In addition, from 1998 to 2000 she directed a project on theological perspectives on children, funded by the Lilly Endowment, and edited a collection of essays based on that project entitled The Child in Christian Thought (Eerdmans, 2001). William J. Cahoy (Ph.D., Yale) is Dean of the School of Theology and Seminary at Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, where he has taught since 1990. Prior to that he was a member of the Religious Studies Department at Saint Mary’s University. Margaret Falls-Corbitt (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) is Professor of Philosophy at Hendrix College where she has taught since 1987. She has authored articles in the areas of philosophy of 358 BIBLIOGRAPHY religion and ethics, with particular attention to Kantian theories of punishment and moral responsibility. In January of 2002 she began serving as the Director of the Hendrix-Lilly Vocations Initiative. D. Jonathan Grieser (Th.D., Harvard) currently teaches at Furman University. He publishes regularly in the history of Christianity and religious studies and is active in the Episcopal Church. Stephen R. Haynes (Ph.D., Emory) holds the A. B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, where he has taught since 1989. Since 1996 he has directed the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the ChurchRelated College, a national network of teacher-scholars at religiously affiliated institutions of higher education. His publications include Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination (Macmillan, 1995) and Noah’s Curse: The Biblical Justification for Slavery in America (Oxford, 2001). Richard Kyte (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) is Director of the D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Viterbo University. His recent research has been on topics in the field of moral psychology, including forgiveness, hospitality, and character formation. He and his wife Cindi have two children and are members of the First Presbyterian Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Paul Lakeland (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where he has taught since 1981. He is the author of five books, including Theology and Critical Theory: The Discourse of the Church (Abingdon, 1990) andPostmodernity: Christian Identity in a Fragmented Age (Fortress, 1997). He currently serves as Chair of the Theology and Religious Reflection Section of the American Academy of Religion, and is Co-director of the Workgroup for Constructive Theology , an independent national body of systematic and constructive theologians. CONTRIBUTORS Bibliography 359 Keith Graber Miller (Ph.D., Emory) is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Goshen College in Goshen, IN, where he taught from 1987-89 and again since 1993. He is the author of Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: American Mennonites Engage Washington (Tennessee, 1996), editor of Teaching to Transform: Perspectives on Mennonite Higher Education (Pinchpenny, 2000), and a regular contributor of essays to other edited texts and academic journals. John Neary (Ph.D., California—Irvine) is Associate Professor of English at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, where he recently completed a term as chair of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. He is the author of two books: Something and Nothingness: The Fiction of John Updike and John Fowles and Like and Unlike God: Religious Imaginations in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Collegium Institute on Faith and Intellectual Life. Elizabeth Newman (Ph.D., Duke) is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at Saint Mary’s College, Notre...