Academic History

Ph.D., Yale Graduate School  (1995)
M.Div., Yale Divinity School  (1986)
B.A., Swarthmore College (1982)


Expertise

Historical Theology
Reformation
Women's Studies


Selected Publications

CD-ROM Editor, A Reformation Reader with CD-ROM: Primary Texts with Introductions.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002

"Embodied Pedagogy: The Body and Teaching Theology." Teaching Theology and Religion 4 (June 2001): 98-101.

"Women as Proclaimers and Interpreters of the Word." Currents in Theology and Mission 24 (February 1997): 33-43.


Selected Presentations

“’I believe as the scripture doth teache me’: Anne Askew’s rhetoric in her Examinations” at AAR/SBL Upper Midwest Regional Meeting (2010)

“Writing to Learn the Reformation or Who was Ulrich Zwingli and Why Should I Care?” at International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (2010)

“Three Contradictory Portrayals of Lady Jane Grey” at AAR/SBL Upper Midwest Regional Meeting (2009)

"Argula von Grumbach: A Sixteenth Century Woman Defends Her Right to Public Speech" at AAR/SBL Upper Midwest Regional Meeting (2000)

"Embodied Pedagogy" at the Conference of Lutheran Women in Theological Studies (1998)

"Martin Luther and the Patriarchs" at AAR/SBL Upper Midwest Regional Meeting (1998)

"The Immoralities of the Matriarchs in Luther's Lectures on Genesis" at AAR/SBL Upper Midwest Regional Meeting (1997)

"The Patriarchs and Matriarchs as Saints in Luther's Lectures on Genesis" at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (1993)


Professional Memberships

American Academy of Religion