ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Pomona College, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 2017-
Pomona
College, Chair,
Department of Religious Studies, 2013-15, 16-
Pomona
College,
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 2011-
Pomona
College,
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 2005-2011
St.
Bonaventure University, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology,
2003-2005
Barnard
College,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, 2002-2003
Barnard
College,
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center
for Research on Women and Department of Religion, 2000–2002 (Funding Agent: Fonds pour la formation de
chercheurs et l’aide à la recherche, Québec)
McGill
University, Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Religious Studies, 1995–2000
Concordia
University, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Religion, Winter 1999
ACADEMIC DEGREES
Ph.D.
McGill
University, Montréal, Québec, Faculty of Religious Studies, 2001
Thesis: Reading
Gender, Nation and Future Vision in Micah: Reconfiguring the Reader as Subject (supervised by Robert Culley).
Bachelor
of Music, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1988
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Babylon Complex:
Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty. New York: Fordham
University Press, 2014.
How Hysterical:
Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film. Religion/Culture/Critique.
New York: Palgrave, 2003
· excerpt reprinted in The
Religion and Film Reader, ed. Brent Plate and Jolyon Mitchell (Routledge,
2007), 378-383.
Changing Subjects: Gender,
Nation and Future in Micah. Playing the Texts 7. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
Co-edited
Volume
Tat-siong Benny Liew and Erin
Runions, eds. Psychoanalytic Mediations
between Marxist and Postcolonial Readins of the Bible. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: SBL
Press, forthcoming 2016.
Black, Fiona, Roland Boer and Erin Runions, eds. The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and
Biblical Interpretation. Semeia Studies 36. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
Articles
“Carceral Technologies, Religious
Affects, U.S. Theopolitics,” in Bible in Politics,
ed. James Crossley and Erin Runions. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2019.
“Immobile Theologies, Carceral
Affects: Interest and Debt in Faith-Based Prison Programs.” Affectivity and
Divinity: Affect Theories and Theologies, ed. Karen Bray and Stephen A.
Moore. New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2018.
“Sexual Politics and Surveillance: A Feminist, Metonymic, Spinozan Reading of Psalm 139.” The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field, ed. Yvonne Sherwood.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017.
“The
Bible as Biopolitics in Obergefell v. Hodges: Theopolitical
Subtexts and the Economic Management of Democracy.” Political Theology 17.5 (2016): 465-85.
“Biobible: Biblical Provocations
to Biocapital in the U.S. Culture Wars.” Bible & Critical Theory
, 12.2 (2016), http://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojsbct/index.php/bct/issue/view/41
Erin Runions and Tat-siong Benny
Liew. “Introduction: Psychoanalytic Mediations,” in Psychoanalytic Mediations between Marxist and
Postcolonial Readings of the Bible, ed. Tat-siong Benny Liew and Erin Runions. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.
“The Temptation of Noah: The Debate about Patriarchal
Violence in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.”
In The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of
Biblical Reception in Film, vol. 2, ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch,
827-44. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
“The Theopolitics of Panoptic
Murk: Scanner Darkly Cites 1 Corinthians.”
In Simulating Aichele:
Essays in Bible, Film, Culture and Theory, ed. Melissa C. Stewart, 196-210.
Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015.
Karen Derris and Erin Runions, “More than Global
Citizenship: How Religious Studies Expands Participation in Global
Communities,” in Teaching Civic
Engagement, ed. Forrest Clingerman and Reid B. Locklin. AAR Teaching Religious Studies.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
“Babel
and the Fear of Same-Sex Marriage: Mapping Conservative Constellations.” Journal of Biblical Reception 1.1 (2014):
47-65.
“Deconstructing Apocalyptic Literalist Allegory,” in The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature,
ed. John J. Collins, 235-52. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Son
of Man and Resistance to U.S. Imperialism,” in Son of Man, ed. Richard Walsh, Jeffrey L. Staley, and Adele
Reinhartz, 178-91.
Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.
Jane S.
Webster, Erin Runions, Eugene V. Gallagher, Davina C. Lopez, Sheila E. McGinn,
Todd C. Penner, David B. Howell. “Student Learning Outcomes
for Biblical Studies in the Liberal Arts.” Teaching
Theology & Religion 15 (2012): 262–283.
“Effects of Grace: Detranscendentalizing,”
in Planetary Loves: Spivak,
Postcoloniality, and Theology, ed. Stephen D.
Moore, and Mayra Rivera, 225-37. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.
“Tolerating Babel: The Bible, Film, and the Family in U.S. Biopolitics.” Religious
Studies and Theology 29.2 (2010): 143-69; reprinted in Film and Religion: Four Volumes, ed. Brent Plate. Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies Series. New
York: Routledge, forthcoming 2017.
“Empire’s Allure: Babylon and the Exception to
Law in Two Conservative Discourses,” Journal of the American Academy of
Religion 77.3 (2009): 680-711.
“Detranscendentalizing
Decisionism: Political Theology after Gayatri Spivak,” Journal of
Feminist Studies in Religion 25.2 (2009): 67-85.
“Ms. Job and the Problem of God: A Feminist,
Existentialist, Materialist Reading.” In From the Margins 1: Women of the
Hebrew Bible and their Afterlives, ed. Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, 159-74. Sheffield: Sheffield
Phoenix Press, 2009.
“Queering the Beast: The Antichrists’ Gay
Wedding,” in Queering the Non-Human, ed. Noreen Giffney
and Myra Hird, 97-110. London: Ashgate,
2008.
“From
Disgust to Humor: Rahab’s Queer Affect.” Postscripts: A Journal of Sacred
Texts and Contemporary Worlds 4.1 (2008), 41-69; reprinted in Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the
Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship,
ed. T. Hornsby and K. Stone, 45-74. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2011.
“Signifying Proverbs: Menace II Society.”
In Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon,
ed. Vincent Wimbush, 145-54. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008.
“Theologico-Political Resonance: Carl Schmitt
between the Neocons and the Theonomists.” Differences:
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 18.3 (fall
2007): 43-80.
“Inherited Crypts of the
Wife/Mother: Ang Lee’s Hulk meets Zechariah
5:5–11 in Contemporary Apocalyptic Discourse,” Biblical
Interpretation 14/1–2 (2006): 127-142.
“Refusal
to Mourn: U.S. National Melancholia and its Prophetic Precursors.” Postscripts:
A Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds 1.1 (2005): 9-45.
“Desiring War: Apocalypse, Commodity
Fetish, and the End of History.”
The Bible and Critical Theory 1.1 (2004),
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/toc/bc/2004/1/1; reprinted in The
Postcolonial Biblical Reader, ed. R. Sugirtharajah,
112-28. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
“Biblical
Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric, before and after 9.11.” The Scholar and Feminist Online 2.2 (2004),
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/reverb/runions1.htm; reprinted
in Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, ed.
Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen, 71-88. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
“Miracles, Apocalypse, Globalization.” In Talitha Cum!: The
Grace of Solidarity in a Globalized World, ed. Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Gabriela Miranda García,
224-35. Geneva: WSCF Publications, 2004.
“Why Girls Cry: Gender Melancholia and Sexual Violence in Boys Don’t Cry and Ezekiel 16.” In Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and
Film, ed. George Aichele and Richard Walsh,
188–212. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity International Press, 2002.
“Violence and the Economy of Desire in Ezekiel 16:1–45.” In A Feminist Companion to
Daniel and the Prophets, ed.
Athalya Brenner, 156–69. Feminist
Companion to the Bible, Second Series. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 2001.
“Called to Do Justice?:
A Bhabhian Reading of Micah 6:8.” In
Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible, ed. A.K.M. Adams, 153–65.
St. Louis: Chalice, 2001.
“Numbers 16, Two
Contemporary Parallels and the Logic of Colonization.” In Culture, Entertainment and the Bible, ed. George Aichele,
182–205. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
“Playing
it Again: Utopia, Contradiction, Hybrid Space and the
Bright Future in Micah.” In The Labour of Reading: Desire and Alienation
in Biblical Interpretation, ed. Fiona Black, Roland Boer, and Erin Runions,
285–300. Semeia Studies 36. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
“Zion
is Burning: Gender Fuck in Micah.” Semeia 82 (1998): 225–46.
Responses, and Dictionary Articles
“Response to Bible and Critical Theory Special Issue on
Erin Runions’s The
Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex,
and Sovereignty.” Bible and Critical
Theory 11.2 (2015, in progress).
“Political Theologies of the Surveilled Womb?” Political Theology 16.4 (2015): 1-5. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1462317X15Z.000000000160
“Intolerance:
Love’s Struggle through the Ages (1916),” in Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key
Films, ed. Adele Reinhartz, 135-39. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Erin Runions and Steven D. Mears. “Babylon in
Film.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: Walter
de Gruyter Publishing House, 2010.
“Pop Scripture: Creating Small Spaces for
Social Change.” In The Bible In/And Pop Culture, ed. Philip Culbertson
and Elaine Wainwright.” Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Scholars, forthcoming, 2010.
“Response
to Matthew Rindge, ‘Teaching the Bible and Film: Pedagogical Promises,
Pitfalls, and Proposals.’” Teaching Theology and Religion 13.2 (2010),
150-51.
Erin Runions and Steven D. Mears. “Babylon in
Film.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: Walter
de Gruyter Publishing House, forthcoming.
“Poststructuralism, Deconstructionism.” Dictionary
of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation. Ed. Stanley E. Porter and
Brook W. R. Pearson. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
“Panopticon Gone Mad? Staged Lives and Academic
Discipline(s).” The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture and the Space
Between, ed. Fiona Black, 185-194. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
2006.
Book
Reviews and Review Essays
“Review Essay on Antonio Negri’s The
Book of Job.” Bible and Critical Theory 8.1
(2012), http://bibleandcriticaltheory.org/index.php/bct/article/view/484/461.
Review of A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the
Hebrew Bible and Beyond, ed.
Deborah W. Rooke.
Biblical Interpretation 18.4-5 (2010): 498-500.
Review of Postcolonial
Interventions: Essays in Honor of R. S. Sugirtharajah, ed. Tat-Siong Benny
Liew, Journal of Postcolonial Theory and Theology 1 (2010), http://postcolonialjournal.com/Resources/Review%20Postcolonial%20Interventions.pdf
“Religion,
Identity and Political Engagment, ” a review essay of Sin, Sex, and
Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, by Cynthia Burack; Love
the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, by Janet
Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini; AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural
Semiotics of an Epidemic, by Thomas L. Long; and Terrorist
Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, by Jasbir K. Puar; in GLQ:
A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16. 1-2 (2010): 297-307.
“Decentering
Authority: The Postcolonial Challenge to Certainty,” a review essay of Postcolonial
Biblical Criticism, ed. Stephen Moore and Fernando Segovia, Journal for
the Study of the New Testament 30.4 (2008): 473-79.
Review
of Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through
the Arts, by S. Brent Plate, Bible and
Critical Theory 3.1 (2007).
Review
of Her Master’s Tools? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical
Critical Discourse, ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner, Review
of Biblical Literature, 2/25 (2006),
http://www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp?TitleId=4835.
ARC: Journal for the McGill
Faculty of Religious Studies (book review editor), 1997.
Review of The Feminist Companion to the
Bible, 10 volumes, ed. Athalya Brenner. ARC 24 (1996): 171–73.
Review of Politics and Theopolitics in the
Bible and Postbiblical Literature, ed. Henning G. Reventlow, Yair Hoffman
and Benjamin Uffenheimer. ARC 23 (1995): 177–79.
Occasional
Pieces
Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar on Uprising (KPFK, 90.7), July 7 2014, http://uprisingradio.org/home/2014/07/07/erin-runions-on-the-babylon-complex/
Interview with Jadaliyya,
New Texts Out Now, August 27, 2014, http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/19004/new-texts-out-now_erin-runions-the-babylon-complex
“Jack
Ryan Uses the Bible to Exonerate Wall Street, CIA.” Religion Dispatches,
March 1, 2014, http://religiondispatches.org/jack-ryan-uses-bible-to-exonerate-wall-street-cia/
Elizabeth Castelli and Jennifer Knust, and Erin Runions, “‘It’s Not about a
Hurricane. It’s about America’: 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
Winner and Oscar Nominated Trouble the Water to Screen at SBL Annual
Meeting in New Orleans” SBL Forum, Fall 2009.
“Torture by the Book: On the Bible and ‘Enhanced
Interrogation Techniques.’” The Ecumenist 46.4 (Fall 2009): 16-18.
“Disco-Reggae at Abu Ghraib: Music, the Bible,
and Torture.” Religion Dispatches, June 22, 2009, http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/humanrights/1560/disco-reggae_at_abu_ghraib%3A_music%2C_the_bible_and_torture
“Homosexualized and
Racialized Enemy as Anti/Christ.” Spotlight on Teaching. Religious Studies
News 22.4 (October 2007): vi.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Pomona
College Research Funds
Lilly
Endowment , Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in
Theology and Religion Grants
Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship, Barnard College,
Doctoral
Fellowship, McGill University
COURSES
Pomona College, 2005-
·
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
·
Queer
Theory and the Bible
·
Gender
and Religion
·
Interpreting Religious Worlds
·
Life, Love, and Suffering, in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
·
The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture
·
Elementary Classical Hebrew (three semester sequence)
·
Prison, Punishment, Redemption (community engagement course)
·
Feminisms in Community (community organizing with a focus on
prisons, with community engagement component)
·
Messiahs
and the Millennium
·
Gender and Women’s Studies Senior Seminar
·
Religious Studies Senior Seminar
·
Pomona College Academy for Youth Success (PAYS), summer research
mentor for underserved local youth
St. Bonaventure University 2003-2005
·
Foundational
Religious Texts of the Western World
·
Contemporary
Biblical Interpretation
·
First Wave Feminism and Religion
·
Women and the Christian Tradition
·
The Intellectual Journey
Barnard College, 2002-2003
· Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
· Gender and Religion
·
Religion and
American Film
· Millennium: Apocalypse and Utopia
·
Feminist Texts
until World War II
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Professional Associations:
Ø
American Academy of Religion
Ø
Society of Biblical Literature
Ø
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Ø
Cultural Studies Association
Ø
Association for Jewish Studies
Editorial Boards:
Ø
Political Theology, 2014-present
Ø
Journal for the Study of the
Old Testament,
2013-present
Ø
Journal of Biblical
Literature,
2013-2015
Ø
Journal of Biblical
Reception,
2013-2015
Ø
The Bible and Critical Theory, 2003-present
Ø
Journal of Religion and
Popular Culture, 2011-2014
Ø
Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 2007-2014
Ø
Semeia Studies Monograph series, 2005-2010
Society of Biblical Literature
Ø
Annual
Meeting Program Committee member, 2013-present
Ø
Bible
and Cultural Studies Section, Chair 2007 to
2009, Co-Chair 2004-2006,
2009-2012; Steering Committee member, 2002-2003,
Ø
Semiotics and Exegesis Section, Steering Committee Member,
1999-2001
Canadian Society for Biblical Studies
Ø
Reading Bible, Gender and Theory Seminar, Co-Chair 1998–2005
Ad Hoc Reviewer:
Ø Biblical Interpretation
Ø Journal of Feminist Studies
in Religion
Ø National Women’s Studies
Association Journal
Ø Teaching Theology and
Religion
Ø Palgrave Macmillan Press
Ø Oxford University Press
Ø Fordham University Press
Ø Scholar and Feminist Online
RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Keynote
Address, “Carceral Technologies, Religious Affects,
U.S. Theopolitics,” at the Bible in Politics conference,
Center for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible, St. Mary’s University Twickenham, London, June 2-3, 2017.
“Faith-based
Prison Programs and the Affective Circulation of Interest and Debt,” paper given
at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, November 18-22, 2016.
Respondent
to session on “Frames of Violence at the Intersections of Ancient and Modern,”
Violence and Representations of Violence in Antiquity section, Society of
Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 18-22, 2016.
Panelist,
Review session on Gil Andijar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity, Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Society of Biblical Studies, Calgary Alberta, May 28-30, 2016.
Panelist, Author Meets Critics session on Janet Jakobsen’s forthcoming book, Why Sex, at the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco,
April 2, 2016.
Panelist, Author Meets Critic session on Mayra Rivera’s
recent book, Poetics of the Flesh, at
the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, April 1, 2016.
“Roundtable of Scholars Doing Academic Work at the
Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, Religion, Biblical Studies & Theology.” St. Mary’s College of
California, March 31, 2016.
Invited
lecture, “Moving from Disgust to Humor in Joshua 2: Rahab’s Queer Affect.” St. Mary’s College of California, March 30, 2016.
Invited
paper, “Affective Interest, Carceral Technologies, Theopolitical Subjectivities,” at Affect and Divinity: Affect Theory
and Theologies, Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, Drew University,
March 18-20, 2016.
Respondent,
Author Meets Critic session on my book The
Babylon Complex, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
Atlanta GA, November 20-24, 2015.
Panelist,
“The State of Political Theology Today,” at the annual meeting of the American
Academy of Religion, Atlanta GA, November 20-24, 2015.
“In Whose
Interest?: Biblical Christianity and the Prison
Industrial Complex, ” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of
Biblical Literature, Atlanta GA, November 20-24, 2015.
Invited
lecture, “The Temptation of Noah: The Debate over Violence to Women and to the
World in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah” the University of Auckland, September
14, 2015; University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 15, 2015; University of
Lethbridge, October 28, 2015.
Invited
lecture, “Biblicized Biopolitics
and U.S. Theopolitics: Religion, Bodies, Democracy,
Economy,” University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 15, 2015.
Invited
lecture, “Biblicized Biopolitics
and the Babylon Complex,” Columbia University, Institute for Religion, Culture
and Public Life, New York,
October 1, 2015.
“The Biopolitical Bible: Conservative Christianity, Capitalized
Bodies, and the Subject of Interest in the U.S,” paper presented at the Radicalism,
Violence, and Religious Texts Colloquium, University of Auckland, September 11,
2015.
“More
than Global Citizenship: How Religious Studies Expands Participation in Global
Communities,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Cultural Studies
Association, Riverside, May 22, 2015.
“Surveillance,
Threat, Scripture: Psalm 139 and the Affective Shaping of Political
Subjectivity,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of
Biblical Studies, Ottawa, May 30-June1, 2015.
“Psalm 139 and Affect,” paper presented
at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego,
November 21-14, 2014.
“‘Sick
Democracy’ and the Subject of Interest,” paper presented at Love in the Time
of Capital, Yale University, May 8-9, 2014.
Panelist
on the “War on Women” panel at the annual meeting of the American Academy of
Religion, Baltimore, November 23-26, 2013.
“The
Bible as Ideological Affect: What These Words Can Do to You,” paper presented
at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore,
November 23-26, 2013.
“Some
Questions about the Intersection of Queer Theory and Religion,” paper prepared
for the conference At the Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion, Barnard
College, November 20-21, 2013.
“Babel
and the Fear of Same-Sex Marriage: Mapping Conservative Constellations,” paper
presented at the inaugural conference for the international Journal of
Biblical Reception, Princeton University, February 11-13, 2013.
Respondent
to Peterson Toscano’s Transfigurations. At the Annual Meeting of the
American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 17-20, 2012.
“Son
of Man and U.S. Imperialism.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 17-20, 2012.
Panelist
for a panel review of Burton Mack’s Myth and the Christian Nation and Christian
Mentality (London: Equinox, 2008 and 2011).
“From
Babel to Biopolitics: Josephus, Theodemocracy, and the Regulation of the
Family.” Paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society of
Biblical Literature, Amsterdam, July 22-26.
Panelist
for panel review of Antonio Negri’s The Labor of Job (Duke University
Press, 2009). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical
Literature, San Francisco, November 19-22, 2011.
“Revenge
on the Whore: Literalist Allegory and the Violence of.
Scripturalization.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society
of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 19-22, 2011.
“Babel,
Filiation, and the Dea(r)th of Democracy.” Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Fredericton, NB, May
29-31, 2011.
“Tolerating
Babel: The Bible, Film, and the Family in U.S. Biopolitics.” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta,
November 20-23, 2010.
“Torture
by the Book: Psalm 137 after Abu Ghraib.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 20-23, 2010.
“Torture
by the Book: Psalm 137 after Abu Ghraib.” Paper presented at the Canadian
Society of Biblical Studies, Montreal, Quebec, May 29-31, 2010.
“By
the Book: Biblical Allegory and Torture.” Paper presented at the Radcliffe
Institute Exploratory Seminar on Christianity and Torture, Harvard University,
June 6-9, 2010.
“From
Disgust to Humor: Rahab’s Queer Affect.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November 21-24, 2009.
Panelist
for on a review panel of Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor
of R. S. Sugirtharajah at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical
Literature, New Orleans, November 21-24, 2009.
Panelist
for a session entitled “Student Learning Outcomes in the Liberal Arts,” at the
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November
21-24, 2009.
Cofacilitated
part of a workshop, “Pedagogies for Civic Engagement,” at the American Academy
of Religion annual meeting in Montreal, November 9-10, 2009.
Respondent
to Stephen Moore’s paper “Metonymies of Empire: Sexual Humiliation and Gender
Masquerade in the Book of Revelation” in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar,
“Homosexualities, fromAntiquity to the Present” at UCLA, Thursday Oct. 15, 2009.
“From
Disgust to Humor: Nonheteronormative Racialization and the Transvaluation of
Affect in Joshua 2.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Society of Biblical Studies, Ottawa, Ont., May 24-26, 2009.
“Regularizing
Sexuality in the Biopolitical: Babylon as Political Symbol in U.S. Culture.”
Guest lecture for the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University
of North Florida, March 26, 2009.
“From
Disgust to Humor: Nonheteronormative Racialization and the Transvaluation of
Affect in Joshua 2.” Paper given to the Feminist Studies in Religion group at
the University of Chicago Divinity School on February 12, 2009.
“Regulating
the Polis(sexual): Babylon as Political Symbol in U.S. Culture.” Lecture for
Ropes Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of Cincinnati on February 10-11, 2009.
“Feminist
Biblical Studies: Interrogating Empires in Diverse Contexts.” Panel discussant,
at the annual meeting of the the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston,
November 22-25, 2008.
Respondent
to session: Utopia, Hope and the Fantasy of Violence in Jeremiah, at the annual
meeting of the the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 22-25,
2008.
“Empire’s
Allure: Babylon, Conservative Discourse, and the State of Exception.” Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies,
Vancouver, B.C., June 1-3, 2008.
Panelist for the differences volume “God and
Country,” at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, New York,
NY, May 22-24, 2008.
“The Anti-Christs Get Married: Heteronormativity and the
Human.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association.” Long Beach, CA, April 24-27, 2008 (invited).
“Theologico-Political Resonance: Carl Schmitt between the
Neocons and the Theonomists.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Academy of Religion. San Diego, Nov. 16-19, 2007.
“‘Effects of Grace’: Detranscendentalizing.” Paper presented
at the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium VII. Planetary Loves:
Postcoloniality, Gender, and Theology. Drew University, Nov. 1-4, 2007
(invited).
“Illuminations.” Panel discussant at the Boston Court
Theater presentation of Gilgamesh, Pasadena, March 29, 2007 (invited).
“Ms. Job and the Problem of God.” Paper presented at the
conference “Little Women: Lesser Known Characters from the Hebrew Bible,”
convened by the Luce Program for Scripture and Literary Arts, Boston
University, March 11-13, 2007 (invited).
Respondent for panel on How Hysterical: Identification
and Resistance in the Bible and Film (Runions, Palgrave, 2003). Paper
presented at the annual general meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
Washington, D.C., November 18-21, 2006 (invited).