Education
- Ph.D., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (Dept. of Comparative Literature)
- M.A.T.S., Bethel Theological Seminary, San Diego, CA
- M.F.A., Perelandra College, Licensed, Online Master’s in Writing Program
- M.A., New College of California, San Francisco, CA
- B.A., Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Courses Taught
- College Composition -- WRI1010
- College Composition: Research -- WRI1016
Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications
A Literary Guide to the Bible, Rowman & Littlefield Publisher (under contract
“Dear World Religions 101 Professor”, Religion & Education, Spring 2021
“To Breed or Not To Breed: The Last Woman’s Bioethics of Sustainability in Facing Extinction,” Confluence, April 2020
“The DNA of Discipleship: Michele Roberts’ Memoir and a Secret Gospel,” Journal of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network, Oxford University Press, Fall 201
“Mrs. Dalloway and the Critics,” chapter in Critical Insights: Mrs. Dalloway, Salem Press, 2011
“Death by Ethanol: Fueling the American Dream (Confessions of a Sugar Addict),” LORE: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, Fall 2009
Editor, Literature and Spirituality, Longman Publishers/Pearson Education, Spring 2009
Editor, Rescuing the Future: A Philosophical Inquiry, by Benedict Freedman, Pryor Pettingill, Winter 2008
Editor, A Philosophical Examination of Tillich’s Theory of Symbolic Meaning, by Truman Grant Madsen, Harvard University Press, Winter 2008
“Thompson’s The Hound of Heaven in Lowry’s Under the Volcano,” The Explicator, Spring 2007
“Clarissa and Cléo (En)durée Suicidal Time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7,” Comparative Literature Studies, Fall 2007
Co-Author, Holy Scrolls: The Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls (graphic novel), LampPost Publications, 2007
Co-Author, What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? Eerdmans Publishing, Spring 2007
Author, Wipe Out: A True Story of Winning (David Walden’s memoir), DaBoop Pub., 2006
Author, Maya Angelou’s “Amazing Peace,” Masterplots: Christian Literature, 2006
Author, Davie Napier’s “Come, Sweet Death,” Masterplots: Christian Literature, 2006
“Absolutamente necesario: The Express Train in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, Chapter 12,” Modernism/modernity, Summer 200
“The Picaresque Landscape in Kafka’s Amerika,” Journal of the Kafka Society, Summer 2004
“Hallowed Ground: Sangre de Cristo in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop,” Christianity & Literature, Spring 2003. Reprinted in Novels for Students, 2004
Editor, On Human Nature: A Symposium at the Jerusalem Center, Pryor Pettingill, 2004
Editor, David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (Bible in Its World), by Baruch Halpern, Eerdmans, 2003
Editor, Proto-Luke: An Alternative Literary Hypothesis to Q, Dominican Biblical Centre, 2002