Associate Professor of New Testament and English Literature

Education:

Ph.D. McGill University (New Testament, 2000)

M.A. University of Manitoba (English Literature, 2008)

M.A. Providence Seminary (New Testament, 1994)

B.A. Lakehead University (History, 1991)

Contact Information

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Publications

Eden's Other Residents: The Bible and Animals (Wipf & Stock/Cascade)

2. Book Publications

The Gospel According to Bob Dylan: The Old, Old Story for Modern Times. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.

Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009.

Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture. New York: Continuum, 2004.

The Significance of Parallels Between 2 Peter and Other Early Christian Literature. Academia Biblica 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature / Leiden: Brill, 2002.

3. Edited Volumes

With Mary Ann Beavis. Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012.

Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music. New York: Continuum, 2005.

4. Recent Journal Articles/Book Chapters

"Raging Against the Machine: Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Persona and the Sound of Apocalypse-Inspired Schadenfreude." In Anthems of Apocalypse: Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought. Ed. Christopher Partridge. 43-54. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012.

"Bob Dylan's Bible." In The Oxford Handbook of Reception History of the Bible. Ed. Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, Christopher Rowland, and Jonathan Roberts. 355-68. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

"The Living Word Among the Living Dead: Hunting for Zombies in the Pages of the Bible." In Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead. Ed. Christopher M. Moreman and Cory James Rushton. 87-99. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

“The Far Side of Religion: Notes on the Prophet Gary Larson.” Direction 39.2 (2010): 220-33.

“Some Novel Remarks about Popular Culture and Religion: Salman Rushdie and the Adaptation of Sacred Texts.” In The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter. Semeia Studies. Ed. Philip Culbertson and Elaine Wainwright. 13-25. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010. 

"Death Is Not the End: Artistic Collaboration and a Musical Resurrection in Bob Dylan's Chronicles." Montague Street: The Art of Bob Dylan 1 (2009): 24-31.

"Teaching Biblical Hermeneutics Through Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories." Teaching Theology and Religion 12.2 (2009): 151-61.

"Arcade Fire's Parodic Bible." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 20 (2009): [www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc].

"Going Back to the Prairies: Neil Young's Heterotopia in the Post-9/11 World." In West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature. Ed. Sue Sorensen. 205-18. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2008.

"Confronting Colonial Religion and the Anxiety of Influence in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow." In Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent: Canadian Perspectives on Contextual Feminist Theology. Ed. Mary Ann Beavis, with Elaine Guillemin and Barbara Pell. 371-91. Ottawa: Novalis, 2008.

"'Wipe the Dust Off Your Feet': Glimpses of the Rejected Missionary in Literary Representations of Late Eighteenth-Century North America." Transformation 25.4 (2008): 195-206.

5. Reviews appearing in

The Ark: Journal of Catholic Concern for Animals
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Didaskalia
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Journal for Religious and Cultural Theory
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Philosophy in Review
Review of Biblical Literature
Toronto Journal of Theology

Course Syllabi and Program Progress Sheets

212 15 20th and 21st Century Literature Fall 2011

135 42 Ecology and the Bible

134 23 General Writings: 1 and 2 Peter