The Spring 2020 Meeting will take place April 4, 2020, at 2:45 p.m.
McCormick Theological Seminary
Speakers:
Jenny DeVivo – St. Xavier University
Dr. Jenny DeVivo is the Executive Director of Mission and Heritage at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. She received her BA in Religious Studies at Saint Xavier in Chicago, her MA in Theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and her PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity from Loyola University in Chicago.
Rhiannon Graybill – Rhodes College
Rhiannon Graybill is W.J. Millard Professor of Religion and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Graybill is the author of Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (Oxford, 2016). Her current projects include a feminist study of sexual violence in biblical narrative and a commentary on the book of Jonah (the latter co-authored with Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner). She is co-editor of Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements (Lexington, 2019) and a forthcoming volume on Margaret Atwood and the Bible. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, feminist and queer criticism, and the Bible and literature. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, from the University of California, Berkeley (2012).
Troy W. Martin – St. Xavier University
