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

Publications

1. Currently in the works ...  

Editing, with Mary Ann Beavis. The Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture: A Handbook for Students (Sheffield Phoenix Press; fall 2011).

The Gospel According to Bob Dylan: The Old, Old Story for Modern Times (Westminster/John Knox Press; spring 2011).

"The Living Word Among the Living Dead: Hunting for Zombies in the Pages of the Bible" (McFarland; book chapter).

“The Far Side of Religion: Notes on the Prophet Gary Larson” (Direction; fall 2010).

2. Book Publications

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 Volume

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

4. Journal Articles/Book Chapters

"Bob Dylan's Bible." In The Oxford Handbook of Reception History of the Bible. Ed. Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, Christopher Rowland, and Jonathan Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming; fall 2010).

“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. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature (forthcoming; fall 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.

"An Outsider's Notes on the Jehovah's Witnesses' Revelation: Its Grand Climax at Hand!" Journal of Religion and Society 8 (2006): [http://www.creighton.edu/JRS].

"Timothy Findley's Postmodern Flood: Rewriting Genesis in Not Wanted on the Voyage." Didaskalia 17 (2006): 51-63.

"Delighting in the Sufferings of Others: Early Christian Schadenfreude and the Function of the Apocalypse of Peter.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 16.1 (2006): 129-39.

“Wielding Occam’s Razor: Frederik Wisse’s Scholarly Contributions.” In Essays in Honour of Frederik Wisse: Scholar, Churchman, Mentor. ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 33 (2005): 529-40.

"Brainwashed, by George Harrison and the Bhagavad Gita." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 8 (2004): [http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc]

“Crass Casualty or Purposeful Pain?: Psalm 34’s Influence on Peter’s First Letter.” Word & World 24 (2004): 404-11.

“The Prophet Jeremiah, Aung San Suu Kyi, and U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind: On Listening to Bono’s Jeremiad.” Journal of Religion and Society 5 (2003): [http://www.creighton.edu/JRS]. Reprinted in Call Me the Seeker, pp.34-43.

“They Refused Jesus Too: A Biblical Paradigm in the Writings of Bob Dylan.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 1 (2002): [www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc]

“Reflections on the Authorship of 2 Peter.” Evangelical Quarterly 73/4 (2001): 291–309.

“Hints of Homer in Luke 16:19–31?” Didaskalia 10 (1999): 22–33

“How to Approach a Strange Manuscrpt: A Novel(’s) Look at the Historical Task.” ARC 27 (1999): 97–107.

“2 Peter in Recent Research: A Bibliography.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 42 (1999): 673–78.

5. Reviews appearing in

ARC
Didaskalia
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Journal for Religious and Cultural Theory
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Review of Biblical Literature
Toronto Journal of Theology

Employment

St. John's College, Sessional Instructor 2007-
Booth College, Sessional Instructor 2004-
University of Manitoba, Sessional Instructor 2001–2004
McGill University, Sessional Instructor 1998
Providence College, Sessional Instructor 1994–1995
Providence College Faculty, 1998–

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