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
- “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
- “Absolutamente necesario: The Express Train in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, Chapter 12,” Modernism/modernity 12.2 (Summer 2005)
- “Hallowed Ground: Sangre de Cristo in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop” Christianity & Literature (Spring 2003),
- Reprinted in Novels for Students, vol. 19, The Gale Group (July 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, by Thomas Brodie, Dominican Biblical Centre (2002)