Early Christianity, New Testatment, Nag Hammadi texts, Gender/Sexuality, Cultural Studies, Affect Theory

Publications

Monographs:

Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging. Fortress Press (forthcoming in Spring 2015).
Re-Reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Pain and Trauma (co-authored with Hal Taussig). Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction (co-authored with Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Justin Lasser and Celene Lillie). Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Articles/Essays:

“Seeing is Feeling: Revelation’s Enthroned Lamb and Ancient Visual Affects,” Biblical Interpretation (forthcoming, 2014).
“The Queer Life of Christian Exceptionalism,” Culture and Religion 15.2 (June 2014): 156-185.
“Institutional Brokenness and Other Quandaries of Feminist Belonging,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 29.2 (Fall 2013).
“The Ekklesia and the Politics of the Meal: Re-thinking 'Christian Identity' in and through Acts,” in Mahl und religiöse Identität im frühen Christentum eds. Matthias Klinghardtand Hal Taussig, 241-278. Tanz Verlag (2012).
“Romance and Danger at Nag Hammadi” The Bible and Critical Theory 8.1 (March 2012): 39-52.
“The Rhetoric of Intimate Spaces: Affect and Performance in the Corinthian Correspondence” Union Seminary Quarterly Review Vol. 62, no. 3-4: 134-151.
“The Thunder: Perfect Mind and Early Christian Conflicts About Gender” The Fourth R Vol. 24, no.1. (January/February 2011): 7-12.
“Re-reading Canonical Identity: A Sexual Ethics of Bible Interpretation” Studies in Gender and Sexuality vol. 11, issue 2 (April 2010): 89-100.