Reformation, Luther, church history, Middle Ages, sexual violence, rape, domestic violence, biblical interpretation, feminism in medieval thought and Old Testament studies.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
The Book of Genesis. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; Tra edition, 2015.
Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation. Oxford University Press, 2014
“Deborah’s Daughters.” In Women in the Bible, Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics, ed. Robert B. Kruschwitz, 40-48. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2013.
"Disrupting Sacred Time: Angela of Foligno’s Encounter with St. Bartholomew’s Demonic Imposter." Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 37 (2011): 147-166.
"Sexual Abuse and a Theology of Embodiment: Incarnating Healing." In The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused, ed. Andrew J. Schmutzer, 186-196. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011.
“Elizabeth Wilson, the Bible, and Legal Rights of Women in the Nineteenth Century.” Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds 5 (2009): 219-232.
“Envying Jephthah’s Daughter: Judges 11 in the Thought of Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652).” In Strangely Familiar: Protofeminist Interpretations of Patriarchal Texts, ed. Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather E. Weir, 75-91. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.
Dinah’s Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007.
“Dismembering the Adulteress: Sixteenth-Century Commentary on the Narrative of the Levite’s Concubine (Judges 19-21), Seminary Ridge Review 9/2 (2007): 5-24.
“Wisdom’s Voice and Women’s Speech: Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, and Rebecca Cox Jackson,” Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 13 (2007): 41-70.
“The Feast of the Purification in the Liturgical Mysticism of Angela of Foligno,” Mystics Quarterly 32 (2006): 35-67.
“John Chrysostom’s Critique of Spousal Violence,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 12 (2004): 413-42.
“A Fiery Heat: Images of the Holy Spirit in the Writings of Hildegard of Bingen,” Mystics Quarterly 30 (2004): 76-95.
“Virgin and Martyr: Divine Protection from Sexual Assault in the Peristephanon of Prudentius.” In Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity: Imagining Truth, ed. John Cavadini, 169-91. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
“The Rape of Dinah: Luther’s Interpretation of a Biblical Narrative.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 775-91.
“Spiritual Friendship in the Vita of Beatrice of Nazareth.” Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 3:2 (1997): 99-140.
“Revelation 12: Female Figures and Figures of Evil.” Word & World 15 (1995): 175-81.
“The Woman and the Dragon: Feminist Reflections on Sexual Violence, Evil, and Bodily Resurrection.” dialog 33 (1994): 135-41.
“Marguerite of Navarre Breaks Silence about Sixteenth-Century Clergy Sexual Violence.” Lutheran Quarterly 7 (1993): 171-90.
“Toward a Feminist Eucharistic Theology and Piety.” dialog 30 (1991): 221-26.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Katherine, Morning Star,” Lutheran Woman Today, December 2008.
“The Surprising Women in Jesus’ Family Tree.” Lutheran Woman Today, April 2008.
“The 95 Theses Today: No Place for Purgatory.” The Lutheran, November 2007.
“Traveling Back in Time: All Saints’ Day 1517.” Lutheran Woman Today, November 2007.