Education
Honors
Professional
Societies and Groups
Post-Graduate
Pursuits
Employment
History
Publications
1982: Ph. D.
Yale University Graduate School,
Department of Religious Studies, Theology
1974: M.A.R.
Westminster Theological Seminary,
Philadelphia, PA
1972: B. S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA
1999: training grant
from the Committee On Research
and Special Training (CORST) of the American
Psychoanalytic Association
1985: Summer Research
Grant from Loyola Marymount
University, Los Angeles, CA
1984: Summer Grant
from Loyola Marymount University to
develop an interdisciplinary honors seminar in
philosophy and theology
1982: Research Grant
from the Deutsche Akademische
Austauschdienst
1980-1981: Kanzer Fellowship from the Kanzer Fund for
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
1979-1980: Douglas Clyde MacIntosh Fellowship in Theology and
Philosophy of Religion
1975-1979: Yale University Fellowship
1968: National Merit Scholarship
III. Professional societies and groups
Affiliate Member, American Psychoanalytic Association,
1999 - present.
Candidate, New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, 1987 - present.
Member, American Academy of Religion, 1982 - present.
Member, College Theology Society, 1992 - present.
Secretary, New Orleans Regional College Theology Society,
Spring 1993 - Spring 1996.
Participant, "Study Group on Infant Research and Psychoanalysis"
in New Orleans,
including the Harris Fellows at School of
Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana State University, Medical
Center and child
psychoanalysts from the New Orleans
Psychoanalytic Institute, Fall 1997 - present.
Participant, Applied Psychoanalysis Group, New
Orleans
Psychoanalytic Institute, Fall 1990 - 1994.
Participant, "Psychology and Religion Reading Group", NewOrleans,
directed by Prof. Vernon Gregson, Fall 1990 - Spring 1993.
IV. Post-graduate educational pursuits
July 1996 - present: Research in psychoanalysis through training
in
psychoanalytic therapy and clinical process as research
candidate under the auspices of the American Psychoanalytic
Association and the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute
1996-present: Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
1990-1996: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
1987-1990: paralegal and editor at law firms in the Los Angeles area
1982-1987:
Assistant Professor of Theology,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1978-1981: Teaching Assistantships at Yale University, New Haven, CT
"The Naked Woman and the Naked Self: Kierkegaard, Feminism, and Contingency", Kierkegaard, Feminism, and Postmodernism, Mark Lloyd Taylor and William J. Cahoy, eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming).
"Theory Making, Transference, and Anthropology: On D.Z Phillips’ Rejection of Nonfoundationalist Theorizing." Horizons, 22/1 (Spring 1995) 29-48.
"Religious Experience, Human Finitude, and the Cultural-Linguistic Model." Horizons, 20/2 (Fall 1993) 241-259.
"Human Finitude and the Concept of Women's Experience." Modern Theology, 9/1 (January, 1993) 67-85.
"Matthew Fox: On the Goodness of Creation and Finitude", Listening 24/2 (Spring, 1989) 54-72.
"Narrative Approaches to Human Personhood: Agency, Grace, and Innocent Suffering", Philosophy and Theology 1/4 (Summer, 1987) 305-333.
"Nature and Spirit: Agency and Concupiscence in Hauerwas and Rahner", The Journal of Religious Ethics 15/1 (Spring, 1987) 14-32.
"Karl Rahner on Materiality and Human Knowledge" The Thomist 49/3 (July, 1985) 367-386.
"God and
the Unconscious: Karl Rahner, Justification by Faith, and the Freudian
Unconscious", Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1982.
"Protestant spiritualities." An article in The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality , Michael Glazier, Inc., 1993.
"Fundamentalism." An article in The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality , Michael Glazier, Inc., 1993.
"Estonians,
history, immigration, cultural contributions of." An article forthcoming
in Dictionary of Multiculturalism, Salem Press, 1993.
D.
book reviews
Book review of Jo Ann Kay McNamara's Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia. Theology Today.
Book Review of Lisa Isherwood and Dorothea McEwan's Introducing Feminist Theology. Theology Today 54/1 (April, 1994) 188.
Book Review of Richard Viladesau's Answering for Faith: Christ and the Human Search for Salvation. The Thomist 54/1 (January, 1990) 176-180.
Book Review of Walter Lowe's Evil and the Unconscious, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22/1-2 (1987) 95-98.
Book Review of Essays in Phenomenological Theology, eds. Steven W. Laycock and James G. Hart, The Thomist 51/4 (October, 1987) 727-732.
VII. Papers and presentations for professional conferences
“Selfhood and Difference,” presented at the Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection section of the national meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Philadelphia, November 1995.
“Constructed Knowledge of Human Nature: On Being Both a Cyborg and a Human Creature,” a paper delivered in March, 1994 at the Dallas meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. (A revised version of this paper was presented at the Loyola University, Religious Studies Department Faculty Seminar, Fall, 1994.)
"Transference in Theory Making: D.Z Phillips on the Critics of Foundationalism," a paper delivered in March, 1993 at the Dallas meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies.
"The Anxiety of Influence: Teaching, Objectivity, and Countertransference", a paper submitted (not accepted) for presentation at a conference on "Pedagogy and the Personal" at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
"Religious Experience, Human Finitude, and the Cultural-linguistic Model," a paper delivered in March, 1992 at the Dallas meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies.
Response to Frederick Sontag's paper, "The Metaphysics of McFague", presented at the meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, March, 1990.
"Finite Perfection: Concupiscence and Affectivity", a paper presented at the national meeting of the College Theology Society, Consultation on the Role of Affectivity in Theology, May, 1987.
Response to James Wm. McClendon, Jr. 's paper, "How is Christian Morality Universalizable?" presented at the meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, March, 1987.
"Individualism: Sin or Virtue?" a paper presented at a colloquium on "Individualism in America: The Glory or Shame of American Culture?" sponsored by the Loyola Marymount University Philosophical Society, April, 1986.
"Narrative, Christian Anthropology and God's Grace", a paper presented at the AAR national conference, Narrative Interpretation and Theology Group, November, 1985.
"The Limits
of Human Agency", a paper presented at a conference on "Narrative, Character,
Community, and Ethics" at the University of Dayton, November, 1984.
courses taught
at Loyola New Orleans:
Philosophy of Religion (graduate course)
Psychology of Religion (graduate course)
Theology in the 19th and 20th Centuries
(graduate course)
Modern Christian Thought (majors course)
Christianity and Culture (honors course)
Introduction to World Religions
20th Century Religious Thought
Feminism and Theology
Psychology and Religion
at Loyola Marymount University:
Arguments for and against Christian theism
Foundationalist and non-foundationalist approaches
to Christian apologetics
Freud's psychology and his criticism of religion
Introduction to Christianity: a systematic and
philosophical approach
Christian anthropology and the anthropological
assumptions of some psychological
approaches to human personhood Introduction
to Christianity: an historical approach
Protestant thought from the Reformation to the
present
IX. Service to Loyola University New Orleans and to the New Orleans Community
Service on university, college, and departmental committees:
Member, University Board of Appeals. Fall 1995 - Spring 1997.
Member, Elections Committee. Fall 1994-Spring 1995.
Member, Jesuit Identity Task Force; member of subcommittee for planning and publicizing a talk by Fr. Bowler. Fall 1994 - Spring 1995.
Member, Inclusive Language Committee, sponsored by Loyola Campus Ministry. Spring 1994
Member, Women's Studies Advisory Committee, Loyola University, New Orleans. Fall 1990 - present.
Senator,
Loyola University Senate, Fall 1990 - Spring 1991.
Special service for the benefit of Loyola:
Adviser to Religious Studies Department majors and minors. Fall 1996 - Spring 1997, Fall 1998 - present.
Coordinator, Yamauchi Lectures in Religion Series, sponsored by the Loyola University Department of Religious Studies. Fall 1994 - Spring 1997.
Faculty adviser, Women's Issues Organization, Loyola University, New Orleans. Spring, 1991-Fall 1995.
Guest lecture for Prof. Paul Murray’s graduate course, Counseling and Philosophy, Education Department, Loyola University, Spring 1995.
A public lecture, "Sex and Finitude: The Social Construction of Women's Experience," delivered on October 6, 1991 as part of the Loyola Lecture Series on Religion.
A talk for
students, "What Do Men and Women Want in Relationships?", presented
at Buddig Hall student residence, Spring 1992.
Service to the New Orleans community:
A class taught at Notre Dame Seminary on "Philosophy of Religion", Spring 1996.
A videotaped presentation for Notre Dame Seminary on "Post-liberal theology", 1996.
A talk presented at numerous New Orleans area parishes, "Mortal Sin, Venial Sin, and Fundamental Option", Fall 1990 - Spring 1991.