Seminars


Unlike traditional conference panels in which each participant delivers his or her entire paper at the conference, the following seminars will focus on guided roundtable discussions of the issues raised by a group of position papers. To that end, participants submitted their papers in advance of the conference so seminar leaders could read them, formulate discussion questions, and circulate the papers and questions to participants. Individual seminar leaders determine each seminar’s precise schedules and seminar requirements. Auditors are welcome to sit in on these seminars as space permits.

Seminar Topics:

  • Bible Translation and the Long Reformation

Vivienne Westbrook (National Taiwan University), Leader
Participants: Ellie G. Bagley (Middlebury College), Jamie Ferguson (University of Houston), Meredith Neuman (Clark University), David Norton (Victoria University of Wellington), Beth Quitslund (Ohio University), and Jeffrey Shoulson (University of Miami)

  • The Bible and Early Modern Radicals: Milton, Bunyan and Others

Angelica Duran (Purdue University) and Kevin Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University), Leaders
Participants: Mary Maxine Brown (Purdue University), Matthew Gallaher (Clark College), Emily Griffith Jones (Boston University), Gretchen Minton (Montana State University), Michael Noschka (Arizona State University), Aaron Pratt (Yale University), Beth Sharb (University of Virginia), Brady Spangenberg (Purdue University), Brad Spaulding (Indiana Wesleyan University), Matthew Stallard (Ohio University), and M. Scott Stenson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

  • The KJV and 19th-century American Literature

Greg Jackson (Rutgers University), Leader
Participants: Peter Balaam (Carleton College), Jonathan Cook (Notre Dame Academy), Christopher A. Link (SUNY New Paltz), Phillip J. Maciak (University of Pennsylvania), and Mark A. McCullough (Ave Maria University)

  • The KJV and African American Literature/Culture

Joycelyn Moody (University of Texas, San Antonio), Leader
Participants: Joi Carr (Pepperdine University), Zach Hutchins (UNC Chapel Hill), Claudia May (University of Birmingham), Jennifer McFarlane-Harris (University of Michigan), Marlon Moore (UNC Wilmington), and Blake Wilder (The Ohio State University)

  • Women Reading/Writing the Bible

Michele Osherow (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Leader
Participants: Rhoda Cairns (Briercrest College), Andrew Crow (The Ohio State University), Jane Kim (Cornell University), Elizabeth Law, Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa), Jill Treftz (Marshall University), and Heather Walton (University of Glasgow)

  • The Bible and Popular Culture

Jay Twomey (University of Cincinnati), Leader
Participants: Joi Carr (Pepperdine University), Brett Foster (Wheaton College, IL), John Savoie (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Milette Shamir (Tel Aviv University), and Courtney Wilder (Midland Lutheran College)

  • Discussion: The Bible and 19th-century British Literature

Les Tannenbaum and Clare Simmons (The Ohio State University) will lead a discussion with Jane Kim (Cornell University), James Rovira (Tiffin University), and others.