- My Vocation As Teacher
- As a teacher, I believe that transformative praxis begins with each of us in our everyday lives. Theological reflection is crucial because the meaning of our lives is often understood through the prism of religious experience. Therefore, theological reflection must be bold and imaginative as well as grounded in the material reality of history of peoples' lives. Furthermore, theological reflection is constructive as it examines the conditions of our present reality even as we dare to construct and hope in conditions that would be emancipatory for all. This means that theological reflection be in conversation with one another. I believe that we learn best from one another through listening and what Gayatri Spivak refers to as “non-coercive rearrangement of desire.” My hope is that through this learning from one another, our own desire for change emerges from within each person.
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- Education
PhD, Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies (Constructive Theology), Drew University 2003
MDiv, Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary 1992
BA, Double Major: Religious Studies/English Literature; Minor: Political Science, North Central College 1989
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- Academic Work History
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Associate Professor of Theology, July 2009-
Phillips Theological Seminary, 2005-2009 Assistant Professor of Theology
Fordham University, 2004-2005 Post-doctoral Fellow in Theology
Drew University, Adjunct Professor Spring 2004
Fordham University, 2003-2004 Adjunct Professor
New York Theological Seminary, 1999-2001 Teaching Assistant
Bard College, Spring 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Select Church and Professional Workshops and Leadership
Theology and Religious Reflection Section, American Academy of Religion, Steering Committee 2009-
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group, American Academy of Religion, Steering Committee 2009-
Women of Color Doctoral Scholars Program, United Methodist Church: Member of the Committee of Mentors for women of color doctoral candidates. 2008-
Asian Theological Summer Institute, The Lutheran Theological Seminary and Henry Luce Foundation. Faculty Mentor to Asian and Asian American doctoral students. 2008-
Faculty Board Member, PANAAWTMN, 2009-
Dissertation Committee member, Boston University
Emerging Theological Initiative, Westminster John Knox Press, Member of the Editorial Board and Consultant
Faculty Board Member, Pacific Asian North American and Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM), 2009-
Anglican Theological Review, Board of Trustees, 2009-
Asian Summer Theological Institute, faculty advisor, 2008-
Postcolonial Theologies (Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America), Faculty Advisory Board, 2008-
Work Group for Constructive Theology, 2006-
JustHope, Grassroots Collaborative Organization, Nicaragua/U.S., Advisory Board Member
American Academy of Religion:
Executive Board Member, Status of Women in the Profession, 2009-2012
Steering Committee Member, Women of Color Scholarship and Activism, 2008-
Co-chair, Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group, 2005-2007
Steering Committee member, Asian North American Religion, Culture, Society, 2001-2005, 2007, 2008
Co-chair, Bible, Theology and Postmodernity Group, 2007-
Steering Committee Member, Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity, 2005-2007
Group Renewal External Examiner, 2006
Asian Pacific Americans and Religion Research Initiative (APARRI)
Association of Asian American Studies
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- Select Scholarly Lectures, Workshops and Leadership
The Oklahoma Conference for Community and Justice/Interfaith Trialogue 2008, “Racialization of Religion/s: A Postcolonial Interpretation” Tulsa, OK (Peace Academy) March 2008
Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology, Korean North American Theology Group, American Academy of Religion, November 2007
“Queering Postcolonial Theory,” Consultation on Race, Gender and Sexuality, Pre-AAR meeting, San Diego 2007
Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium VII, Planetary Loves: Postcoloniality, Gender and Theology, “Loves' Multiplicity: Jeong and Spivak's Notes Toward Planetary Love,” Drew Graduate School, November 2007
Religion and Empire: An Academic Symposium, “Biopolitics of Empiring as Raced and Gendered: A Theological Response,” Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, October 2007
The Workgroup on Constructive Theology, “The Divinity of Jesus(?): Postcolonial Perspectives,” Vanderbilt Divinity School, April 2007
“Postcolonial Theological Anthropology,” Fordham University, New York, February 2007
“Race, Sexuality, Sovereignty and Postcolonial Theology,” Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, January 2007
“Transgressive Power of Mimicry: Crossing Bhabha and Kristeva,” University of Chicago-The Divinity School, January 2007
“White Racism, Feminism and Postcolonial Christology: Toward an Asian American Postcolonial Theology,” The University of Chicago, Center for Race, Culture and Politics,January 2007
“White Racism, Coloniality and Asian American Theology,” Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, January 2007
“Postcolonial Feminist Christology,” Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, December 2006
Book Review Panelist for Ways of Being: Ways of Reading, Society of Biblical Literature, Washington DC 2006
“Abject Strangers: U.S. National Identity Post 9/11,” Asian Pacific Religion Research Initiative, University of California, Berkeley, August 2006
“Violence and Terror within the Empire; Asian American Experience in the U.S.,” Women of Color Scholars 20th Anniversary, Chicago, August 12 2006
“Postcolonial Interpretations of the Church,” World Council of Churches-North American Consultation, New York, November 2004
“Towards Korean American Feminist Constructive Theology,” New York Theological Seminary, June 2004
“Korean American Feminist Prehensions: Whiteheadian Relationality, Postcolonial Difference and the Power of Jeong,” Fifth International Conference on A. Whitehead, Seoul, Korea, May 2004
“Theology of Jeong and Pastoral Care from Feminist Perspective,” Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea, May 2004
Feminist Appropriation of Jeong for Theology of Mutuality,” Methodist Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea, May 2004
“Praxis of Jeong as a Fundamental Teaching of Jesus” Busan Presbyterian College and Seminary, Busan, Korea, May 2004
“The Intersection of Race, Gender and Religion: A Korean American Postcolonial Feminist Negotiation of Hybridity,” UCLA, April 2004
“Negotiating Boundaries of Difference and Identity: Theorizing and Theologizing Gender, Race and the Korean American Immigrant Experience,” New Brunswick Theological Seminary, April 2004
“Transgressive Hybridity/Transformative Hermeneutics: Challenge of Reading from The Third Space,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 2003
“Theologizing from The Third Space: Towards a Postcolonial Christology of Jeong,” Princeton Theological Seminary, October 2003
“Under Erasure: Reflections on Hybridity, Ambivalence and Authority,” Princeton Theological Seminary, October 2003
“Religious Education in a Postmodern Multicultural Context from Korean American Feminist Perspective,” Yale Divinity School, May 2003
“Politics of Identity, Hybridity and Postcolonial Theology,” Yale Divinity School, February 2003
“Theologizing Hybridity: Negotiating for a Feminist Christology of Jeong,” Asian Pacific Religion Research Initiative, University of California-Berkeley, 2003
“Towards a Korean American Postcolonial Feminist Christology: Unraveling Han, Revealing Jeong,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2002
“Re-Routing Roots: Transgressive Power of Hybridity,” Annual Conference in Transdisciplinary Theological Studies, Drew University, 2002
“Searching for Rutabagas: Im/positioning Korean American Feminist Politics of Roots/Routes,” Asian Pacific Religion Research Initiative, University of California-Berkeley, 2002
“Between Home and Location: Hermeneutics of Dis/Placement,” The Association of Korean Christian Scholars of North America, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2001
“Hermeneutics from Postcolonial Korean American Feminist Perspective,” American Academy of Religion/Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, 2001
“Identity Politics, Difference and Postmodernism,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 1996
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- Scholarly Publications
Books
In Proximity to the Other: A Postcolonial Theological Anthropology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming
Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006
Articles
“Cross-ing Life Amid Death: Reading Abdul JanMohamed and Paul” in Semeia Studies, Psychoanalytic Mediations: Reading the Bible Between Marxism and Postcolonialism, ed. Tat-Siong Benny Liew and Erin Runions forthcoming
“Gender and Sexuality in Asian American/Pacific Islander (API) Religious and Theological Studies,” ed. Jane Iwamura and Fumitaka Matsuoka in AOARC Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO), forthcoming
“Teaching to Learn from the Other,” Keeping the Light, ed. Kate Ott and Melanie Harris, forthcoming
Articles in Dawn DeVries and B.A. Gerrish, ed. The New Dictionary of Christian Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press), forthcoming
Four theological essays on Year A for Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, ed. David Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor (Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming)
“Loves' Multiplicity: Jeong and Spivak's Notes Toward Planetary Love” in Planetary Loves: Gayatri Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology, ed. Stephen Moore and Mayra Rivera (Fordham University Press) forthcoming)
A Roundtable Response to Mary Engel's “No-Self and the Calling Given To Anyone,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Fall 2008
“In Honor of Letty Russell” Roundtable Discussant, Religious Studies News, Traci West and Rebecca Alpert, guest editors. Summer 2008
“Violence and Asian American Experience: From Abjection to Jeong” in Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Theology and Religion, ed. Kwok Pui-lan, Rita Nakashima Brock, Seung-Ai Yang and Jung Ha Kim (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007)
“Relating to Household Labor Justly” in Justice In A Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World, ed. Pamela Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters and Laura A. Stivers. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006; Winner: Outstanding Academic Titles, 2007. Choice, v.45, no.05, January 2008
“Transgressive Power of Jeong: A Postcolonial Hybridization of Christology” in Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, ed. Catherine Keller, Michael Nausner, Mayra Rivera (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004)
“Postmodern Politics of Difference and Asian American Identity” in Asian Americans and Christian Identity, ed. Inn Sook Lee and Timothy Son (Seoul, Korea: Voice Publishing House, 1999)
“Embracing Ambiguity,” East Wind: Taoist and Cosmological Implications of Christian Theology, ed. Charles Courtney (New York: University Press of America, 1997)
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- Membership in Academic Societies
- American Academy of Religion
Society of Biblical Literature
Asian/Asian American Studies
American Studies
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- Awards, Recognition, and Academic Degrees
Collaborative Project Grant Recipient for “Postcolonial-Gender-Race-Queer Theory in Practical Theology Consultation” from Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions, 2009
Women Activists in the Academy: Teaching Scholars, Changing Models, Yale University/Union Theological Seminary, May 2007
Wabash Pre-tenure Summer Research Fellowship (Lilly Grant), 2007
Wabash Teaching Workshop for Pre-Tenure Asian/Asian North American Faculty, 2006-2007
Consultation for Asian/Asian North American Scholars, Association of Theological Schools, January 2005 and 2007
Poster Book Panel: Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology, American Academy of Religion, Washington DC, 2006
¨ Fordham University, Post-doctoral Fellow-Theology, 2004-2005.
The United Methodist Church, Women of Color Doctoral Scholars Program, 1994-1998
Numerous scholarships through the United Methodist Church
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- Recent and Upcoming Off-Campus Events
“Crucified Body of Christ and Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer,” January 2010, Bangalore, India
“Theology and Gilles Deleauze and Felix Guattari,” Theology and Continental Philosophy Group, Presider, American Academy of Religion, Montreal 2009
Presentation, “Freeing the Mother-Lode from Mother over-Load: The Difference Institutions Can Make,” American Academy of Religion, Montreal 2009
Review Panelist for They Were All Together in One Place? Toward a Minority Biblical Criticism,” American Academy of Religion, Montreal 2009
Envisioning Postcolonial Theologies to Decolonize the Body of Christ, University of Manchester and United Theological College
“Critical Race Theory, Sexuality and Postcolonial Theology,” Workgroup on Race, Sexuality, Gender and Queer Theory/Theology, Center for the Study of Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Aug. 14-16, 2009
Plenary Speaker, “Baptism and Love in Proximity to the Other,” Epiphany West and Ecumenical Conference: “Baptismal Water: Thicker than Blood,” Church Divinity School of the Pacific, January 2009
Panelist, “Women of Color and the Study of Religion and Theology,” American Academy of Religion, Chicago 2008
“Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion,” Respondent to four presentations, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 2008
“Discipleship and Decolonization-Toward a Decolonizing/Decanonizing Practices of Faith,” Faith Matters Public Forum Series, Tulsa, OK, October 2008
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- Current Research Projects
Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism
Constructive Theology
Gender, Race, Ethnic Studies
Queer, Asian American, Cultural Studies
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