Education 

• BA Sarah Lawrence College 
• Visting student, Wadham College, University of Oxford
•  AM University of Chicago 
• PHD University of Chicago 

Research Interests 

My research interests focus on Apocalyptic Literature, the Pauline Epistles, and the period of post-Apostolic memory. My first book, Trying Man, Trying God: The Divine Courtroom in Early Jewish and Christian Literature (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), argued that scenes of the divine courtroom, though fanciful in nature and often remarkably entertaining, are part of a serious inquiry taking place throughout the Mediterranean as to the nature of divine justice. I am currently working on my second book, an examination of two popular tours of hell in early Christian literature, the Apocalypse of Peter and the Visio Pauli. Tentatively titled Go to Hell: Vicarious Travel with Peter and Paul in Early Christian Literature, the book (under contract with William G. Eerdmans) discusses the visions of hell these texts put forth, including the explanation each text gives for God’s ultimate justice, the way each text anticipates questions from readers and attempts to answer them, and discusses what it means for readers to go on these journeys with the apostolic protagonists. This project puts the Apocalypse of Peter and the Visio Pauli in conversation with travel literature from the Greek and Roman worlds, as well as ways in which we “go to hell” in contemporary society.  

Selected Publications 

Trying Man, Trying God: The Divine Courtroom in Early Jewish and Christian Literature. WUNT II 289; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. (Review: George Parsenios, CBQ 74 [2012], 157-158). 

“The Gospel of Luke,” in The New Testament and Judeophobia (Eric Vanden Ekykel, Sarah Rollins, and Meredith Warren, eds; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, forthcoming).  

“Paul and the Apocalypse of the Gospel,” Interpretation 76.4 (October 2022): 328-38. 

“‘Thus a Teacher Must Be’: Pedagogical Formation in John Chrysostom’s Homilies on 1 and 2 Timothy,” in Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock: Choice, Change, and Conversion. (Robert Matthew Calhoun, James A. Kelhoffer, and Clare K. Rothschild, eds.; WUNT; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021), 233-256. 

“Ephesus, Loca Sancta: The Acts of Timothy and Religious Travel in Late Antiquity,” in The Narrative Self in Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Judith Perkins. (Janet E. Spittler, ed; Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019), 91-120.  

"Timothy and 'Timothy': Crisis Management, Church Maintenance," Early Christianity 5 (2014): 35-67.