Speakers
- Steed Vernyl Davidson
- McCormick Theological Seminary
Steed Vernyl Davidson is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago IL. He also serves as the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs. With research interests in critical interpretations of biblical texts, their cultural reception, and the legacies that attend such readings his work investigates the production and reading of texts through critical lenses such as postcolonial studies, gender and feminist studies, critical geography, and critical race theory. Davidson is the author of Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of Selected Texts of the Book of Jeremiah (2012) and Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective (2017), as well as several essays and journal articles. He is currently working on an anthology of essays focused on otherness in prophetic literature and is co-authoring the work Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed both to be published by Bloomsbury.