Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Professor of Biblical Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1992

Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary
M.A., Vanderbilt University
B.A., Canisius College

Phone: 510/549-5000
E-mail: ghenspia@jstb.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Prophets
• Deuteronomistic History
• Feminist Readings
• New Historicism and Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

• Of Methods, Monarchs, and Meanings--An Approach to Socio-Rhetorical Exegesis (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1996).
• "Forms of Violence and the Violence of Forms: Two Cannibal Mothers Before a King," in Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion (Fall 1998).
• "Cultural Studies and the Prophetic Tradition," in Theological Trends, The Way (Apr. 1997), 148-157.
• "When Cultures Meet in the Parish," Church (Summer 1996), 15-18.
• "Lyotard," in Handbook of Psotmodern Biblical Interpretation, ed. A.K.M. Adam (St. Louis: Chalis Press, 2000).