Pacific School of Religion
Assistant Professor of Theology

At GTU since 2006

PhD Drew University, 2005

Phone: 510/849-8227
E-mail: mrivera@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Constructive theology in conversation with feminist and postcolonial theory
  
• Postmodern philosophy
  
• Cultural studies
  
• Latin American liberation theologies
  
• Hispanic theologies
  

Selected Publications

• The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God (Louisville, KY: WJK, forthcoming 2007).
  

• Co-editor with Catherine Keller and Michael Nausner of Postcolonial Theory and Theology (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004). Co-author of Introduction. Author of “God at the Crossroads: A Postcolonial Reading of Sophia.”
  

• “Incarnate Word: Images of God and Reading Practices,” in Randall C. Bailey, Benny Tat-Siong Liew, Fernando F. Segovia (eds.) They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism, Semeia Studies Series (forthcoming).
  

• “Memory of the Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Body,” in Anthony Pinn and Benjamin Valentin, eds., Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans, Popular Culture, and Religious Expression (Durham and London: Duke University, forthcoming).
  

• “Ethical Desires: Toward a Theology of Relational Transcendence,” in Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller, eds., Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (NY, Fordham University Press, 2006).
  

• “Radical Transcendence: A Latina Postcolonial Reading of Divine Otherness,” in Rosemary Radford Ruether and Marion Grau, eds., Interpreting the Postmodern (Edinburg, UK: T&T Clark, 2006).