Susan A. Calef, BA, PhD

Department

• Theology

Position

• Assistant Professor

• graduate course on Scriptural Foundations of Spirituality
• required course for the WGS minor: Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies
• undergraduate courses on Biblical Tradition (Sickness & Healing; Gender, Economy, & Violence)
• undergraduate elective Bible, Spirituality, & American Public Life
• upper-division undergraduate course on Women & the Bible

Books

• , in M.G. Lawler & G. S. Risch, Practical Theology: Perspectives from the Plains (2000), 78-103
• , Todd Salzman et al., eds., Marriage in the Catholic Tradition. Scripture, Tradition, and Experience (2004), 53-65
• , R. Simkins and G. Risch, Religion and the Family (2008), 223-246
• , in R. Miller, ed., Women and the Shaping of Catholicism (2008), 12-37
• , Oxford University Press, 2016, RG 428-442
• , 309-319
• , 49-79
• , 1549-1554
• , 102-106
• , in R. Miller, ed., Prayer in the Catholic Tradition, 18-40
• , Amy-Jill Levine, ed., A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha, 163-185

Articles

• , 41, 397-399
• , Journal of Religion & Society, Supplment Series 10, 106-131
• , March 2011, 23-26
• , 5, 1-5
• , 5, 21-44
• , Journal of Religion and Society, Supplement Series 5
• , 1-5
• , 69, 847-849
• , December 2016, 8-12
• , 66, 930-931
• , in C. Carvalho, ed., Anselm Companion to the New Testament (2014), 189-199

Publications

• , New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 5 (2009), 550
• , New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol 4 (2009), 402-403
• , October 2004, 22-26
• , May 27, 2005 , 13-15
• , Creighton University Magazine , Summer 2006, 15-21
• , November 26, 2004 , 8-9

Editing and Reviews

• , Journal of Religion and Society 7 (2005).
• , Theological Studies 64 (2003) , 658-659
• , Theological Studies 62 (2001) , 610-611
• , The Journal of Religion 81 (2001) , 278-280
• , 76, no. 3, 634
• , 370-371
• , Journal of Religion and Society 3 (2001)
• , Theological Studies 62 (2001), 201-202
• , Theological Studies 61 (2000) , 788-789
• , The Journal of Religion 80 (2000) , 120-22
• , The Journal of Religion 78 (1998) , 621-22

General

• , Journal of Religion and Society 2 (2000)

Presentations

Research and Scholarship Interests

• Narrative Criticism of the Gospels; Feminist Hermeneutics; Bible in Public Discourse; Biblical Spirituality; Early Christian Social History: the Body in Christian Self-Definition;  The Legacy of Paul in the First – Third Centuries (Acts of Paul & Thecla)

Current Research Projects

• the contributions of each canonical Gospel to an authentic Christian spirituality;
  male "authority" in biblical traditions

Grant Funding Received

• Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society Grant

• Excellence in Teaching Award, Delta Zeta Sorority, 2014
• Volunteer of the Year, Nebraska Humane Society , 2014
• Consultant, 2014
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, 2010
• Mary Lucretia and Sarah Emily Creighton Award, Creighton University , 2006