Sherri Brown, MS, PhD

Sherri Brown, MS, PhD

Sherri Brown, MS, PhD

Associate Professor
College of Arts and Sciences

Expertise/Specializations

  • Biblical Narrative; Johannine Literature

Academic Appointments

Department

  • Theology

Position

  • Associate Professor

Teaching Activity

  • Paul and his Letters
  • The Biblical Tradition: Johannine Literature
  • The Biblical Tradition: New Testament
  • The Biblical Tradition: Synoptic Gospels
  • The Book of Revelation
  • The Christian Tradition: Then and Now
  • The Scriptural Foundations of Christian Spirituality
  • The Spirituality of John

Biography

Sherri Brown grew up primarily in Charleston, West Virginia, and attended college at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.  After early graduate work at Yale University Divinity School and Columbia University School of Social Work, and following a stint in the US Peace Corps and several years working in the international development field, she returned to graduate school at the Catholic University of America to pursue a PhD in Biblical Studies. She focused her studies in Christian Origins and the New Testatment and completed the degree in 2008.  After an initial faculty position in western New York, she joined the Theology Department at Creighton University in 2014.  Her research interests lie primarily on the Gospel and Letters of John, but she has also worked in the Pauline and Catholic Epistles  She loves adventure and traveling. A more complete listing of scholarship, teaching, and research interests can be found on my Curriculum Vitae.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Presentations

Books

Articles

  • , 129, 586
  • , April 2017, back cover
  • , 3-24
  • , 42 (2015) , 29-42
  • , 72 (2015), 289-98
  • , July 2015, 221-28
  • , 77, 69-86
  • , 110-115
  • , 397-402
  • , 145-62
  • , 249-71

Publications

Editing and Reviews

General

  • , 128, 583-92
  • , 67, 457-77

Presentations

Research and Scholarship

Research and Scholarship Interests

  • Johannine Literature; Christian Origins; Narrative Criticism; Performance Criticism; Pauline Theology

Current Research Projects

  • Interpreting the New Testament; Ethics in the Johannine Literature; Women in the Gospel of John

Grant Funding Received

  • Niagara University Research Council Summer Stipend Grant

Awards and Honors

  • 2018 First Place for Reference Books, The Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, 2018