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Dr. Kwok Pui Lan
William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality

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Dr. Kwok Pui-Lan is an internationally known scholar and a pioneer in Asian feminist theology, as well as postcolonial theology. She has published extensively in feminist theology, biblical hermeneutics, and postcolonial criticism. Professor Kwok is the coeditor of two volumes Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology (Westminster) and Empire and the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians (Fortress). Her other publications include Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (Westminster), Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World (Orbis), and Introducing Asian Feminist Theology (Pilgrim).

Dr. Kwok has played leadership roles in the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning. She has spoken at the House of Bishops conference and at ATS workshops, as well as delivered lectures across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Professor Kwok is an advisor for the Religion and Modern World Series of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers and serves on the board of several journals. Her current research includes globalization and Christian theology and a long-term project on Signifying Jesus, in which she examines the relation between Christology, colonialism, and the modern world.

Education: BA, Chinese University of Hong Kong; BD, MTh, Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology; ThD, Harvard University; Dr Theol (honoris causa), Kampen Theological University (Netherlands).

Current positions: EDS faculty, 1992-present.

Previous positions: Lecturer, Theology Division, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Faculty, Women's Theological Center, Boston; Visiting theologian, Auburn Seminary, New York; Lecturer at Union Theological Seminary, New York; Visiting Professor, Yale Divinity School.

Publications include:

Postcolonial Imagination And Feminist Theology (Westminster);

Introducing Asian Feminist Theology (Introductions in Feminist Theology)(Pilgrim) ;

Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World(Orbis; German translation Interpretation als Dialog);

Chinese Women and Christianity 1860-1927 (American Academy of Religion Academy Series) (Scholars); Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse (Routledge);

Beyond Colonial Anglicanism: The Anglican Communion in the Twenty-First Century(Church Publishing).

Areas of interest and research: Christian theology, world Christianity, spirituality, religion and culture, Asian religions, women's studies, and postcolonial criticism.

 
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