Shanell T. Smith, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, was a featured speaker in a June 18 womanist dialogue via Zoom hosted by Dr. Mitzi J. Smith, the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.

The topic was “The Book of Revelation/Apocalypse: A Critical Reflection in Light of CoVid19 and BLM.”

In the dialogue, Dr. Shanell T. Smith talks about her book The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence and about her personal experiences living in a pandemic within a pandemic.

Other panelists were Drs. Jacqueline Hidalgo, Sheila Winborne, Tina Pippin, Raj Nadella, and Thomas Slater.

The dialogue can be viewed at this link.