During my tenure at Duke, I've been afforded a wide range of teaching opportunities, each of which has enabled me to reflect on my pedagogical philosophy and to sharpen my teaching methods. As a doctoral student, I have assisted courses in Old Testament (under Ellen Davis) and New Testament (under Richard Hays), with full responsibility for leading discussion groups of about fifteen students on a weekly basis and doing a large amount of grading. For several years now, I have been granted full control over NT 2A/2B, Duke Divinity School's course of Readings in Hellenistic Greek. Since I have covered a new text in each semester, the course has allowed me to walk students through almost all of the New Testament and a good deal of Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Special teaching materials I developed have made the latter texts especially rewarding for me and for those students most eager for a challenge. Prof. Susan Eastman, in her Greek Exegesis of Romans, graciously offered me the opportunity to lead the Greek-reading portion of the seminar. This meant almost full control of the classroom for about an hour of each two-and-a-half hour seminar. Similarly, Prof. Douglas Campbell offered me a great deal of input and control over a course on 2 Corinthians (my dissertation field). Both of last these opportunities, quite rare for Duke doctoral students, have helped shape my identity as an instructor and seminar leader. Finally, a visiting stint at Renk Theological College in Renk Town, Sudan, paid great dividends on a number of levels, not the least of which relates to the challenge of teaching in a highly-cross cultural context.

Over the coming months, I hope to post syllabi and teaching materials to give visitors to this site a better idea of what kind of teacher I am.

Syllabus
Handout for introduction to partition theory lecture
Day conference presentation schedule
Student reviews
My critical reflections

Syllabus
Introductory comments on Wisdom of Solomon: Date, authorship, style, theology
Blank introductory questionnaire
Reader's Lexicon for Wisdom of Solomon
Quick reference 1: Uses of the genetive
Quick reference 2: Aspect
Reflections on translating poetry
Select reference bibliography and links
Completed anonymous reviews