Joanna Dewey
Joanna Dewey is the Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr. Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A specialist in the Gospel of Mark, orality studies, and feminist approaches to the New Testament, she is the author of several books, including "Mark as Story" (with David Rhoads, 1999) and numerous articles, including "From Storytelling to Written Text: The Loss of Early Christian Women's Voices," Biblical Theology Bulletin 26 (1996) about early Christian women's storytelling. She performs a version of the Gospel of Mark as a late first century woman might have told it.
She earned her A.B. at Smith College, Northampton, MA, her M.A.,at University of California, Berkeley, her M.Div. at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, CA and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. She is currently living in New Jersey, teaching adjunct courses at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, and writing, mainly about orality and the New Testament.
