Witherspoon Speaker Series
Event Date:
February 18, 2020 – 6:00 PM to February 19, 2020 – 7:59 PM
Location:
UNC Charlotte Center City
Dr. Mark D. Jordan is Niebuhr Professor at Harvard’s Divinity School. A scholar of Christian thought, European philosophy, and gender studies, he currently teaches courses on the relations of religion to literature and the prospects for sexual ethics. His recent books including Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault (Stanford 2015) and Tongues of Fire Shared Out: Scenes of Christian Teaching (forthcoming at Eerdmans). Jordan is the recipient of a number of grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright-Hays grant (Spain) and a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
To read more about Dr. Jordan, visit his webpage.