University of Chicago

Biblical Hebrew:
Introduction to and Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
Genesis 12-38 - Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Second Isaiah - Tikva Frymer-Kensky - audit

Brauer Seminar: Constructive Biblical Theology (Hebrew Bible) - Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Tracy

Ethics:
Religious Ethics - William Schweiker
Politics of Ethics and Terror - Jean Bethke Elshtain

Psychology:
Reading Course: Religion and Psychotherapy - Don Browning
Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory - Susan Fisher

Religion and Literature:
Tragedy - David Tracy
The Satirist's Art - Richard Rosengarten

Christian Thought:
The Hidden God - Susan Schreiner, David Tracy
17th and 18th Century Jewish and Christian Thought - Paul Mendes-Flohr, Kathryn Tanner
The Mystery of Evil - Anne Carr
Patristic, Monastic, and Scholastic Thought - Bernard McGinn
Reformation Thought - Susan Schreiner
Calvin's Institutes - Susan Schreiner
Christianity and Social Power - Kathyrn Tanner
Christology - Kathryn Tanner
God in Relation to the World: Salvation - Kathryn Tanner

Pedagogy:
Writing pedagogy - graduate course
Multiple workshops - Center for Teaching and Learning (see my CV for details)

Psychotherapy, Human Development, Family Systems

University of Illinois (Chicago) - Jane Addams College of Social Work:
Child Development
Ego psychology
Clinical Research Methods
Child Welfare
Group Dynamics

Family Institute of Chicago at Northwestern University:
systems theory
couples therapy
family therapy

Group and Individual Training and Consultation:
Christopher Bollas (object relations, Chicago seminars)
Marian Tolpin (psychodynamic psychotherapy)
David Solomon (self psychology discussion group)
Gene Borowitz (psychodynamic psychotherapy)

Undergraduate Education - A Company of Women

My undergraduate training was grounded in the liberal arts at Agnes Scott College, then and now known for its teaching excellence and commitment to careful scholarship. I completed significant coursework in French, including a summer at Bryn Mawr's Institut d'etudes francaises d'Avignon, but I majored in English and psychology, taking for granted the annual Writers' Festival at which I had the opportunity to hear and spend time in small groups with Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Jacobsen, Theodore and Kathleen Morrison, Reynolds Price, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wilbur. Only later did I fully appreciate the significance of studying with teachers who counted among their friends and acquaintances Wilbur, Brooks, Price, and Welty, but also Robert Frost, Flannery O'Connor, James Dickey, and Robert Penn Warren, among others. The link I've provided below is to information including a slideshow about the career of Margaret Pepperdene, whom one blogger described at the time of her death as "one of the last links to the great writers of the South." These slides from her life at Agnes Scott evoke my first experience of the intensity and pleasure an academic career can encompass. I studied Chaucer with Professor Pepperdene, Donne and Bellow with Patricia Pinka, and twentieth century American novel with Linda Hubert. I was fortunate to be in the last class Margret Trotter taught before her death, in which she modeled an exceptional love of and engagement with modern poetry. In the French Department, Mary Virginia Allen and Frances Calder; in Psychology, Miriam Drucker. There were male faculty, as well, of course, but I most remember these women: teacher-scholars who approached their research and their teaching with the passion, wit, and precision that they inculcated in their students, and who shaped the intellectual life that brought me to graduate work in religion and back to the undergraduate classroom, this time as a teacher.

Slide Show in Memory of Jane Pepperdene 1919-2009

Robert Frost statue near the Alumnae House at Agnes Scott. He is said to have liked walking the campus at night, and when the college commissioned a statue of him, pen in hand making a poem, the faculty chose "Acquainted with the Night" as the exemplar text. You can read the poem here http://www.portitude.org/literature/frost/pt-acquainted_with_the_night.php