Peter Dula

POSITION: Professor of Religion & Culture

DEPARTMENTS:
School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts
Theology & Religion

LOCATION: Main Campus, Harrisonburg | RLN 319

PHONE: (540) 432-4466

Peter Dula is Professor of Religion and Culture. He received a Ph.D from Duke University in theology and ethics in 2004. He is the author of Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology (Oxford, 2011). Before coming to EMU in 2006 he was the Mennonite Central Committee Iraq Program Coordinator. He has taught at Lancaster Mennonite High School and at the Meserete Kristos College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he was a Fulbright scholar in 2001-2. He has received several grants and fellowships including, most recently, the Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers.

Education

PHD, Duke University (Religion-Theology and Ethics)
MA, Associated Mennonite Bibilical Seminary (Theological Studies - Pacifism)
BS, Eastern Mennonite University (History)

Publications
"The Accidental New Atheist," Conrad Grebel Review 38, no. 3 (Fall 2020).
"Anabaptist Environmental Ethics: A Review Essay," Mennonite Quarterly Review 94/1 (January 2020).
"The Melodrama of the Unknown Man," in Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding, Garry L. Hagberg, ed. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
“Six Scenes of Instruction in Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know,” Philosophy and Literature 40/2 (2016).
“The Politics of Friendship in the Gospel of John,” in Reading Scripture as a Political Act, eds. Matthew A. Tapie and Daniel Wade McClain (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015).
“Theology is a Kind of Reading,” Conrad Grebel Review 31/2 (Spring 2013).
Cavell, Companionship and Christian Theology (New York: Oxford University Press), 2011.
“Wittgenstein Among the Theologians,” in Unsettling Arguments, ed., Kelly Johnson, Charles Pinches and Charles Collier (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010).
“For and Against Hauerwas Against the Mennonites,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 84/3 (July 2010).
Easter in Baghdad, Commonweal, March 28, 2008
The War in Iraq: How Catholic Conservatives Got It Wrong, Commonweal, December 3, 2004.
Scholarly Presentations and Abstracts
“To Put Away Childish Things: I Corinthians 13 in Stanley Cavell’s Memoir.” Paper presented at “Confessional Improvisation,” Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton Theological Seminary, June 9-13 2014.

“The Poetics of Identity in Julia Spicher Kasdorf’s Early Poetry,” Keynote Address at “Wading Deeper: Anabaptist-Mennonite Identities Engage Postmodernity,” Canadian Mennonite University, May 31, 2014.

“Friends and Enemies in the Gospel of John,” Paper delivered at the American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic regional meeting, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY, March 8, 2014.

“The Limits of Theology: A Response to Jonathan Tran,” Paper delivered at “The Difference Christ Makes: Celebrating the Life, Work and Friendship of Stanley Hauerwas,” Duke Divinity School, Durham NC, Nov. 1, 2013.
Church, Community and Professional Service
“Love in the Gospel of John,” Weekend workshop at Kairos Retreat Center, Feb 7, 2015.
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Professional Conferences Attended
“Designing Learning Experiences that Last,” Loyola University, Chicago, May 25-27, 2016.

“Leading from the Middle,” CIC Workshop for Department and Division Chairs, May 10-12, 2016, Portland, ME.

American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2016.

“The Difference Christ Makes: Celebrating the Life, Work and Friendship of Stanley Hauerwas,” Duke Divinity School, Durham NC, Nov. 1, 2013.
EMU Service
Mission and Identity Task Force
Fall Conference Planning Committee
Academic Review Committee

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