Student Profile

Susannah Laramee Kidd

Course of Study:

Comparative Literature and Religion

Year of Entry:

2006

Areas of Focus:

Women and Religion
Religious Reading
Ethnography of Reading
U.S. Protestant Christianity
Feminist Theory
Philosophical Hermeneutics

Education:

Degree Institution City State Graduation Year
M.T.S. Boston University School of Theology Boston MA 2006
B.A. Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University New York NY 2001

Teaching Experience:

Course Title School Role Professor
Asian Religious Traditions Emory University Teaching Assistant Tara Doyle
Interpreting Religion Emory University Teaching Associate Bobbi Patterson
Global Feminisms and Christian Theology Candler School of Theology Teaching Associate Mary Elizabeth Moore
Public Worship Candler School of Theology Teaching Assistant Don Saliers
Thinking Through Theological Education Candler School of Theology Instructor Ted Brelsford

Publications:

Review. The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo by Jacqueline A. Bussie. Practical Matters: A Transdisciplinary Multimedia Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology, Issue 1, Spring 2009

Conference Presentations:

Format Presentation Title Conference Name Conference Date
Paper Presentation Revelation as Self-Knowledge from Outside the Self: Linda Martin Alcoff and Kelly Oliver's Theories of the Social Self as Models of Women's Religious Subjectivity AAR Annual Meeting 11/2009
Paper Presentation Expecting Resonance in Practical Theology AAR Annual Meeting 11/2007

Work Experience:

Position / Role Institution City State Dates
Research Assistant "Religions and Economic Justice for Women: Feminist, Womanist, Sacred and Secular Perspectives" Lecture Series at the Atlanta Women's Foundation, co-facilitated by Profs. Laurie Patton and Layli Phillips Atlanta GA 2007
Administrator Place of Promise Boston MA 2004-2005
Administrative Associate Woodland Presbyterian Church Philadelphia PA 2001-2004

School Community Involvement:

Position / Role Institution City State Dates
Women's Studies Certificate Student Representative Emory Women's Studies Graduate Committee Atlanta GA 2008-2009
Participant Transforming Communities Project (Dialogue on Race) Emory University Atlanta GA 2007
Board Member Place of Promise Boston MA 2005-2006

Practices Concentration:

Core Seminar Paper: "Exploring" Authority: Performed Interpretation in a Campus Bible Study