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Dr Kathryn Imray Tuilaucala

Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Hebrew Bible

At PTC since January 2016.

Biography

Kathryn earned a PhD at Murdoch University, graduating in 2010. Prior to arriving at PTC, she lectured in biblical literature in Perth, Western Australia. Kathryn’s research focusses on Jewish, queer, feminist, and womanist biblical hermeneutics, and on love, death, beauty, and goddesses in the ancient Near East. Kathryn is a qualified counsellor with international membership in the Australian Counselling Association, and is also a member of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs. In 2019 she was a Kesher Fellow through the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and completed a doctorate in Literature and Creative Writing through Deakin University, specializing in phenomenological hermeneutics, relationships of power, and the other.

Education

  • PhD (Deakin University)
  • PhD (Murdoch University)
  • BA (Hons) (Murdoch University)
  • GradDipCouns (ACAP)

Publications

  • “Eye to Eye with Myself I Lay in Bliss: Phenomenology of Narcissism in Kate Grenville’s Dark Places.” PsyArt: Journal of Psychology and the Arts22, 2018: 62-74.
  • “Posthumous Interest in ??? ??? Legal Tradition.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43 (4), 2019, 509-524.
  • “Shall Not the Judge of the Earth Do What is Right: Theodicies in Watchmen.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture29 (2), 2017, 119-131.
  • “Literary Seduction: God as Feminized Other in Job.” Pacific Journal of TheologySeries II (55), 2016, 35-49.
  • “Love is (Strong as) Death: Reading the Song of Songs through Proverbs 1-9.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly74 (4), 2013, 649-665.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Storywork as method
  • Jewish biblical studies
  • Womanist, feminist, and queer biblical studies
  • Love and death in the ancient Near East
  • Existential counselling and creative therapies
  • Satire and subversive humour
  • Storytelling tradition in Judaism
  • Horror and memory of place

Presentations

  • “Posthumous Interest in Biblical Homicide Law.” Invited presentation given at the Department of Jewish Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, November 2012.
  • “Why God Can’t Win in a Fight with Dr Manhattan: The Cold War Theodicy of Watchmen and its Implications for the Book of Job.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2012.
  • “Literary Seduction: God as Feminised Other in Job.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Amsterdam, July 2012.
  • “Qohelet’s Concept of Eternity.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Vienna, July 2007.

Supervision (Successfully Completed)

  • Iosefa Lefaoseu (PhD, 2018), Lalagaga O Le Ola (Weaving Life) with God: Reading the Book of Job from a Samoan Theological Perspective: A Contribution to Biblical Hermeneutics in our ‘Sea of Islands’
  • Keebwa Tira (MTh, 2019), Breaking the Bible to Bring It In: A Kanikamaen Reading of Three Biblical Passages.
  • Samson Koi (MTh, 2018), A Noman Ngui Reading of Micah 6:6-8: On Giving in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea
  • Melepone Isara (MTh, 2018), Relocating Wise Economics: A Samoan Tam?o’?iga Reading of Two Biblical Economies
  • Geraldine Wiliame (MTh, 2017), The Book of Jonah: Towards a Theology of Interfaith Dialogue within the Methodist Church in Fiji
  • Othnielson Gamutu (MTh, 2016), A Narrative Analysis of Jacob’s Conflict and Reconciliation: A Study on the Schism at Logahaza
  • Billy Wetewea (Hons, 2017), Kanaky, The Land of Promises: A Re-reading of the Conquest Narrative in the Book of Joshua from the Perspective of the People of the Land
  • Aribeta Tebakaro (Hons, 2017), A Rainbow of Promise or Punishment? Re-reading Genesis 9:15-17 in the Context of Climate Change in Kiribati
  • Meeri Iaabeti (Hons, 2017), The Biblical Case for Gender Equality: A Kiribati Wom

Courses Taught at PTC

2019

  • B20HF01 Biblical Hebrew 1
  • B20HF02 Biblical Hebrew 2
  • B20NF05 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF06 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF07 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF08 Hebrew Reading
  • B20BF01 Introduction to the Study of Torah
  • P20SF05 Studies in the Prophets
  • P20CF08 Apocalyptic Literature

2018

  • B20HF01 Biblical Hebrew 1
  • B20HF02 Biblical Hebrew 2
  • B20NF01 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF02 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF03 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF04 Hebrew Reading
  • B20HF51 Hellenistic Greek 1
  • B20HF52 Hellenistic Greek 2
  • B20NF04 Introduction to the Study of the Prophets
  • P20SF06 Studies in the Writings

2017

  • B20HF01 Biblical Hebrew 1
  • B20HF02 Biblical Hebrew 2
  • B20NF09 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF10 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF11 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF12 Hebrew Reading
  • B20BF05 Introduction to the Study of the Writings
  • P20CF04 Biblical Hermeneutics & Interpretation 2
  • P20SF05 Studies in the Prophets
  • P20CF08 Apocalyptic Literature

2016

  • B20HF01 Biblical Hebrew 1
  • B20HF02 Biblical Hebrew 2
  • B20NF05 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF06 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF07 Hebrew Reading
  • B20NF08 Hebrew Reading
  • B20BF01 Introduction to the Study of Torah
  • P20CF04 Biblical Hermeneutics & Interpretation 2
  • P20SF04 Studies in the Torah
  • P20SF09 Empire and Biblical Interpretation