Demetrius Williams

Associate Professor, Global Studies (Comparative Literature program)

Education

ThD, New Testament and Christian Origins, Harvard Divinity School, 1997 Major:
MDiv, Pastoral Care and Counseling; Scripture and Interpretation, Harvard Divinity School, 1990
MTS., Scripture and Interpretation, Harvard Divinity School, 1988
BA, Comparative Religion, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 1986

Courses Taught

Introduction to the New Testament
Literature of Early Christianity
Paul the Apostle
Dead Sea Scrolls
Literature of Second Temple Judaism
Gnosticism
The Bible in the African American Experience
The Bible and Literary Analysis
Introduction to World Religions
Introduction to Religious Studies

Teaching Interests

Religious Controversy
Conflict Resolution
Narrative Analysis
World Scriptures
Literary Theory and Religious Literature

Research Interests

Pauline Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis
Empire Studies and Biblical Studies
Cultural Studies and Biblical Studies
African American Biblical Hermeneutics
Post-Modern, Post-Colonial and Ideological Studies

Selected Publications

(2012) Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Slavery in Philemon.Noel, J. A., Johnson, M. V., & Williams, D. K.(Eds). Minneapolis: Fortress Books.

Williams, D. K.(2012) African American Approaches: Re-humanizing the Reader against Racism and Reading Through Experience.Marchal , J. A.(Ed). Studying Paul's Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods, 155-73. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Williams, D. K.(2012) "'No Longer as a Slave: 'Reading' the Interpretation History of Philemon".Johnson, M. V., Noel, J. A., & Williams, D. K.(Eds). Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Slavery in Philemon, 11-45. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Williams, D. K.(2009) ’Upon All Flesh’: Acts 2 and Intersectional Realities.Bailey, R. C., Benny Liew, . , & Segovia, . F.(Eds). They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism, Semeia Studies No. 57, 289-310. Society of Biblical Literature.

Williams, D. K.(2007) Acts of the Apostles.Blount, B. K., Felder, C. H., Martin, C. J., & Powery, E. B.(Eds). True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, 213-48. Fortress Press.

Williams, D. K.(2004) “An End to This Strife": The Politics of Gender in African American Churches.Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Williams, D. K.(2002) “Enemies of the Cross of Christ”: The Terminology of the Cross and Conflict in Philippians.Sheffield Academic Press.