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2024

“The Discourse of Revelation: Trauma, Love, and Absence in Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics,” Ricoeur and Revelation, edited by Crina Gschwandtner. New York: Lexington Books.

2023  

“Possibilities of Hope and Healing After Trauma: A Ricoeurean Consideration.” In Re-Figuring the Sacred: Commentaries and Conversations with Paul Ricoeur, edited by Joseph Edelheit and James Moore. New York: Lexington Books.

“Trauma, Shame, Empathy: Establishing, Destroying, and Re-establishing Human Dignity.” In Probing Human Dignity: Exploring Thresholds from an Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Stephanie Arel, Levi Cooper, and Vanessa Hellmann. Berlin: Springer Nature.  

2021

“The Rhetoric of Witnessing: Political Address, Historical Justice and Commemoration of Traumatic Events,” coauthored with Bradford Vivian. 

“The Crisis of Witnessing: “Truth” Finding and the Role of Justice in Memory.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture, edited by Roger Woods and Sara Jones. London: Palgrave Macmillan.  

    

“The ‘Crisis of Witnessing’ and Trauma on the Stand: Attending to Survivors as an Obligation of Justice.” Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by George Taylor, Eileen Brennan, and Marc De Leeuw. New York: Lexington Books.  

“Challenging the Male Gaze: The Unabashed Rahab Emerges through Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics.” In Reading Scripture with Paul Ricoeur, edited by Joseph Edelheit and Jim Moore. New York: Lexington Books.

2020                   

“Women Centered Rituals and Levels of Domestic Violence: A Cross Cultural Examination of Ritual as a Signaling and Solidarity-Building.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. 

“Theorizing the Exchange between the Self and the World: Paul Ricoeur, Affect Theory, and the Body.” In Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body, edited by Roger Savage. New York: Lexington Books.

2018
“Conceptions of Identity: The Challenge of Sexual Fluidity to Christian Notions of Marriage.” Theology and Sexuality.

2014
“Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection.” Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory, and Culture 4: 99-115.

2013
“’First’ and ‘Third World’ Feminisms: Does Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy Offer a Way to Bridge the Gap?” Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 4/1: 57-70.

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