Mary F. Foskett teaches in the area of New Testament Studies. She was previously a core faculty member of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and she was the inaugural director of the WFU Humanities Institute. Her research interests include feminist and intersectional hermeneutics; study of Mary, the mother of Jesus; Asian and Asian American biblical interpretation; and comparative Buddhist-Christian conversations.
Ph.D., Emory University (New Testament and Christian Origins)
M.Div., Union Theological Seminary, (NY)
B.A., New York University
Westminster Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal Books. Co-edited with Emerson B. Powery, Stacy Davis, and Brent A. Strawn. Westminster John Knox Press, 2024.
Remapping Biblical Studies: CUREMP at Thirty. Biblical Scholarship in North America 31. Co-edited with Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder. SBL Press, 2023.
Diverse Strands of a Common Thread: An Introduction to Ethnic Chinese Biblical Interpretation. Chuen King Lecture Series 11. Co-edited with Sze-kar Wan Gen. ed., Lo Lung-Kwong. Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Interpreting the Bible: Approaching the Text in Preparation for Preaching. Elements of Preaching. Fortress Press, 2009.
Between Experience and Interpretation: Engaging the Writings of the New Testament. Co-edited with O. Wesley Allen. Abingdon Press, 2008.
Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian-American Biblical Interpretation. Co-edited with Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan. Chalice Press, 2006.
A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. Indiana University Press, 2002.
- FYS 100 Reel Religion: Jesus in American Film and TV
- REL 106 The Bible in America
- REL 264 Jesus and Buddha
- REL 318 Feminist and Contemporary Interpretations of the Bible
- REL 319 What Would Jesus Do? The New Testament and Christian Ethics