T. CHRISTOPHER HOKLOTUBBE Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in Theological Studies Loyola Marymount University Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow 625 Avenida Terrazo, Corona, CA, 02459 tch892@mail.harvard.edu (949) 322-7566 EDUCATION Th.D. M.Div. Post-Baccalaureate B.A. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, New Testament and Early Christianity (2015) Dissertation: The Rhetoric of PIETAS: The Pastoral Epistles and Claims to Piety in the Roman Empire Committee: Karen L. King (Chair, Divinity School), Laura S. Nasrallah (Divinity School), Emma Dench (Classics) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, New Testament and Early Christianity (2009) Thesis: (In)Sufferable Meanings in The Letter of Peter to Philip: Ancient Christian Responses to the Problems of Suffering and Theodicy UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA), Classics (2006) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA) Study of Religion, summa cum laude, Honors Program (2005) Thesis: Raising a Dead Issue?: An Investigation into the Origins of the Resurrection Belief in Jesus of Nazareth FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND DISTINCTIONS Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, 2016 2019 Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015 2017 New England/Canada SBL Regional Scholar, 2014 & 2016 Dean s Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard Divinity School, 2014 2015 Harvard Presidential Scholar, 2006 2009 Phi Beta Kappa, 2005 Awarded Departmental Honors and Highest Honors for excellence, UCLA Senior Thesis, 2005 HOKLOTUBBE CV 1
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, 2004 2005 UCLA Honors Program, 2001 2005 UCLA Alumni/Bunche Scholar, 2001 2005 TEACHING APPOINTMENTS AND COURSES POSTDOCTORAL FACULTY FELLOW IN THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, LOUISVILLE INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, 90045 o New Testament Contexts (Fall 2016) o God and the Human Experience (Fall 2016) VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY, LOUISVILLE INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Center, MA, 02459 o Debating Jesus: Early Christianities Until the Council of Nicaea (Fall 2015) o Introduction to the History of Christianity: From The Early Church Through the Reformation (Spring 2016) o The Letters and Legacy of the Apostle Paul (online course, Summer 2016) ADJUNCT PROFESSOR Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, 02138 o Prophecy and Apocalypticism in the Biblical World (January 2012) o Jews and Christians: The First Hundred Years (co-instructor with Larry Wills, Summer 2015) o Introduction to the New Testament (Guest Lecturer for Larry Wills, Acts of the Apostles, Spring 2016). INSTRUCTOR Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115 o Ancient Rome (Spring 2013) INSTRUCTOR Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138. o Elementary Coptic. Harvard Divinity School (Fall 2013) TEACHING FELLOW Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138 o World of the Roman Empire. Harvard College, Prof. Emma Dench (Fall 2012). HOKLOTUBBE CV 2
o Master of Divinity Senior Thesis Seminar. Harvard Divinity School, Prof. Stephanie Paulsell (2012 2015) o Elementary and Intermediate Greek. Harvard Divinity School, Prof. James Skedros and Prof. Judy Haley (Summers 2011 2014) o The Apostle Paul. Harvard Divinity School, Prof. Helmut Koester (Fall 2012) o History of Ancient Christianity. Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Extension School, Prof. Helmut Koester (Fall 2011, 2009) o Gospel of Matthew. Harvard Divinity School, Prof. Giovanni Bazzana (Spring 2011) o Jesus and the Gospels. Harvard Divinity School, Prof. Helmut Koester (Fall 2010) BOOKS 2017 A Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Piety in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, forthcoming. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS 2016 Great is the Mystery of Piety: Contesting Discourses on Piety in Plutarch, Philo, and 1 Timothy. Pages 155 65 in Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series 10. Edited by Nathaniel P. DesRosiers and Lily C. Vuong. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016. CRITICAL EDITIONS 2016 Hymn of the Cross: Amulet? Co-authored with Brent Landau. In The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXXXI. Edited by Dirk Obbink. London: Egypt Exploration Society with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, forthcoming. CONFERENCE PAPERS Civilized Christians Among Superstitious Jews and Barbarous Cretans: A Postcolonial Reading of Racialized Rhetoric in Titus. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England/Canadian Region of the SBL. Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island. April 10, 2016. (awarded SBL Regional Scholar) The Rhetoric of PIETAS: 1 Timothy and the Negotiation of Roman Imperial PIETAS. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the national conference HOKLOTUBBE CV 3
of the SBL. Atlanta, Georg. Paper accepted in the Disputed Pauline Epistles Unit, November 23, 2015. Great is the Mystery of Piety: Contesting Discourses on Piety in Plutarch, Philo, and 1 Timothy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the national conference of the SBL. San Diego, Calif. Paper accepted in the Disputed Pauline Epistles Unit, November 22, 2014. The Negotiation of Civic Piety: Elite Discourses on Piety in Honorary Inscriptions and 1 Timothy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England/Canadian Region of the SBL. Andover Newton Theological Seminary; Newton, Mass., April 10, 2014. (awarded SBL Regional Scholar) RESEARCH PLAN My first book, A Civilized Piety, examines how early Christians constructed a civilized identity by representing themselves as the embodiment of piety in response to both internal and external pressures of competing religious experts and elite Roman discourses that denigrated Christians as peddling a foreign and potentially seditious superstition. In particular, I examine how early Christian texts negotiate their imperial situation through their employment of piety (eusebeia in Greek, pietas in Latin) and its associated values as communicated within the image of the ideal imperial family, honorary inscriptions and practices of benefaction (esp. among voluntary associations), and Greco-Roman philosophy. Such topics also tie into my broader interests in how early Christians constructed and contested orthodox instruction and practice. My next book project currently underway provides a robust contextualization of the Pastoral Epistles within the social, political, and theological concerns of the midsecond century C.E. This manuscript incorporates my recent study on the significance and rhetorical function of pejorative, racial stereotypes in Titus, and will further locate the argument and rhetorical tactics of the Pastorals within the cultural streams of the Second Sophistic, contested notions of asceticism (esp. among philosophical circles), constructions of ecclesial hierarchies, and the (re)writings of Paul s theology and legacy. Future research interests (beyond the Pastoral Epistles) include an investigation into the Hellenistic Jewish and Early Christian use of mystery terminology and a comparative analysis of early Christian responses to suffering that would bring socalled proto-orthodox texts in conversation with historically marginalized texts. In addition, I aim to continue identifying and interpreting Greek and Coptic papyri from the Oxyrhynchus library in Oxford. AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCY HOKLOTUBBE CV 4
My coursework and teaching experience in the fields of the New Testament, Early Christian Studies, and Ancient Mediterranean History have encompassed the following topics: Apocalypticism, Second Temple and Late Antique Judaism, Historical Jesus, Pauline Studies, Pseudepigraphy, Martyrdom, constructions of Orthodoxy and Heresy, and the history of Christianity. I am also adept at introducing various modes of analyses, including rhetorical, feminist, gender, and postcolonial criticism as well as instructing ancient language courses in Greek and Coptic. My research and teaching experience also includes Greek philosophy, Roman history, and Hellenistic and Late Antique Judaism. I am also experienced in introducing the interpretation of archaeological and papyrological materials as well as exegetical approaches to Scripture. My expertise in the theories and methods in the study of religion focuses in particular upon the history of historiography and practice theory, with special competence in the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. LANGUAGES Ancient: Modern: Greek, Latin, Coptic, Hebrew, Syriac German, French MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES International Association for Coptic Studies (2012 Present) Society of Biblical Literature (2006 Present) ACADEMIC SERVICE Academic Policy Committee, Andover Newton Theological School (2015 2016) COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE Elder, Deacon, Youth Mentor, Sunday School Teacher at Fourth Presbyterian Church, PC(USA), South Boston, Massachusetts (2006 Present) www.4thboston.org Guest Preacher and Bible Study Teacher, The Historic Charles Street A.M.E. Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts (2015 Present). http://www.charlesstreetame.org/ Community Organizer and House Leader, Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, Boston, Massachusetts (2013 Present). www.gbio.org Non-Profit Organizer and Club President, Invisible Children, Los Angeles, California (2004 2006) HOKLOTUBBE CV 5
www.invisiblechildren.com REFERENCES Karen L. King Emma Dench Hollis Professor of Divinity Professor of the Classics and History Harvard Divinity School Harvard College Phone: (617) 496-3398 Phone: (617) 496-1956 kking@hds.harvard.edu dench@fas.harvard.edu Laura S. Nasrallah Lawrence M. Wills Professor of New Testament and Ethelbert Talbot Professor of Biblical Early Christianity Studies Harvard Divinity School Episcopal Divinity School Phone: (617) 495-1724 Phone: (617) 682 1547 lnasrallah@hds.harvard.edu lwills@eds.edu Sarah B. Drummond Gregory Mobley Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Christian Bible Vice President for Academics Affairs Andover Newton Theological School Associate Professor of Phone: (617) 831 2363 Ministerial Leadership gmobley@ants.edu Andover Newton Theological School Phone: (617) 831-2358 sdrummond@ants.edu Robert Pazmiño Valeria Stone Professor of Christian Education Andover Newton Theological School Phone: (617) 831 2359 rpazmino@ants.edu HOKLOTUBBE CV 6