FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2014 Contact:Vanessa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2014
Contact:Vanessa Daley
817-257-7579 | [email protected]
Dr. Wil Gafney joins Brite Divinity School faculty
FORT WORTH – Brite Divinity School is pleased to announce that Dr. Wil Gafney will join the
Brite faculty as Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Fall of 2014.
“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Gafney to Brite,” said Joretta Marshall, Executive Vice
President and Dean of Brite Divinity School. “During her campus visit, our students and faculty
immediately recognized in her the gifts of teaching, scholarship, justice-making and practice for
which Brite is known.”
Dr. Gafney holds a Master of Divinity from Howard University School of Divinity in
Washington, D.C. and a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Duke University. She embodies a passion
for teaching and a commitment to students in all of our masters and doctoral programs. Dr.
Gafney is the author of Daughters of Miriam (Fortress Press, 2008), one of the co-editors for The
Peoples’ Bible (Fortress Press, 2008) and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible (Fortress Press,
2010), and her work appears in a number of peer-reviewed journal articles or as chapters in
books.
Dr. Gafney is currently working on Womanist Midrash and a Commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk
and Zephaniah. Her research and scholarship represent the leading edge of biblical scholarship.
As a public intellectual her work is accessible to multiple audiences as she writes across diverse
social media platforms. Dr. Gafney is an ordained Episcopal priest, has experience as a military
chaplain, and is invested in inter-religious conversation. Gafney is coming to Brite from the
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia where she has held a faculty position since 2003.
About Brite Divinity School
Founded in 1914, Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University has become the premier
theological seminary of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as well as a noted ecumenical
divinity school preparing leaders also for Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Methodist and
other denominations. For more information, please visit www.brite.edu.

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