Robyn Whitaker
Post-Doctoral Fellow and Instructor of Biblical Languages
Contact
3041 Broadway, AD 603
New York, NY 10027
212-280-1549
rwhitaker@uts.columbia.edu
Education
University of Chicago Divinity School
Ph.D. (2014)
Melbourne University of Divinity
M.Theol. (2005), B.D. (with honors, 1998)
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
B.Sc. (1995)
Biography
Robyn Whitaker is a New Testament scholar and ordained minister of the Uniting Church in Australia currently living and working at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches biblical languages. Born and raised in South Africa, Robyn lived in England, Wales, and Australia before moving to the USA in 2006. She is married to Peter, an Episcopal priest and chaplain at Princeton University.
Robyn's undergraduate degree was earned at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a B.Sc. majoring in Zoology and Psychology. She received a Bachelor of Divinity (with honors) from the University of Divinity, Melbourne, in 1998 and a M.Theol. from the same institution in 2005 with a masters thesis on the symbolism of evil in the Book of Revelation. In 2014 Robyn completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Divinity School in the area of Bible (New Testament). Her dissertation, "Seeing God: Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation," examines the epiphanic rhetoric of the visions of God in Revelation arguing it seeks to make an absent God present through ekphrasis and thereby participates in the ancient agonistic debate about whether word or art best depicted the divine.
Robyn has published on various New Testament topics in Catholic Biblical Quarterly and other edited volumes. She has presented several papers at both the annual and international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, and given invited papers at the University of Chicago's Early Christian Studies Workshop and Princeton Theological Seminary's New Testament Colloquium. Her research interests focus on biblical apocalyptic literature and its reception in both ancient and modern contexts, biblical conceptions of evil, and visual exegesis of the bible.
Courses
Elementary Biblical Greek II (Spring 2015)
Advanced Greek Readings (Spring 2015)
Elementary Biblical Hebrew II (Spring 2015)
Elementary Biblical Hebrew I (Fall 2014)
Elementary Biblical Greek I (Fall 2014)