M Adryael Tong Department of Theology Fordham University 441 East Fordham Road Bronx, New York 10458 646.612.9017 [email protected]
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Fordham University, Ph.D. Candidate in Theology (Christianity in Antiquity), ABD Dissertation: "Given as a Sign": Circumcision and Bodily Discourse in Late Antique Judaism and Christianity Comprehensive Examinations: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Ante-Nicene Christianity, Second Temple Judaism and Rabbinic Literature
Yale Divinity School, M.Div. 2012 summa cum laude, S.T.M. 2013 Masters Thesis: “Paradise Unknown: Bodily Resurrection in American Evangelicalism and Origen’s De Principiis”
University of Pennsylvania, B.A. Classics 2007 cum laude Honors Thesis: “La Cité des Femmes: Relations Between Women in Classical Athens”
PUBLICATIONS
“Gender and Sexuality in Postcolonial Perspective,” in The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality (Oxford: Oxford University Press). (forthcoming)
“Categorization and Its Discontents” in The Architecture of the Academy: Processes, Institutions, and Power in the Academic Study of Religion (Sheffield: Equinox). (forthcoming)
“Reading Gender in Justin Martyr: New Insights from Old Apologies,” Studia Patristica: Papers Presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, 2015, vol. 93 (Leuven: Peeters, 2017): 165-178.
Book Note on Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem by Julia Watts Belser, Ancient Jew Review (forthcoming).
Book Note on Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities by Mira Beth Wasserman, Ancient Jew Review (December 17, 2017).
Review of Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians (Synkrisis) by David Wheeler-Reed, Reading Religion (January 15, 2018).
Review of Making Memory: Jewish and Christian Explorations in Monument, Narrative, and Liturgy by Alana M. Vincent, Theology 119, no. 4 (2016): 305-306. CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Rabbinic Reproduction: An Anthro-Textual Perspective” with Shira Schwartz (Michigan) Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies: Boston, December 2018 Compelling Reading: Access, Discipline, and Marginality in Reading Rabbinic Texts Session
Women's Bodies Don't Make a Difference: Circumcision as Jewish-Christian Borderline Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: Denver, November 2018 Construction of Christian Identities Section
Heirs to the Problem: Circumcision, Pauline Genetics, and the Borderline between Judaism and Christianity Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society: Chicago, May 2018 Thinking With and Beyond “Boundaries” in Late Ancient Christianity (Panel Co-Organizer)
Can Jewish Women be Circumcised?: Circumcision and the Problem of Sexual Difference Sixth Annual Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar: Princeton, April 2018
Gender Trouble at the Bris: Circumcision and Sexual Difference in Late Antique Judaism and Christianity Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: Boston, November 2017 Early Jewish Christian Relations Section
Response to Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Partitioning ‘Religion’ and its Prehistories: Reflections on Categories, Narratives, and the Practice of Religious Studies.” Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion: Boston, November 2017
“Of a Piece”: The Circumcision of the Body in Origen’s Homilies on Genesis and Genesis Rabbah Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society: Chicago, May 2017 Imagining the Early Christian Body: Places and Parts (Panel Organizer)
Is Christianity an Ethnicity?: A Taxonomy of “Ethnos” in Ante-Nicene Christianity, Seventh Annual Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association Conference: New York, March 2017
“This is the Foreskin of the Body”: Circumcision and the Composition of the Body in Origen’s Homilies on Genesis III and Genesis Rabbah Fifth Annual Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar: New York, March 2017
Theorizing Circumcision: The Creation of Jewish and Christian Difference in Late Antiquity Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies: San Diego, December 2016 Theorizing Jewish Difference Section
Body Language: The Semiotics of Circumcision in Late Antique Judaism and Christianity Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: San Antonio, November 2016 Religious World of Late Antiquity Section
Oppression and Liberation in Flux: Jewish and Christian Feminist Readings of Menstrual Purity Discourse in the Syriac ‘Didascalia’ Sixth Annual Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association Conference: New York, April 2016
Circumcision as a Sign: Body, Identity and Language Fourth Annual Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar: Philadelphia, March 2016
A Maccabean Red Wedding: The Massacre of the Family of Jambri in 1 Maccabees 9:37-42 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: Atlanta, November 2015 Warfare in Ancient Israel Section
Reading Gender in Justin Martyr: New Insights from Old Apologies International Conference on Patristic Studies: Oxford, August 2015
Resisting Biblical Imperialism: Asian/Asian-American Hermeneutics and the Japanese Anime ‘Ao no Exorcist’ Fifth Annual Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association Conference: New York, May 2015
Manning the Barricades: Gendered Ecclesiology and the Woman Priest Problem in Tertullian Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society: Chicago, May 2014
Limiting Bodily Resurrection: Issues of Materiality in the Theology of the Resurrection in American Evangelicalism and Origen’s ‘De Principiis’ Fourth Annual Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association Conference: New York, 2014
Wisdom’s Main Stage: Queer Spaces and Personified Wisdom in Proverbs Annual Meeting of the American Philological Society: Seattle, January 2013 Lambda Classical Caucus Section: Transgressive Spaces
“Dude Looks Like a Lady”: Queering Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: Chicago, November 2012 LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics Section
Sex Slave Scandal: The Gender of Jesus on the Cross and the Evangelists’ Response Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association Conference: New York, April 2011
GRANTS & ACADEMIC AWARDS
National Awards and Competitions Association of Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2018-2019) Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2018-2019) –– Finalist
Fordham University Elizabeth A. Johnson Endowed Scholarship (2018-2019)
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Development Grants Summer Research Fellowship (2016) Conference Travel: SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA (Fall 2015); SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio TX (Fall 2016); AJS Annual Meeting, San Diego CA (Fall 2016); NAPS Annual Meeting, Chicago IL (Spring 2017); SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (2017)
Graduate Students Association Professional Development Grants Conference Travel: SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA (Fall 2015); SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio TX (Fall 2016)
Department of Theology Research Support Grants Special Research Funding with Fordham Judaic Studies to attend Nishma, the Summer Beit Midrash program at the Jewish Theological Seminary (2017 and 2018) Conference Travel: International Conference on Patristic Studies: Oxford, UK (2015); SBL Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX (Fall 2016); SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (2017)
Yale Divinity School Ping Teh Sie Scholarship (2011-2012)
University of Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts with distinction in Classical Studies (2007) Dean’s List (2005-2006) Benjamin Franklin Scholar (2003-2007)
ADVANCED STUDY & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Advanced Summer School for Graduate Students in Jewish Studies: Shaking Foundations Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia (Summer 2016)
Nishma: A Summer of Torah Study at the JTS Beit Midrash Jewish Theological Seminary, New York (Summer 2017, 2018)
TEACHING
Instructor of Record Early Christian Writings: Rhetorical Tropes Across Time (Fordham: Spring 2018) Introduction to the New Testament: The NT as Midrash (Fordham: Fall 2017) Classic Jewish Texts: Judaism and the Body (Fordham: Fall 2016) Faith and Critical Reasoning: What is the Self? (Fordham: Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
Teaching Assistant Sacred Texts of the Mid-East (Fordham: Spring 2014) –– Assistant to Dr. Kattan Gribetz
Pedagogical Training Wabash Teaching Diversity Seminar on Race (NYC, 2018) Wabash Center Teaching Seminar for Doctoral Students (NYC, 2018) Fordham Preparing Future Faculty Pilot Program (2016) Fordham Theology Doctoral Pedagogy Seminar (2014)
SERVICE & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Graduate Group Supporting Students of Color (GGSSoC), Fordham University — 2016-present Founder, Co-chair (2016-2017) Theology Graduate Students Association (TGSA), Fordham University — 2013-present Colloquium Director (2016-2017) — Organized the Seventh Annual Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association Conference on Religion and Racial & Ethnic Justice (New York, March 2017)
Feminist Theory Reading Group, Fordham University — 2014-present
LGBTQ Graduate Students Association, Fordham University — 2013-present Founder, Co-chair (2013-2014)
Women’s Pre-Doctorate Group, Yale Divinity School — 2010-2013 Co-chair (2012-2013)
EMPLOYMENT
Graduate Teaching Fellow — Fall 2015-Spring 2018 Theology Department Webmaster, Fordham University — Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Graduate Program Assistant to American Studies, Fordham University — Spring 2014 Graduate Assistant to Professor Jeaninne Hill-Fletcher, Fordham University — Spring 2014 Graduate Assistant to Professor Larry Welborn, Fordham University — Fall 2013 Graduate Assistant to Professor Mary Callaway, Fordham University — Fall 2013 Research Assistant to Professor Diana Swancutt, Yale Divinity School — Summer 2012
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
Greek Latin Hebrew Aramaic French German
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association of Religion Society of Biblical Literature Association for Jewish Studies North American Patristics Society