Zachary Thomas Settle 1 Zachary Thomas Settle Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University 411 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240 [email protected] 205-527-3650 Education PhD. Theological Studies. Vanderbilt University: Graduate Department of Religion. Anticipated Completion Date: Spring, 2020 Minor Concentration: Philosophy Dissertation (in Progress): “On the Use of the Self: The Economic Implications of Theological Anthropology.” Committee: Joerg Rieger (adviser), Ellen Armour, Paul DeHart, Bruce Morrill, Jeremy Posadas M.A. Theological Studies. Vanderbilt University: Graduate Department of Religion. Completed Spring 2018 University Fellowship Adviser: Joerg Rieger M.A. Religious Studies, Concentration in Philosophy of Religion. The University of Denver. Completed June 2014: Summa Cum Laude AHSS Dean’s Scholarship Thesis: “Toward a Hospitable Conception of Race & the Political” Advisers: Carl Raschke, Luis Leon B.A. Double Major: Philosophy & Theology. Union University. Completed May 2012: Magna cum Laude Professional Appointments Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice for Economics and Ecology Graduate Research Fellow Vanderbilt Divinity School Spring 2019 – Summer 2020 Research Areas Theology & Economics (method, formal analysis, labor, distribution, criticism); Systematic Theology (creation, divine/human agencies, God-world relation, theological anthropology, eschatology); Augustinian Studies; Historical Theology (Origen, Cappadocians, Augustine, Aquinas, Barth, Moltmann); Theology and film; Liberation theology; Contemporary theology; Political theology Revised October, 2018 Zachary Thomas Settle 2 Publications Edited Books: Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: A Spiritual Phenomenology of Film. Eds. Taylor Worley and Zachary Thomas Settle Seattle, WA: Cascade, 2015. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles: “Miracles and Militancy,” with Tim Isaacson, in The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 14.1, (Winter, 2014). Book Chapters: “The Plasticity of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Theological Treatment of Capitalism’s Formation of Selfhood,” in Media-ting Religion, edited by Jione Havea. Minneapolis, MN: Littlefield/Fortress Press. Forthcoming in 2019. “James Baldwin and The Political Possibilities of Film: Perpetuating and Disrupting the White Gaze” in Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: A Spiritual Phenomenology of Film, edited by Taylor Worley and Zachary Thomas Settle. Seattle, WA: Cascade, 2016. “Thinking How Film Feels,” co-authored with Taylor Worley in Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: A Spiritual Phenomenology of Film, edited by Taylor Worley and Zachary Thomas Settle. Seattle, WA: Cascade, 2016. “Indeterminable Forgiveness: Economic Madness and The Possibility of an Impossible Task” in Forgiveness and Philosophy, edited by Court Lewis. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2016. Book Reviews: Reggie L. Williams, Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014), The Other Journal. Vol. 25: Trauma, Spring 2015. Robert B. Pippin, Nietzsche, Psychology and First Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 15 Issue 1, January 2014. François Dosse, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (New York: Columbia U. Press, 2010), Essays in Philosophy Vol. 14 Issue 2, July 2013. Editorial Introductions: “Time, History, and Eschatology,” The Other Journal:. Vol. 31: Time, History, Eschatology (February, 2019). “Authority,” The Other Journal:. Vol. 30: Authority (September, 2018). “Environment,” The Other Journal:. Vol. 28: Environment (January, 2017). Revised October, 2018 Zachary Thomas Settle 3 “Identity,” The Other Journal:. Vol. 27: Identity (November, 2016). “Sport,” The Other Journal:. Vol. 26: Sport (March, 2015). “Introduction to Issue” The Other Journal:. Vol. 25.5: Sundance/Into the Noise. (May 6, 2015). “Trauma,” (with Tom Ryan, Dan Rhodes and Andrew David) The Other Journal:. Vol. 25: Trauma (March, 2015). “Geography,” (with Tom Ryan, Dan Rhodes and Andrew David) The Other Journal:. Vol. 24: Geography (August, 2014). Essays and Public Scholarship: “The Theological Legacy of Money and Debt: An Interview with Devin Singh.” Devin Singh and Zachary Settle. The Other Journal, Vol. 30: Authority. May, 2018: “Kinpolitics and the Figure of the Migrant: an Interview with Thomas Nail.” Thomas Nail and Zachary Settle. The Other Journal, Vol. 26: Sport. November, 2016: http://theotherjournal.com/2016/11/28/kinopolitics-figure-migrant-interview-thomas-nail/. “The Cinematic Experience as Experiment.” The Other Journal Vol. 24.5 “Sundance Issue” (Spring, 2015): http://theotherjournal.com/2015/05/13/the-cinematic-experience-as-experiment-reflection-on-the-stanford- prison-experiment/ “The Politics of Consumption: Re-imagining a Politic of Participation.” Curator, May 6, 2015: http://www.curatormagazine.com/zacsettle/the-politics-of-consumption/ “Questioning Our Vision: Learning to See with David Hammons.” Curator, April 2015: http://www.curatormagazine.com/zacsettle/questioning-our-vision/ “On the Possibility of Death in Advent.” The Other Journal:. Vol. 25: Trauma. (December, 2014): http://theotherjournal.com/2014/12/21/on-the-possibility-of-death-in-advent/ “Towards a Material Belief.” The Other Journal. Vol. 23: Bodies. (Winter 2014): http://theotherjournal.com/2013/11/04/toward-a-material-belief/#disqus_thread “The New Iraq War and Agamben’s State of Exception” at Critical Theology. (September, 2014): http://criticaltheology.com/blog/?p=13. “Overcoming Metaphysics: Overcoming Racial Oppression.” The Other Journal. Vol. 22: Marxism. (Spring 2013): http://theotherjournal.com/2013/03/28/overcoming-metaphysics-overcoming-racial-oppression/ This essay was mentioned in the New York Times: ‘Stone’ Philosophy Column, edited by Simon Critchley: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/the-enigma-of-the-celebrity-philosopher/ Revised October, 2018 Zachary Thomas Settle 4 Grants, Awards, and Fellowships Grants, Fellowships & Scholarships: 2018: Barth Graduate Student Colloquium: Princeton Theological 2017-2020: Vanderbilt Graduate Student Travel Grant 2017-2019: Doctoral Fellowship, Louisville Institute (Lilly Foundation) 2016: Southeastern World History Association Travel Grant 2015-2016: Doris K. & William E. Farley Scholarship for Constructive Theology at Vanderbilt 2015-2020: Vanderbilt University Fellowship: Comprehensive Support for Doctoral Study 2012-2014: University of Denver Arts and Humanities Dean’s Scholarship Honors & Awards 2014: Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Denver 2014: Academic Merit, University of Denver: Highest GPA in Religious Studies 2014: Inducted into Theta Alpha Kappa chapter, University of Denver 2012: Union University School of Theology’s Philosophy and Theology Award 2012: Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Union University 2012: Union University Academic Excellence Medal (Philosophy) 2012: Union University Academic Excellence Medal (Theology) Presentations Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations: “Organizing the End: An Eschatological Analysis of Worker Self-Directed Enterprises.” Presented at the Class, Religion, and Theology unit at the American Academy of Religion: November 12, 2018. “Being New in the Old: Barth on Dialectical Being in Romans 5,” Presented at Princeton’s Center for Barth Studies’ 2018 Barth Graduate Student Colloquium: August 9, 2018. “The Plasticity of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Theological Treatment of Capitalism’s Formation of Selfhood,” Presented at Discernment and Radical Engagement (DARE) (Council for World Mission) Global Forum in Mexico City, May 2018. Panelist for discussion on Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film, edited by Zachary Thomas Settle and Taylor Worley. Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Breakout Session at the American Academy of Religion: November 12, 2017. “Spinning Survival: What Mary Daly Taught Me About Theological Language.” Joint Session between Feminist Theory & Religious Reflection Unit and Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit at the American Academy of Religion: November 12, 2017. “The Spectacle, Mediated Sociality, and the Primacy of the Economic” at the Virginia Graduate Colloquium in Theology, Ethics and Culture: May 7, 2016. Revised October, 2018 Zachary Thomas Settle 5 “Historical Materialism, Confession, and the Articulation of Atrocity” at the Southeastern World History Association 2016 annual conference: April 2, 2016. “James Baldwin and the Politics of Film: Rupturing Screened Whiteness” at the 2016 Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion’s (regional AAR) annual conference. Atlanta, GA: March 5th, 2016. “American Racism, Homo Sacer, and the Coming of the Third” at Harvard Divinity’s 2015 “Ways of Knowing” Theology Conference. October 23rd, 2015. “Questioning Our Vision: Learning to See with David Hammons” at the “Between Two Worlds: Contemporary Art and the Church, 2015 Biennial CIVA conference,” June 12th, 2015. “The Politics of Consumption: Reimagining a Politic of Participation” at the Festival of Faith & Music, March 30 2015, hosted by Calvin College. “The Task of the Philosopher: A Generative Critic” at the University of Denver’s “Beyond the Silos” Graduate Fair, January 7th 2014. “Overcoming Metaphysics: Overcoming Racial Oppression.” Presented at Union University’s 2012 Scholarship Symposium. “The Problem of the Self in the Social and Christological Thought of Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard.” Presented at Union University’s 2011 Scholarship Symposium. Invited Presentations/Panels: