Shelly Rambo

Assistant Professor of Theology

B.A. Houghton College
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
S.T.M. Yale Divinity School
Ph.D. Emory University

Shelly Rambo is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University School of Theology. She received her PhD in theology from Emory University's Graduate Division of Religion in 2004, as well as master's degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Yale University. A constructive feminist theologian, she engages the textual tradition of Christianity with particular attention to literary analysis and criticism. She places her work at the intersection of religious studies and comparative literature, giving attention to questions of rhetoric, aesthetics, and the religious "turn" in literary theory. Trained as both a systematic and constructive theologian, she is interested in how classical themes in the Christian tradition interact with and inform contemporary discourses around suffering, trauma, and violence. In her current project, she develops a pneumatology of Holy Saturday, from the intersection of the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, contemporary trauma theory, and readings of the Johannine passion narrative. Her teaching and research interests include: feminist theory and theology, trauma studies, the rhetoric of religious writing, pneumatology, and postmodern biblical theology.