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COURSES TAUGHT

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PRESENTATIONS

I bring experience as a Lecturer teaching diverse populations in four settings: a historically Black liberal arts college, private university, free-standing seminary, and divinity school lecturing and developing course curriculum for face-to-face and online courses in humanities, religion, gender/sexuality studies, sacred texts and ethics.


2019-2020 COURSES
Union Presbyterian Seminary
Christian Ethics
Womanist Literature as a Resource for Theological Ethics
Courses Taught:
Seminary of the Southwest
  • Constructive Theology
  • Liberation Theologies
  • American Baptist College
    • Gender Roles in the Church & Society
    • Christian Ethics & the Bible
    • Black, Womanist, & Liberation Theologies
    • Preaching to Youth
    • Issues in Ethics and Medicine w/ Professor Malika Clinkscales
    • The Black Church and Modern Culture
    • Social Ethics for Leaders

    Illinois Institute of Technology
    • Issues in Science & Religion
    • Spiritual Autobiography
    • Radical Theology
    Brite Divinity School
    • African American Experience and Perspectives in Social Ethics
    • Womanist Theology and Ethics
    Chicago Theological Seminary
    • Womanist Literature and Theological Imagination
    • Living Our Commitments and Effecting Social Change w/ Professor Jason Frey
    • Constructive Theology (TA) w/ Professor Scott Haldeman and Professor Christophe Ringer
    • Systematic Theology (TA) w/ Professor JoAnne Terrell and Professor Carolyn Roncolato
    • Christian Ethics (TA) w/Professor Christophe Ringer
    • The New Social Gospel (TA) w/Professor Susan Thistlethwaite
    • Pastoral Theology (TA) w/Professor Lee H. Butler, Jr.

    *Teaching Assistant (TA)

    Invite Rev Melanie to teach academic courses, ministry seminars, and community workshops (face-to-face or online) discussing topics engaging Black faith and life, ethics and the body, radical theologies and social movements, issues in gender and sexuality studies, sacred texts and aesthetics (i.e. dress, literature, and the arts).