For Immediate Release

Vanderbilt University Professor to Lecture at Princeton Seminary

Princeton, NJ, February 3, 2006– Fernando F. Segovia, the Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the Divinity School and the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University, will deliver Princeton Theological Seminary’s annual Alexander Thompson Lecture on Thursday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center. The title of his lecture is “Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and the Gospel of John.” It will be followed by a reception in the Private Dining Room of the Mackay Campus Center.

Segovia studied with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza at the University of Notre Dame, and taught in the Department of Theology at Marquette University before joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 1984. His primary areas of research are method and theory in interpretation, ideological criticism, non-Western and minority traditions of interpretation, Johannine studies, non-Western and minority theologies, and Latino/a religion and theology. His most recent books are Postcolonial Biblical Criticism:  Interdisciplinary Intersections (T&T Clark, 2005), coedited with Stephen Moore, and The Unfinished Dream:  Theological Reflections on America from the Margins (Orbis, 2001), coedited with Eleazar Fernandez. He is currently working on several new books, besides his activities as an advocate for those whose voices are silenced and his efforts to bring reconciliation and rebuilding to the country of his birth, Cuba.

The Reverend Alexander Thompson Memorial Lecture was established to honor Alexander Thompson, a 1909 graduate of the Seminary, with the broad definition of dealing with “some aspect of the Bible.” The lecturer is chosen by the Seminary faculty. Past lecturers have included Phyllis Trible, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Hans Wilhelm Frei, Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Hans Dieter Betz, Carol Ann Newsom, Victor Furnish, and other notable biblical scholars.

The lecture and reception are open to the public and free of charge. For more information or for directions, call the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu.