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EDUCATION
Boston College, Ph. D. in Systematic Theology 1991
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
From 1994 to 2003 Copeland was associate professor of systematic theology
at Marquette University and from 1989 to 1994, she taught at Yale University
Divinity School. She serves as adjunct associate professor of systematic
theology
at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana,
New Orleans. She has lectured extensively in the United States as well
as in Australia, Belgium, Canada, and Nigeria.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Her research interests converge around issues of theological and philosophical
anthropology and political theology as well as African and African-derived
religious and cultural experience and African American intellectual history.
TEACHING
Theological Anthropology
Suffering, Solidarity, and the Cross
Political Theology
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Copeland is the Past Convenor of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
(BCTS) and a former president (2003-2004) of the Catholic Theological
Society of America (CTSA). She is an honorary member of Alpha Sigma Nu
and the recipient of Barry University’s Yves Congar Award for Excellence
in Theology (2000) as well as honorary degrees form Holy Names College
(2002) and Emmanuel College (1989).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
The author of more than seventy articles and book chapters, her more recent
publications include "Disturbing Aesthetics of Race,” Journal
of Catholic Social Thought (2006); “Body, Race, and Being: Theological
Anthropology in the Context of Performing and Subverting Eucharist,”
in Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes
(2005); “Doing Black Catholic Theology: Rhythm, Structure, and Aesthetics,”
Chicago Studies (2003); and “The Cross of Christ and Discipleship,”
in Thinking of Christ: Proclamation, Explanation, Meaning (2003).
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
“The Black Subject and Postmodernism: ‘What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue.’” Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology 18 (2006):
93-110.
“A Thinking Margin: The
Womanist Movement as Critical Cognitive Praxis,” 226-235, in Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion
and Society. Ed. Stacy Floyd-Thomas. New York University Press,
2006.
“The Church Is Marked by Suffering,” 212-216, in
The Many Marks of the Church. Eds.
William Madges and
Michael J. Daley.
New London, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 2006.
“The Power of
Difference: Understanding, Appreciating,
Critiquing Difference.” The
Ecumenist, 43, 2 (Spring 2006): 1-10.
“Disturbing Aesthetics
of Race.”
Journal of Catholic Social Thought 3, 1 (Winter 2006): 17-27.
“Body, Race, and Being: Theological Anthropology in the Context of Performing
and Subverting Eucharist,” 97-101, 103-113, 115-116, in
Constructive Theology: A
Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes. Eds.
Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2005.
“There Is No Promised Land Beyond the Temple
Door.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review: Festschrift for Delores
S. Williams
58: 3-4 (2004): 167-169.
Review of Persons of Color and Religious
at the Same Time: The Oblate
Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 by Diane Batts Morrow. U. S. Catholic Historian 22, no
1 (Winter 2004): 154-55.
“Political
Theology as Interruptive.” CTSA Proceedings, 59 (November 2004): 71-82.
“A Theologian in the Factory: Toward a Theology of Social Transformation in
the United States,” 20-46, 126-131, in Spirit in the Cities:
Searching for Soul in the Urban Landscape. Ed. Kathryn Tanner. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2004.
“ ‘Wading Through Many Sorrows’:
Towards a Theology of Suffering in Womanist
Perspective” 157-171, 192-197, reprinted in Cut Loose
Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology
in the Slave Narrative 2nd ed. Ed.
Dwight N. Hopkins and George C. L. Cummings. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003.
“Freedom, Emancipation, and Deliverance: Towards a Theology of Freedom,” 41-73, in Full
of Hope: Critical
Social Perspectives on Theology. Ed.
Magdala Thompson. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist
Press, 2003.
“Womanist
Theology,” in New Revised Catholic Encyclopedia. Ed. Berard Marthaler. Washington, D.C.: Gale Group Publishing,
2003.
“Doing Black Catholic Theology: Rhythm, Structure, and Aesthetics,” Chicago
Studies 42: 2 (Summer 2003): 127-141.
“Black Political Theologies,” 271-287, in
The Blackwell Companion to Political
Theology. Ed. Peter Scott and William
Cavanaugh.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
“Race,” 499-511, in The
Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Ed. Gareth
Jones. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
“Catholic Theology: African American Context,” 146, in American
Catholic Identities: A Documentary History: Stamped with the Image of God:” African Americans
as God’s Image in Black. Ed.
Cyprian Davis and Jamie Phelps. Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 2003.
“The Cross of Christ and Discipleship,”
177-191, in Thinking of Christ: Proclamation,
Explanation, Meaning. Ed. Tatha Wiley (New York: Continuum, 2003).
“To Live at the Disposal of the Cross:Mystical-Political Discipleship
as Christological Locus,” in Christology:
Memory, Inquiry, and Practice: College
Theology Society Annual, Vol. 48 Eds. Anne M. Clifford
and Anthony B. Godzieba. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2002.
“The Theologian in the Twilight of American Culture,”
Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War. Ed.
Jon L. Berquist. Chalice Press: St. Louis, MO, 2002.
“Racism and the Vocation
of the Christian Theologian.” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 20, 1 (Spring 2002):
15-29.
“Enfleshing Freedom:
Theological Anthropology in Womanist Perspective,” 67-95, in Themes in Feminist Theology
for the New
Millennium (I): Proceedings of
the Theology Institute of Villanova University.
Ed. Francis A. Eigo.
Villanova: Villanova University Press, 2002.
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