John A. Darr

EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
A son of missionary parents, I was raised in the West African countries of Mali and Guinea. I attended three years of high school (Kenmore) in Akron, Ohio where I captained the city championship football team and lettered in basketball. After undergraduate and graduate studies at Wheaton College in Illinois, I received my Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. My wife, Kathe, is a professor in the School of Theology at Boston University, and my son, Joshua, is on the golf team at Newton North High School. Other schools where I have taught: Baldwin-Wallace College; Boston University; and Holy Cross College. Personal interests: African travel; big-game hunting; and fishing.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
General area: New Testament
Specific interests: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles; Literary Criticism and Theory; Biblical characters and characterization; Synoptic relations

TEACHING
Biblical Heritage I-II
Jesus in Story and History
Studies in Luke-Acts
The Parables of Jesus
Biblical Heritage II for the College of Advancing Studies of Boston College

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Chair, Synoptic Gospels Section of the Society of Biblical Literature (national level), 1991-1997
Co-chair, Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature (national level), 2001--
Member, Catholic Biblical Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
On Character Building: The Reader and the Rhetoric of Characterization in Luke-Acts (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992)
Herod the Fox: Audience Criticism and Lukan Characterization (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
Book Reviews:
Elizabeth S. Malbon. In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel. In Journal of Religion 82 (2002): 618-619.

Sharon H. Ringe and H. C. Paul Kim (editors). Literary Encounters With the Reign of God. In Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68 (2006): 171-173.

Dictionary article:
"Reader-Oriented Approaches." In Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation. Edited by Stanley E. Porter. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 311-312.