Dr. Amy McLaughlin-Sheasby is an assistant professor in the Department of Bible, Missions, and Ministry at Abilene Christian University, where she teaches a range of courses including Preaching, Wisdom Literature, and a theology class on death called Mortality & Meaning. Her research interests include homiletics, feminist biblical hermeneutics, theologies of suffering, and affect theory. Her current projects include a forthcoming book titled The Suffering of Job and an Enfleshed Homiletic: Bearing the Body’s Witness, and a grant-funded project that analyzes preaching through the lenses of affect theory. Dr. McLaughlin-Sheasby’s work is devoted to observing and affirming the epistemic particularity and power of bodies for justice and communal flourishing.
