BA (Linguistics and Music), GradDipAppLing, GradDipEd, MA (Biblical Studies), MLE (Linguistics and Exegesis), PhD (Hebrew Bible)

Dr Carolyn Alsen is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education and the Teaching and Learning Manager at the University of Divinity. She has significant experience in higher education teaching, curriculum design and study skills in Australian and North American Universities.

For the first half of 2023, Carolyn will take on the position of SAC’s Academic Dean.

An accredited supervisor in the disciplines of Biblical Studies, Education Studies, Religious Education, and Biblical Languages, Carolyn is a linguist, educator and biblical scholar, and her research interests include the analysis of biblical narrative, translation studies and biblical Semitics.

(2021). “Seeing Biblical Worlds Through Surveillance,” In A Curious Machine: Wesleyan Reflections on the Posthuman Future. Edited by Glen O’Brien and Arseny Ermakov. (Wipf and Stock, forthcoming).

(2019). “Veiled Resistance: The Cognitive Dissonance of Vision in Genesis 38.” Pages 59-82 in Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Jeremiah Cataldo (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark).

(2017). “Drones Over Sodom: Resisting the Fantasy of Security.” Pages 24-44 in Ecological Aspects of War: Engagements with Biblical Texts. Edited by Keith Dyer and Anne Elvey (London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark).

(2016). “Staring Down the Violence: Surveillance in Genesis.” Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review. Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016): 161-177.

(2010). “Elements of Sentence Construction and Cohesion in Awad Bing.” pages 73-101 in Papers on Six Languages of Papua New Guinea. Edited by Joan Hooley (Canberra: ANU Pacific Linguistics Series).