Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, associate professor of religion and philosophy, joined the Greensboro College faculty in 1997. She earned the doctorate from Duke University in Hebrew Bible with additional concentrations in New Testament and women's studies. Her primary research interests revolve around the status of w omen in religious texts and faith communities. She has recently published an article on the biblical character Jael (Judges 4-5) in The Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigraphaand 27 articles on various topics in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, Apocryphal/ Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Since joining the faculty, Burnette-Bletsch was instrumental in the creation of a women's studies minor and currently serves as its coordinator. In this capacity she advises students who minor in women's studies and offers faculty development opportunities in gender research. She organized a "Gender and Film" discussion series for faculty during the summer of 1998 and facilitated an ongoing discussion group on feminist pedagogy and scholarship the previous summer. During the current academic year she is participating in another women's studies faculty development program sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Burnette-Bletsch enjoys interacting with students in the classroom, where she regularly teaches introductory sections of Old and New Testament. Over the last few years she has developed new courses in American Christianity, women in Judeo-Christian Traditions, biblical wisdom and poetry, and biblical archaeology. Because she believes that students learn best by doing, she attempts to make learning an active process for her students rather than relying solely on a lecture format. Her views on teaching and learning are reflected in an article she published in the Duke Journal of Gender, Law and Policy on "Gender and The Higher Education Classroom: Maximizing the Learning Environment."
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