BA, GradDipAppLing, GradDipEd, MA(BibStud), Master of Linguistics and Exegesis, PhD(HebrewBible)
Dr Carolyn Alsen is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education, Academic Programs, University of Divinity. Carolyn has experience in Higher Education management, academic quality and strategic planning, lecturing in biblical studies and linguistics, curriculum design, quality compliance and research in Australian and international Universities. In her role, Carolyn drives improvements to academic quality and student experience at the University.
This role supports the Education Pillar in the University’s Strategic Plan. The role includes Higher Education research for Academic Board to improve student experience and outcomes, development and quality reviews of the University’s awards and curriculum, management of staff teaching accreditation, and ECR classifications. Carolyn leads educational professional development for academic staff, including orientation, Higher Education issues, skills for staff to deliver course advice, teaching and learning development and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Her research and teaching interests including the gaze, Evil Eye and surveillance in the Hebrew Bible, Critical Theory and the Hebrew Bible, biblical decolonizing and gender criticism, the book of Genesis and biblical Semitic linguistics. Her pastoral and educational experience includes assistant to Principal at a University residential college, Christian parish-based pastoral work and teaching secondary religious education and English.
Essays include “Seeing Biblical Worlds Through Surveillance.” A Curious Machine: Wesleyan Reflections on the Post-Human Future, Eds. O’Brien and Ermakov, Wipf and Stock (forthcoming); “Veiled Resistance: The Cognitive Dissonance of Vision in Genesis 38” in Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible, Ed. Cataldo Bloomsbury (2019); “Drones Over Sodom: Resisting the Fantasy of Security” in Ecological Aspects of War: Engagements with Biblical Texts, Eds. Dyer and Elvey, Bloomsbury (2017); “Staring Down the Violence: Surveillance in Genesis” Colloquium (2016); and “Elements of Sentence Construction and Cohesion in Awad Bing.” in Papers on Six Languages of Papua New Guinea, Ed. Hooley, ANU Pacific Linguistics (2010).
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Senior Lecturer in Higher Education
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- Society of Biblical Literature (Member)
- ANZATS (Member)
- Fellowship for Biblical Studies Australia (Melbourne) (Member)
- Victorian Institute of Teaching (Member)
- Society of Asian Biblical Studies (Member)