88 IntĂŠgritĂŠ: A Faith and Learning Journal
Notes on Contributors Jane Beal, Ph.D. <janebeal@gmail.com> is full professor and chair of English at the University of La Verne in Southern California. She has written the academic monograph, John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon (ACMRS/Brepols, 2012), and co-edited the festschrift, Translating the Past: Essays on Medieval Literature in Honor of Marijane Osborn (ACMRS, 2012). She also has written The Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre (Routledge, 2017), co-authored and co-edited Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl (MLA, 2018), edited and translated Pearl: A Middle English Edition and Modern English Translation (Broadview, 2020). She is the editor of two volumes of academic essays on the reception of major religious figures in the Middle Ages: Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception from Exodus to the Renaissance (Brill, 2014) and Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2019). She writes poetry, magical realist fiction, and creative non-fiction as well; her poetry collections include Sanctuary (Finishing Line Press, 2008), Rising (Wipf and Stock, 2014), and Song of the Selkie (Aubade, 2020). To learn more about her and her work, please visit https://janebeal.wordpress.com. Kathy Brashears <kbrashears@tntech.edu>, a former principal and classroom teacher, currently serves as a professor at Tennessee Technological University and has served in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction since 2004. Dr. Brashears teaches literacy courses and an English-as-a-Second-Language class for undergraduate students in an elementary teaching program and graduate students in a reading specialist program. Her research interests include cultural influences on teaching and learning, particularly in the Appalachian region, as well as reading and writing practices in the elementary school. She has contributed manuscripts to edited books and peer-reviewed journals, as well as presented at the local, state, national and international levels. Dr. Brashears has also served as president of the TN Reading Association and the International Reading Association Storytelling Special Interest Group. Scott N. Callaham <s.callaham@bts.org.sg> is Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament at Baptist Theological Seminary, Singapore, where he teaches in both Chinese and English. Dr. Callaham is author of Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010), lead editor of World Mission: Theology, Strategy, and Current Issues (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019), and has written book chapters and journal articles spanning Biblical Hebrew grammar and syntax, Old Testament theology, biblical theology, language learning, preaching, pastoral ministry, worship, and songwriting. He has served as a conference speaker and Bible translator, and he is also a composer of Chinese worship music for congregational singing. Dr. Callaham earned his Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2006.
