Dr Carolyn Alsen
Academic Governance Coordinator - Office of the Dean
PhD, Hebrew Bible, University of Divinity, Melbourne. M.A. Biblical Studies, Trinity Western University, Canada. Master of Linguistics and Biblical Exegesis, Trinity Western Seminary, Canada. Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, University of Queensland. Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics, SIL, Melbourne. Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland.
Carolyn Alsen is an educator and researcher in biblical studies, religious studies and linguistics, with experience in various institutions in Australia, North America, and the Pacific. Her main interest is in Hebrew Bible scholarship using postcolonial, feminist and ideological criticisms. Particularly, she is engaged in narratological research using the gaze and seeing to re-read and reconstruct Israelite identity in the Hebrew Bible. Carolyn has experience in researching biblical Semitic linguistics, Critical Theory and the Bible, field work in contextual reading for liberation and in minority language Bible translation.
Her pastoral and educational leadership experience is in university residential college and Christian parish-based pastoral work, secondary religious education and English teaching. Carolyn has six years of leadership experience in higher education as Learning and Teaching Manager and Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Divinity. She is currently working in academic governance, providing support and advice to the Academic Board sub-committees and consulting in academic Regulation and Policy development for the Sydney College of Divinity.