Patricia (Tish) Duncan, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D. University of Chicago
M.Div. University of Chicago
BA University of Missouri-Columbia

Current Projects

• Life Worth Living Faculty Course Development Fellowship, Yale Center for Faith and Culture, 2025-2026
• Interfaith America Faith and Health Campus Grant, TCU Faculty Team, 2025-2026

Teaching

• Understanding Religion: Life Worth Living
• Understanding Religion: Early Christianity
• Paul and the Early Church
• Christian Spiritual Practices
• Ancient Greek (Four Semester Sequence)                                                                              

Current Resarch Focus

Early Twentieth-Century Interpretation of the Bible

Selected Publications

• "The Form of God and the Emotional Qualities of Piety in the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Novel," Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 393-412
• “Faustus at the Borders of Christian Community,” In Search of Truth in The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies: New Approaches to a Philosophical and Rhetorical Novel of Late Antiquity. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022), 335-350
• “Eve, Mattidia, and the Gender Discourse of the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Novel,” Early Christianity 11 (2020): 171-190

• Novel Hermeneutics in the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Romance. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017