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A theologian with a particular interest in eschatology among a wide range of issues in contemporary theology and religious studies about which she has written, Catherine Keller is a professor of constructive theology in the Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew University. She studied at the University of Heidelberg, earned a master's degree from Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, and received a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion and theology in 1984 from the Claremont Graduate School, where she worked with John B. Cobb, Jr. in the Center for Process Studies. After teaching theology for three years at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, she joined the Drew faculty in 1986 and was named to her current position in 1998. The recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Keller has received research support from the Association of Theological Schools and the Lilly Foundation. She is a member of the executive committee of the American Theological Society. In addition to more than sixty articles published in scholarly journals and essays in volumes of collected works, she is the co-editor (with Anne Daniell) of Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernism (2002) and (with Mayra Rivera and Michael Nausner) of Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity, Hybridity and Empire (2004) and the author of five other books, including, From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self (1986), Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World (1996), and most recently, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming, an exploration of the repressed chaos in the biblical creation narrative, which was published last year by Routledge. A new study, God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys, will be released next spring by Fortress.