Kwok Pui-lan

Kwok Pui-lan was born in Hong Kong and is the Dean's Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was the 2011 President of the American Academy of Religion and the former William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School. She has published extensively in Asian feminist theology, biblical interpretation, and postcolonial criticism. She is the cofounder of the network Pacific, Asian, North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (www.PANAAWTM.org) and enjoys yoga and reading.

She is the author and editor of 22 books in English and Chinese, including “Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology,” “Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude,” (with Joerg Rieger), “Introducing Asian Feminist Theology,” and “Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World.” She is coeditor of the book series “Religion in the Modern World” published by Rowman and Littlefield. Her blogs can be found at http://kwokpuilan.blogspot.com.