Rebecca Bultman (Draughon)

Rebecca Bultmann studies the religious literature of the ancient Mediterranean. She is fascinated by the ways in which stories are told and retold by successive communities — how narratives morph and take on new meanings overtime, how the values of the storyteller shape the poetics of a tale, and how material realities influence what gets remembered. She took her first religious studies course in undergrad because she thought she knew a lot about the Bible and it looked like it would be an easy A. She's stayed in religious studies all these years later because she discovered in that class a new way of looking at the world. As an educator, she loves supporting students as they find these moments of discovery for themselves.