Dialogue Gospel Study with Colby Townsend on October 25 

Colby Townsend is a dual PhD candidate in English and religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He has authored several articles in Journal of the Bible and Its Reception, Dialogue, and The Journal of Mormon History, an encyclopedia entry for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, and a few short essays in the forthcoming Mormonism in Five Minutes. His dissertation focuses on the ways that literary Orientalism influenced transatlantic Romantic authors’ writing about the Native American origins as from the East.