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Anne Elvey is a poet and researcher with interests in biblical literature, especially the Gospel of Luke, ecological feminism and ecopoetics. Her latest book, Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics, published in 2022, was awarded the Inaugural ANZATS Book Prize for an Established Scholar for work released between 2020 and 2022. Her most recent poetry collection Leaf was short-listed for the 2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize for the best work of creative writing with an ecological theme. Anne is an adjunct research fellow in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and an honorary research fellow at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity.

In her presentation focusing on the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37), she will invite participants to consider elements of a braided approach to reflecting on a biblical text. Anne’s braided reading practice weaves together contemporary approaches across decolonisation, ecological feminist hermeneutics, critical race studies, queer theory and the new materialism, to suggest ways of reading that speak into our social and ecological situations today.