Writers at Work: Faculty Reading

Dr. Lisa Zimmerelli

Dr. Jill Snodgrass

Tuesday, March 30 at 6:00pm
Fourth Floor Program Room. 

Rev. Jill L. Snodgrass, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. She is a pastoral/practical theologian, a scholar-activist, and an ordained minister. Her research focuses on spiritual care and counseling with traditionally marginalized populations. Her recent publications include Women leaving prison: Justice-seeking spiritual support for female returning citizens (Lexington Books, 2019) as well as the co-edited volume Reframing trauma: A psychospiritual theory and theology (Fortress Press, 2025).

Lisa Zimmerelli is an Associate Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland, where she directed the Writing Center for ten years and served as Chair of the Writing Department for three. Her scholarship on nineteenth-century women's rhetoric and religious rhetoric has won the Rhetoric Society Quarterly Charles Kneupper Award and the Religious Communication Association's Book of the Year. She co-edited Untold Truths: Exposing Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola University Maryland (2024) with history professor David Carey and Loyola students, and Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics (MLA, 2020) with Patricia Bizzell. She writes personal essays on selfhood, identity, and the body, and is working on a memoir and a novel. She co-founded Moonbeam Oysters, a shoreline oyster restoration effort on the Chesapeake Bay, and sings with the Annapolis Chorale.