Education
Elvey has completed at Bachelor of Science with Honours,a Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary),a Bachelor of Theology,a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Philosophy. [1]
Her Masters thesis,completed at the Melbourne College of Divinity (now University of Divinity) in 1994,was titled The fertility of God:a study of the characterizations of Pseudo-Philo's Hannah and Luke's Mary. [2]
Her Doctoral thesis,awarded in 1999 from Monash University,Gestations of the sacred:ecological feminist readings from the Gospel of Luke, [3] was the basis for the later publication,An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke:A Gestational Paradigm. [4] One reviewer of this book congratulated Elvey on her innovative approach and important contribution to Lukan scholarship. [5]
Career
Elvey lives and works on Boon Wurrung Country in Seaford,Victoria. [6] [7]
She is an Honorary Research Associate at Trinity College,Theological School,University of Divinity,and an Adjunct Research Fellow,School of Languages,Literatures,Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University,in Melbourne,Australia. [6] Her research interests include ecological poetics,poetry and/as activism,ecological feminist hermeneutics,postcolonial biblical interpretation and political theology,and she has published widely in these areas. [7] [8]
Elvey was editor of Colloquium:The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review from May 2012 to May 2017 and president of the Fellowship for Biblical Studies in 2011. [8]
The Global Church Project included Elvey in its list of 20 Australian and New Zealander Female Theologians you should get to know in 2020. [9]
In addition to her academic publications,Elvey has also published several collections of poetry. She was the inaugurator and managing editor of Plumwood Mountain:An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics from 2013 to 2020. [10] [7] and editor-in-chief with Melbourne Poets’Union,from 2016 to 2018. [7]
Elvey edited the ebook Hope for whole:Poets Speak up to Adani. This book was the result of a Poets Speak up to Adani Day of Action in 2017,an event where poetry was used for 12 hours to protest the proposed Adani coal mine and its environmental consequences. [11] [12] The anthology was later recommended as a book that all Australian politicians should read. [13]
Her poetry collection,Kin was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2015. [14] [15]
Elvey's’s chapbook,This flesh that you know was the winner of the international prize in the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Competition in 2015. [7] [16]
The book Intatto/Intact which she co-authored with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore,was one of the first 30 volumes of environmental poetry donated to the Quarticciolo Library,as part of the European Festival of Environmental Poetry [17]
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