Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield is director of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion. Known for her pedagogical and administrative vision and creativity, Westfield’s dynamic leadership focuses upon teachers who want to improve their teaching and have a more balanced teaching life. Westfield’s blog, “Teaching on the Pulse” explores the day-to-day challenges and joys of teaching. She hosts a podcast entitled “Dialogue on Teaching” - the Wabash Center’s on-air series of conversations with thought leaders in higher education and theological education. Westfield’s latest book is entitled Glimpses of Me and Mine: a Creative Biography (Wipf and Stock, 2023). Additionally, she is the author of Being Black, Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies (Abingdon, 2008), Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) and Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality (Pilgrim Press, 2001). Westfield has published many scholarly and popular articles as well as children’s books.
