Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Well, the future is certainly looking bright for those of us in academia..
In all seriousness, though, with more PhD’s coming out every year than demand can support I would seriously encourage everyone applying to grad school to accept an offer only if it is a top program or if you will have a very well known (positively) advisor within a field. There is a lengthy backlog of people with Ivy or equivalent PhD’s applying for every single tenure track position that opens up in religion/theology every year, and that list continues to grow as the supply/demand disparity continues.