Mark Edward Chard is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Arts (Theology and Religion) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a Full Member of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the European Association of Biblical Studies.
His research operates across biblical reception history, Black and womanist theology, phenomenology of religion, and consciousness studies.
His peer-reviewed publications include work in Theology (T&T Clark/Duke University Press — two papers, both assessed by Professor George Pattison, former Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford), Biblical Interpretation (Brill), the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, and the Scientific God Journal.
Further articles are accepted subject to revision in Black Theology: An International Journal, Bible and Critical Theory, Practical Theology, the Journal of Pastoral Theology, and the Journal of Scriptural Reasoning.
Papers are currently under review at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (two papers), Horizons in Biblical Theology, Biblical Interpretation (Brill), Exchange (Brill), the Anglican Theological Review, the Journal of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter), and the Journal of Near-Death Studies (two papers), among others — twenty-three papers in total across the publication pipeline.
His synthesis monograph, Transdiasporic Lament and the Revelationary Spirit: Relational Geometry, Black Maternal Theology, and the Architecture of Threshold Experience (~88,000 words), is currently under consideration by UKZN Press, with co-publication discussions underway with the University of Illinois Press.
Profoundly shaped by the continuing relational presence of his twin brother, Darren John Chard (d. December 2020), Mark's scholarship explores grief, witness, and hope across biblical, psychological, and communal contexts. His research centres biblical reception history within Black religious traditions, womanist and Black liberation theology, trauma-informed hermeneutics, sacred geometry, and relational eschatology.
His work is freely accessible via Academia.edu, Humanities Commons (CORE), and SSRN.
"I write what I hear when God speaks."
ABOUT MARK EDWARD CHARD
Mark Edward Chard is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Arts (Theology and Religion) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a Full Member of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the European Association of Biblical Studies.
His research operates across biblical reception history, Black and womanist theology, phenomenology of religion, and consciousness studies.
