Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is the eighth dean and president of Seminary of the  Southwest. She was appointed in 2013 after serving on the faculty as the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr.  Professor of New Testament and as academic dean. Committed to theological education for the  church, Dean Kittredge has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Theological  Education in the Anglican Communion, as Chair of the Board of the Episcopal Evangelism  Society, and President of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. A biblical scholar valued by her colleagues for her insight and generous collegiality, Dean  Kittredge is a contributor to The New Oxford Annotated Bible and the Women's Bible  Commentary, and the author of Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of  John and Community and Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition. She  co-edited The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times and Walk in the Ways  of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. She is the co-editor of the Fortress  Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament (2014). She also wrote A Lot of the Way Trees  Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark. 

Prior to joining the seminary faculty in 1999, Dean Kittredge taught at Harvard University and  the College of the Holy Cross. She serves as assisting priest at The Episcopal Church of the  Good Shepherd in Austin. 

She is married to Frank D. Kittredge, Jr. and they have three grown children.