A nomadic immigrant, Candis has lived in North America, Northern Africa, Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific Islands. She has experience in teaching Bible courses to post-graduate literature students in secular classrooms and working with the church in a variety of overseas contexts. Her keen interests are history and literature, and her areas of focus within those fields include cross-cultural encounters, marginalized voices, the presence of pain and alterity, and portrayals of “the other,” particularly portrayals directed to children in historical texts. Currently, Candis is working on reframing her Ph.D. dissertation into a book exploring the relationship between British culture and historical mission. She has publications in Evangelical Quarterly and Brill’s forthcoming Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900.
Research interests
The history of indigenous mission, especially regarding China, Japan, Korea, and India; the relationship between mission and imperialism; Anglicanism’s participation in historical mission; ecumenical and education movements; missionary societies; missionary texts; portrayals of missionaries in modern and post-modern literature
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