Rev Dr Anita Monro
Honorary Research Senior Fellow in Studies in Religion
Researcher biography
Anita Monro is currently Principal of Grace College, a residential College at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. She is a Minister of the Word in The Uniting Church in Australia, having been ordained on 10 December 1988; and has served on 2 major national commissions within that church, the Working Groups on Worship and Doctrine. She has taught in the disciplines of Biblical Studies (Hermeneutics), Systematic Theology, Practical Theology (Liturgy) and Philosophy in a range of tertiary settings including Brisbane College of Theology, Sydney College of Divinity, and Charles Sturt University (School of Theology).
Book
Monro, Anita (2006). Resurrecting erotic transgression: subjecting ambiguity in theology. London, United Kingdom: Equinox Publishing. doi: 10.4324/9781315478692
Book Chapters
Monro, Anita J. (2021). A Kaleidoscopic Vessel Sailing on a Kyriarchal Ocean: The Third Wave Feminist Theologies of Women-Church (1987-2007). Theological and Hermeneutical Explorations from Australia: Horizons of Contextuality. (pp. 25-42) edited by Jione Havea. Lanham, Maryland, United States: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing.
Monro, Anita (2020). Grace-fully engaging young adults. Open and relational leadership: leading with love. (pp. 225-229) edited by Roland Hearn, Sheri D. Kling and Thomas Jay Oord. Grasmere, ID, United States: SacraSage Press.
Ayre, Clive W., Bookless, Dave, Geyer, Colleen, Monro, Anita and Reichardt, David (2016). Ecology and service (Diakonia): Putting words into action. The Church in God's Household: Protestant Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ecology. (pp. 54-74) edited by Clive W. Ayre and Ernst M. Conradie. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications.
Burns, Stephen and Monro, Anita (2015). Which public?: inspecting the house of public theology. Public theology and the challenge of feminism. (pp. 1-14) edited by Stephen Burns and Anita Monro. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315744223-1
Monro, Anita (2014). Of frogs, eels, women, and pelicans: the myth of Tiddalik and the importance of ambiguity in baptismal identity for the contemporary Christian church. Worship and Culture: Foreign Country or Homeland?. (pp. 320-334) edited by Gláucia Vasconcelos Wilkey. Grand Rapids, MI, United States: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.
Monro, Anita (2014). A thin piercing lament: the call of God to Elijah in/to/for community. Witness the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ: papers in honour of Dean Drayton. (pp. 162-172) edited by Christopher C. Walker. Unley, SA, Australia: MediaCom Education.
Monro, Anita (2010). Pursuing feminist research: perspectives and methodologies. Researching practice: a discourse on qualitative methodologies. (pp. 289-298) edited by Joy Higgs, Nita Cherry, Rob Macklin and Rola Ajjawi. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Monro, Anita (2010). 'And ain’t I a woman': the phronetic dramaturgy of feeding the family. Presiding Like A Woman. (pp. 123-132) edited by Nicola Slee and Stephen Burns. London UK: SPCK Publishing.
Journal Articles
Monro, Anita (2017). "It's such a shame you're not in a Congregation!": Reclaiming the Ordered Ministry of the Word in the Uniting Church. Uniting Church Studies, 21 (1), 31-38.
Monro, A.J. (2016). Review of 'Christian doctrine and the grammar of difference' by Janice McRandal. Colloquium, 48 (2), 243-246.
Monro, Anita (2014). Experiencing good worship?. Liturgy, 29 (2), 9-13. doi: 10.1080/0458063X.2014.867135
Monro, Anita and Somasundram, Drene (2013). ‘Thirdspace’ engenders theological education. The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 2 (3), 55-68. doi: 10.18848/2154-8633/cgp/v02i03/51007
Monro, Anita (2010). Juxtaposing dingo and baby: a consideration of the cycle of light in the Australian summer. Studia Liturgica, 40 (1-2), 94-101. doi: 10.1177/0039320710040001-206
Monro, A (2001). Deconstruction, feminist theology, and the problem of difference: Subverting the race/gender divide. Australian Feminist Studies, 16 (35), 254-255.
Research Report
Mackinlay, Liz, Mickelburgh, Renee, Monro, Anita and Evans, Bonnie (2023). Interim project report: what’s worrying young people? Tuning into and turning up the conversation on consent in tertiary residential colleges. Lismore, NSW Australia: Southern Cross University. doi: 10.25918/report.298