(The Rev. Canon) Hugh R. Page, Jr. is Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Scripture and Applied Ministries and Counsel to the Foundation for Anglican Affairs. He also serves as Vice President for Institutional Transformation, Advisor to the President, and Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a DMin from the Graduate Theological Foundation.  His research interests include early Hebrew poetry; Africana biblical interpretation; the role of mysticism and esotericism in Anglican and Africana spiritualities; and the Blues aesthetic as theological and hermeneutical paradigm. His most recent publications include (as sole author) Israel’s Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew Verse (Fortress, 2013); as general editor — with associate editors Valerie Bridgeman, Stacy Davis, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele), and Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. — The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora, 2nd ed. (Fortress, 2024); as co-editor (with Gale A. Yee and Matthew J. M. Coomber) the Fortress Commentary on the Old Testament and Apocrypha (Fortress, 2014), (with Stephen C. Finley and Margarita Simon Guillory) Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery” … (Brill, 2015), and (with Gay L. Byron) Black Scholars Matter: Visions, Struggles, and Hopes in Africana Biblical Studies (SBL Press, 2022).