Julie Durbin

Julie Durbin is Associate Professor of Humanities and Writing at Geneva College, where she directs first year English composition and the writing center. She served with Free Methodist World Missions for ten years in Ukraine and did research on worship in Ukrainian simple churches.

REVIEW: A Report from Wartime Kyiv

Julie Durbin | October 15, 2024

Illia Ponomarenko profiles a love that does not flee

FORUM: AI and Education

Michael Dieter, Jim Cullen, Una M. Cadegan and Julie Durbin | September 4, 2024

Should teachers regard AI as an invasion? An intervention?

REVIEW: No Questions, No Lies

Julie Durbin | August 9, 2023

Amanda McCrina’s characters glow like embers

Ideas in Progress: Julie Durbin on vocation, mission, teaching, and the creative life (Part II)

Julie Durbin | May 31, 2023

In part I of this interview, you told the fascinating story of the many hats you have worn and currently wear—missionary and traveler, writer and musician, and of course, professor. So, let’s pick up now with this last one, in […]

Ideas in Progress: Julie Durbin on vocation, mission, teaching, and the creative life (Part I)

Julie Durbin | May 30, 2023

I have gotten glimpses but would love to hear more about your vocational life so far. You are currently an academic, but you have also spent a significant part of your life on the mission field in Ukraine. What was this like? What […]

REVIEW: Who’ll Rock that Cradle?

Julie Durbin | November 30, 2022

Only a heart properly broken can bear the weight of a world at war