Assistant Professor of Theology, Pastoral Theology
Director, Sustained Encuentro
Areas of Teaching and Research
Daniella Zsupan-Jerome teaches in the areas of Pastoral theology, Religious Education and Catechesis, and Pastoral Communication.
Biography
Daniella Zsupan-Jerome is assistant professor of pastoral theology at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary. She also directs Sustained Encuentro, a grant project of the Lilly Endowment’s Pathway to Tomorrow initiative.
Her research explores the intersection of social communication, digital culture, and pastoral theology. She has served as a consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Communications, as an educational consultant to the Catholic Media Association, and as a tutor for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication’s Faith in the Digital Age project.
Select Publications
- Speak Lord Your Servant Is Listening: Reflections on Faithful Communication in a Digital Age (Liturgical Press, 2024)
- Evangelization and Catechesis: Echoing the Good News through the Documents of the Church (Twenty-Third Publications, 2017)
- Authority and Leadership: Values, Religion, Media (co-editor, Blanquerna, 2017)
- Connected Toward Communion: The Church and Social Communication in the Digital Age (Liturgical Press, 2014)
Research Interests
- Social Communication
- Evangelization and Catechesis
- Digital Culture
- Benedictine Spirituality