Author. Professor. Mother.
Melanie Springer Mock is an award-winning professor and author, a mother, a runner. an image-bearer of our creator. Melanie is a professor of English at George Fox University, Newberg, Ore. In 2009, she won the GFU Undergraduate Faculty of the Year award, and in 2015, she received the GFU Undergraduate Researcher of the Year award. She is the author or co-author of five books, including most recently Worthy: Finding Yourself in a World Expecting Someone Else (Herald Press, 2018). Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Christian Feminism Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Mennonite World Review, among other places. She has finished 50 marathons, a dozen or more triathlons, and countless training runs. She lives in Dundee, Ore., with her husband and two teen sons.
About Melanie’s Work
“Melanie Springer Mock’s Worthy uniquely weaves scholarly inquiry and good storytelling into a powerful witness.”
Bettina Pedersen, professor of literature and women’s studies, Point Loma Nazarene University
“Melanie Springer Mock’s Worthy is so many things: memoir and resource, theological reflection and cultural critique . . . wise, cantankerous, charming.”
Bromleigh McCleneghan, author of Good Christian Sex
“Reading Worthy is like sitting down for a cup of coffee with a best friend you didn’t know you had. Melanie Springer Mock both affirms the worthiness of every human being as created in God’s image, and gently leads her reader to consider larger questions of social justice in the context of individual worth. This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, watching the parade of ‘haves’ go by while perennially feeling like a ‘have not.’”
Elrena Evans, editor at Evangelicals for Social Action
Author
Six books
Bylines in national and local publications
Book reviewer
Professor
22-year career at George Fox University
Teaching load includes journalism and nonfiction writing
2009 Undergraduate Teaching Award
2015 Undergraduate Researcher of the Year
MOTHER
Two sons, two stepchildren, two grandchildren
White-knuckling the rollercoaster of parenting young adults