He received his PhD in New Testament studies from Emory University. In addition to writing a number of scholarly articles, Dr. Wright is the author of Rhetoric and Theology: Figural Reading of John 9 and authored, with Father Francis Martin, the commentary The Gospel of John in the series The Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Dr. Wright was also appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue. He will be speaking at the Applied Biblical Studies Conference.