She wasn’t on my dissertation committee but I did take several seminars with her (on Gnosticism and a multi year seminar on NRMs).

Speaking candidly, I found her writing feedback often very tough, but looking back I can appreciate the push. I think her main students could probably tell you more.

She grounds discussion of ancient texts with references to movies like The Matrix, Pleasantville, The Truman Show & Dark City.

The other thing that stood out to me is how she pushed back against scholars like Karen King and Michael Allen Williams who try to disaggregate Gnosticism as a category.

I went to Rice and studied a bit with DeConick and we read this book accompanied by a film festival of the movies she discussed, which was pretty interesting