EDUCATION
PhD, Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion, Drew University (2021)
Dissertation: Cyborg Trans/Criptions: Gender, Disability, and the Image of God
MA, Systematic and Philosophical Theology, Graduate Theological Union (2013)
Thesis: (Re-)Writing the Word of God: The Johannine Logos and Digital Textuality
BA (Hons), Classics, University College London (2010)
Professional Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor (2021 - present), Philosophy and Religion, Drake University
Select Classes Taught
Introduction to Religious Study
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Religions of the World
Contemporary Ethical Problems: Philosophy of Body Modification
Disability and Theology
Queer Religion
AWARDS AND HONORS
Rev. Robert W. Edgar Prize for Social Justice (Drew University, 2021)
Holstein Dissertation Fellowship (University of California, Riverside, 2018)
Maxine Clarke Beach Leadership Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Drew University, 2018)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Trans/Criptions: Gender, Disability, and Liturgical Experience” in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (August 2019)
“Gender: A Public Feeling?” in Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, edited by Stephen Moore and Karen Bray (2019)
“The Porcelain Throne” for Political Theology Network (2018)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“Blood Libel: Antisemitism, Transphobia, and the Possibility of the Transsexual Jew” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (2021)
“What God Needs with a Starship: The Necessity of Queer Speculative Theological Imagination” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (2019)
“Transgender, Disability, and Biomedicine in the Image of God” at the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability (2019)
“Ugly Laws, Black Codes, Cross-Dressing Arrests” at Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking (2018)
“Other People’s Bodies: Race, Gender, and the Feeling of Threat” at Capacious: Affect Inquiry / Making Space (2018)
“Repetition and Procreation: Theology and the Reproduction of Whiteness” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (2017)