Wendy Mallette is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies and a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Yale University after receiving a M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School and a B.A. from Valparaiso University. She is currently working on a book, Lesbian Feminist Killjoys: Sin, Pessimism, and Queer Histories (under contract with NYU Press), that draws on the archives of lesbian feminist public cultures of the 1960s through 1980s to intervene in conversations around negativity, sin, and affect in queer studies and religious studies. More broadly, her research brings critical theories of gender, sexuality, race, and animality to bear on questions of doctrine and method in religious studies and Christian theology. Her published work can be found in Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Feminist Theology, and Religion Dispatches. She teaches courses, including Queer Religion, Introduction to Christianity, and Introduction to Religious Studies. During the 2024-2025 academic year, Dr. Mallette will be a Research Associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School.
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