​AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION​

Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Political Theology, Religion and Gender, Gender and Popular Culture

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AREAS OF COMPETENCY
​Philosophy
Feminist and Postcolonial Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Ethics
 

​Women’s Studies
Feminist Theory, Feminist Epistemology, Medieval and Early Modern Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Religious Feminisms, Transnational Feminisms, Feminisms of Global South, Feminist Theology
 

​Religious Studies
Religion and Culture, Reformation Theology, Process Thought/Open and Relational Theologies, Religious Ethics
 
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2017-2018     Assistant Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Riverside City College

2017               Senior Adjunct Philosophy Faculty, Azusa Pacific University

 

​PUBLICATIONS​

 

Book Chapters

"Hoping Against Hope: A Response to M. Shawn Copeland," Faith, Hope, and Love Today: Challenges and Opportunities, ed. Anselm K. Min, forthcoming 2017.

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"Forgiveness and Afro-pessimism, Or, Can Beyoncé Tell Us Anything About Justice?: A Response to Regina M. Schwartz," Love and Justice, eds. Ingolf U. Dalferth and Trevor Kimball (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2017).

 

"Resisting Consumerist Christianity: Refiguring a Radical Evangelism through Braidotti's New Materialism," Subverting the Norm: Can Postmodern Theology Live in the Church?, eds. Phil Snider and Katharine Sarah Moody (Aurora, CO: The Davies Group Publishing, forthcoming).
 

"Undecidability of Hope: A Response to Hirokazu Miyazaki's 'Hope in the Crack of the Social: Reading the Book of Job in Post-Fukushima Japan," Hope, eds. Ingolf U. Dalferth and Marlene Block (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2015): 391-400.

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"Other Than Self: A Response to Pierre Bühler," The Legacy of Paul Ricœur, eds. Ingolf U. Dalferth and Marlene Block, vol. 72 of Religion in Philosophy and Theology (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2015): 197-207.

 

“A Response to Rosemary Radford Ruether: Hope in the Face of Limitation,” The Task of Theology: Leading Theologians on the Most Compelling Questions for Today, eds. Anselm K. Min (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2014): 207-214.

 

“Materiality of Metaphor: The Risk of Revelation,” Revelation, eds. Ingolf U. Dalferth and Michael C. Rodgers, vol. 71 of Religion in Philosophy and Theology (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2013): 185-200.

 

“Religious Conversion as Risk: A Response to Anselm Min,” Conversion, eds. Ingolf U. Dalferth and Michael C. Rodgers, vol. 70 of Religion in Philosophy and Theology (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2013): 167-177.

“Loss of ‘Self,’ Grievability of Life, and Reharmonizing Political Potential,” On the Occasion: Butler on Whitehead, eds. Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, Deena Lin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012): 219-238.

 

Book Reviews

“Jasper, Alison E. Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius” (book review), Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 42.8 (Fall 2013): 1013-1019.

 

Other Publications

“Banking & Property,” All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World, vol. 1, ed. Wendy Martin (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014): 63-68.

 

“Bride,” All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World, vol. 1, ed. Wendy Martin (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014): 107-110.

 

“Inheritance,” All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World, vol. 2, ed. Wendy Martin (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014): 479-483.

 

“Literary Themes & Imagery,” All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World, vol. 2, ed. Wendy Martin (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014): 534-540.

 

“Marriage & Property Rights,” All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World, vol. 2, ed. Wendy Martin (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014): 564-568.

 

“ 'The Legacy and Lure of John Cobb, Jr.': Public Lecture by Marjorie Suchocki and David Griffin,” Process Perspectives 31.1 (Spring 2008).​

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2016                    National Women's Studies Association Membership Grant

2015                    National Women's Studies Association Membership Grant

2014                    National Women's Studies Association Travel Grant

2014                    Popular Cultural Association/American Cultural Association Travel Grant

2013-2014         Claremont Graduate University Dissertation Fellowship

2009-2010         Claremont Graduate University Travel Award

2007-2009         Claremont Graduate University Fellowship

2004-2006         New York University Chancellor's List

 

​CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

2016     "Fat and Sacred: A Constructive Theology Transgressing the Boundaries of Beauty and Belief," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19-22.

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2016     "Afro-pessimism, Avowal, and the Limits of a Politics of Love, Or: What Beyoncé Can Teach Us About Revolutionary Love," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19-22.

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2016     Response to M. Shawn Copeland's "Embodying Faith, Hope, and Love: Theopolitical Virtues in Realization of the Common Good," Faith, Hope, and Love Today: Challenges and Opportunities, April 15-16.

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2016     "Orange You Glad for Netflix?: Viewership, Activism, & the Netflix Solution," Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association National Conference, March 22-25.

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2016     "Forgiveness and Afro-pessimism, or Can Beyoncé Tell Us Anything About Justice?: A Response to Regina M. Schwartz," Thirty-Seventh Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Love and Justice, February 19-20.

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2015     "The Feminist Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Professor Paradox: A Meditation on Political Theology," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, November 12-15.

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2015     "The Female Protagonist: Sexual Autonomy, Power, and Female Sexuality in Starz' Outlander," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, April 1-4.

 

2015     "The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy: A Response to Amy Hollywood," Thirty-Sixth Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Self or No Self, February 20-21.

 

2014     "Online Feminist Resistance & the Risk of Democracy: Responding to Empire, Capitalism, and Corporate Greed through Digital Feminist Activism," National Women's Studies Association Conference, November 13-16.

 

2014     "Chasing the Chicken: The Portrayal of Religious Belief as Escapism in Orange is the New Black," Popular Cultural Association/American  Culture Association National Conference, April 16-19.

 

2014     "Toward a Theological Anthropology: A Response to Hirokazu Miyazaki," 35th Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Hope, February 13-15.

 

2013     "Teaching GWS Guerilla-Style: Sneaking Feminism into 'Intolerant' Spaces," National Women's Studies Association Conference, November 7-10.

 

​2013      "Human and Post-Human: Age, New Media, and Cyborg Feminism," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, November 7-10.

 

2013     “Resisting Consumerist Christianity: Rosi Braidotti’s Deleuzianism as a New Evangelism,” Subverting the Norm: Can Postmodern Theology Live in the Church?, April 5-6.

​2013     “ ‘Here I stand…’: Hermeneutics of the Self as a Legacy of Reformation Thought: A Response to Pierre Bühler,” 34th Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Paul Ricœur, February 8-9.



2012     “Occupy the Church: How Should the Church Respond to the Needs of the 99%?” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 17-20.
 

2012    “Ecofeminism: The Challenge to Theology: A Response to Rosemary Radford Ruether,” What are the Most Compelling Issues in Contemporary Theology?, April 20-21.
 

2012     “Materiality and Metaphor: A Feminist Reading of Revelation,” 33rd Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Revelation, February 10-11.
 

2011     “Pitching Our Tent: Meditations on a Portable Feminist Theology: A Response to Elizabeth Ritter-Conn,” Society for Philosophy and Religion in Claremont’s 3rd Annual Conference, March 24-25.
 

2011     “Dialectic of Conversion in the Age of Globalization: A Response to Anselm Min,” 32nd Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Conversion, February 11-12.
 

2009     “Deconstruction and Multiplicity of Selves: Searching for Political and Ethical Possibilities in Paul de Man, A.N. Whitehead, and Judith Butler,” Becomings, Misplacements, Departures: Whitehead & Butler As Catalysts for Contemporary Thought, December 3-5.
 

2009     “Religion and a(n) (Embodied) Politics of Process,” American Academy of Religion Annuael Meeting, November 7-10.

 

Panels Organized

2016     "Problems With and Uses for Decoloniality: Identity and Hegemony," National Women's Studies Association Conference, November 10-13 .

 

2016     "Netflix and Women: Explorations into Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Netflix-Only Content," Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association National Conference, March 22-25.

 

2015     "The Academy as Precarious Space in an Age of Adjuncts, Decreased Funding, Careerism, and Social/Religious Tension," National Women's Studies Association Conference, November 12-15.

 

2015     "Changing the Channel: Sexuality, Rape, Race, and Body Politics in Game of Thrones, Outlander, Call the Midwife, and House of Cards, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, April 1-4.

 

2014     "Digital Feminist Futures – Feminist Activism Online and Responses to a Growing Digital Age," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, November 13-16.

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2009     “Multiplicity Within/Out,” Western Commission for the Study of Religion Conference, March 20-22.
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

California Lutheran University

Introduction to Christianity (2014-2017, 3 sections)

Sexual Ethics (2014-2017, 4 sections)

Contemporary Christian Ethics (2016-2017, 1 section)

Women and Religion (2016-2017, 1 section)

 

Azusa Pacific University

Introduction to Philosophy (2012-2017, 24 sections)

 

Ashford University

Ethics and Moral Reasoning (2013-2017, 11 sections)

Informal Logic (2013-2017, 5 sections)

 

Claremont Graduate University

Ecofeminism (Spring 2012)

 

Matristics (Spring 2011)

 

Transnational Feminisms (Fall 2009)

     As TA, I designed and sole-taught this course.

 

Third World Feminist Theologies (Fall 2008)

 

​COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH

Religious Feminisms; Women and Religion; Religion and Identity: Belief, Practice, and the 'Self;' Performing Justice Through Film and Theater; Philosophical Theology; Matristics; Theology and Popular Culture; Sexual Ethics; Christian Ethics; Political Theologies; Process Theology

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​RESEARCH EXPERIENCE​
​2013-2014         Research Assistant to Randy Ramal, Claremont Graduate University

2012-2013         Research Assistant to Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University

                                          Conducted and assisted in research related to the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne project.

2009-2012         Research Assistant to Esther Chung-Kim, Claremont McKenna College

                                         Conducted and assisted in research related to the Reformation Commentary on Scripture for InterVarsity Press. 

2008-2012         Research Assistant to Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University

2011                    Visiting Scholar, Üniversität Zürich

                                         Research at Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionphilosophie. 

​2009-2011         Digital Libraries Assistant, Honnold-Mudd Library

                                         Archival work.

2009                    Visiting Scholar, Varanasi, India

                                        Observation, teaching, and research at Nirman, a local NGO and school. 

 

​SERVICE TO PROFESSION​​

2010-2011         Vice-President, Religion Student Council, Claremont Graduate University

2009-2012         Assistant Editor, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS​

American Academy of Religion

National Women's Studies Association

Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association

 

REFERENCES​
Available upon request.​