wendy.mallette@ou.edu
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Wendy Mallette is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary American Christianities in the Department of Religious Studies and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research brings theoretical, archival and theological methods to bear on questions of gender, sexuality, race and affect across religious studies, Christian theology and gender studies.
Her first book, Lesbian Feminist Killjoys: Sin, Pessimism, and Queer Histories (under contract with New York University Press for their Hauntings series), examines the archives of lesbian feminist movements of the 1960s-1980s alongside Christian accounts of sin to grapple with anxieties about guilt and pessimism that haunt queer studies, religious studies and American public life.
Her next book project focuses on contestations between lesbian activists and conservative Christian women in the U.S. in the late twentieth century. She delves into artistic works—music, poetry, photography and literature—created by feminist collectives to respond to homophobia, white supremacy and misogyny among Christians. Her published work can be found in Religion Compass, Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Feminist Theology and Religion Dispatches.
During the 2024-2025 academic year, she was a Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Women’s Studies in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Theology) and a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. She also holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a B.A. from Valparaiso University.
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