William Robert teaches and writes about intersections and interactions of religion and performance. He is especially interested in limit-experiences and limit-crossings as performances of religion. He pays particular attention to mysticism, sexuality, and animality as sites where these experiences and crossings happen, focusing on case studies in ancient Greek and medieval Christian contexts. And he considers how such performances of religion can affect how we figure and refigure religion. To do so, he combines historical, textual, philosophical, and corporeal approaches to studying religion with queer theory and performance studies.
PhD Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 MA Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1999 MA Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1997 BA Philosophy and Literature, Davidson College, 1996
Associate Professor, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2016鈥損resent聽Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Programs in LGBTQ Studies and in Medieval and Renaissance Studies聽Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2011鈥�16 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2010鈥�11 Humanities Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2006鈥�10 Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, 2005鈥�06
Environmental Sociology; Environmental Justice Research Methodology; Race, Class, and Gender Stratification; Geographic Information Systems & Spatial Analysis; Theater of the Oppressed and African American Research Methods.
Racialized Spaces and the Emergence of Environmental Injustice (in) Echoes of Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Justice. Edited by Silvia Washington, Paul Rosier, and Heather Goodall. forthcoming
Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth, (co-edited with Anthony K. Nocella and Johnny Lupinacci) Palgrave McMillan, 2016
鈥淩ace(ing) to the Baby Market: The Political Economy of Overcoming Infertility鈥� in Motherhood 2.0: Consumption, Communication, and Mothering in the Twenty-first Century (editors Jennifer L. Borda, Anne T. Demo, and Charlotte H. Krolokke), University of Alabama Press, 2015
A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in 黑料不打烊, 黑料不打烊 Press, 2012
鈥淓xtending Timeline of Environmental Justice Claims: Redlining Map Digitization Project鈥� (co-authored with Eli Moore) Environmental Practice Journal 13 (4), December 2011: 325-339.
鈥淜atrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana鈥� in Seeking Higher Ground: The Race, Public Policy and Hurricane Katrina Crisis Reader (editors Manning Marable, Ian Steinberg, and Kristen Clarke-Avery), Palgrave MacMillan, 2008