2014Ph.D., Theology & Philosophy, Drew University Graduate Division of Religion. Dissertation Title: “Dream of the Creature: Religion, Ethics & Interspecies Kinship”
2009M.A., Theological Studies, Vancouver School of Theology.
2005Non-Fiction Writing & Editing Program, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
2004B.A., Spanish & Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
Academic Appointments
2016 - Present Assistant Professor, Theological Studies, Hanover College
2014-2016Assistant Professor, Philosophy & Religion, University of North Dakota.
2010-2014Adjunct Professor, Philosophy & Religion, Montclair State University.
2009-2014Adjunct Professor, Philosophy & Religion, Raritan Valley Community College.
2012Adjunct Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies, Kean University.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
2013Marovich, Beatrice, “When Death Became a Creature: Saint Francis and Sister Death” in Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, Volume 7 (2013). Translated into Swedish: Beatrice Marovich, “När döden blev en skapelse: Franciskus oc Syster Död”, Translated by Marten Bergqvist, in Subaltern vol. 3-4 (2013), pp. 37-65.
2012Marovich, Beatrice, “Thing Called Love: That Old, Substantive Relation” in Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism, Volume III (2012).
2010 Marovich, Beatrice, “Myself: Walt Whitman’s Political, Theological Creature,” Anglican Theological Review, Volume 92, No. 2 (Spring 2010). Translated into Hungarian: Beatrice Marovich, “Magamról: Walt Whitman politikai és teológiai világmindensége”, in Hitel vol. 12 (December 2011), pp. 80-95.
Book Chapters
2015 Marovich, Beatrice (forthcoming 2015), “Reverence & Revision: The Creature as Symbol” in Rethinking Symbolism: Whitehead the Problems of Thought, Language & Culture, Edited by Roland Faber, Jeffrey Bell & Joseph Petek.
2015 Marovich, Beatrice (forthcoming 2015), “Commonalities: Theology, Evolutionary & Creaturely Bodies” in Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion & Materiality, Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
2015 Marovich, Beatrice (forthcoming 2015), “Wishbone: Animals, Absolutes & the Connective Distinction”, in The Enigmatic Absolute: Speculation in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Edited by Joshua Ramey & Matthew Harr Farris.
2014 Marovich, Beatrice, “Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke & God’s Animal Body”, in Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology, Edited by Stephen Moore (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014).
2014 Marovich, Beatrice, “Of Creaturely Things: Living Matter, Dead Matter & the Resonance of Actual Entities”, in The Allure of Things: New Forms of Speculative Thought, Edited by Andrew Goffey & Roland Faber (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014).
Book Reviews
2015 Marovich, Beatrice (forthcoming 2015), “Fear of the Crocodile is the Beginning of Wisdom?”, Review of Dan Wylie, Crocodile (Reaktion Books Ltd., 2013), for Humanimalia.
2013 Marovich, Beatrice, Review of Why Are Women More Religious Than Men? by Marta Trzebiatowska & Steve Bruce (Oxford University Press, 2012), for Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 22, Issue 2.
2012 Marovich, Beatrice, Review of Cosmology Ecology, and the Energy of God Edited by Donna Bowman & Clayton Crockett (Fordham University Press, 2012) for Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, Volume 16, Issue 3.
2011 Marovich, Beatrice, Review of Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology by Jussi Parikka (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). for Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism, Volume II.
2009 Marovich, Beatrice, Review of Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion & Theology Edited by Rita Nakashima Brock, Jung Ha Kim, Kwok Pui-Lan & Seung Ai Yang (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007), for Anglican Theological Review, Volume 91, No. 4.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Monographs Marovich, Beatrice. Creature Feeling: Power and Affect in Creaturely Life.
Journal Articles Marovich, Beatrice, “Theological Relics: The Secular Lives of Theological Concepts”, in Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Special Issue on Secular Theology 2015.
Marovich, Beatrice “Introduction” and “Negotiating Terrain: Postsecularity & Cohabitation” in a Special Issue The Journal of Cultural & Religious Theory, on Gender and the Postsecular, Spring/Summer 2016.
Presentations
Panels Organized
2014 “The Eclipse of Gender?: Postsecularity & Difference in the Future of Continental Thought” for the Theology & Continental Philosophy Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 22-25, 2014.
2013“Political Animals & Animal Politics: The Knots of Sovereignty and Animality” for theAnimals & Religion Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy ofReligion, November 23-26, 2013.
Papers Presented
2014“Negotiating Terrain: Postsecularity & Co-Habitation”, Theology & Continental Philosophy Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 22-25, 2014.
2014“Grief Work and ‘Animal Capital’ in a Secular Age”, Joint Session of the Animals and Religion and Death, Dying and Beyond Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 22-25, 2014.
2014 “Connective Distinction: Animality & the Duplicity of Kinship”, Annual Meeting of theSociety for Literature, Science & the Arts, Dallas, October 9-12, 2014.
2014“Commonalities: Theology, Evolutionary Theory & Creaturely Bodies”, Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, “Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, Materiality”, Drew University, March 20-30, 2014.
2013“Sovereign Side-Effect: Creatures, Bare Life & the Chimera of Kinship”, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, Maryland, November 23-26, 2013.
2013“Female Philosophers, Frankenstein, and the Complexity of Creaturely Life”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, University of Notre Dame, October 3-6, 2013.
2013“Digital Education, MOOCs, and the Specter of the Cyberteacher”, Emerging Learning Design, Montclair State University, June 10, 2013.
2013“Spectral Creatures and the Figure of Justice”, Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium “Economy, Ecology, Political Theology”, Drew University, February 7-10, 2013.
2012“Zebra is the ‘Repairman’ & He Is Here: Philip K. Dick & the Divine Animal”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, Milwaukee, September 27-30,2012.
2012 “Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke & God’s Animal Body.” Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, April 20, 2012.
2011 “Plastic, Fantastic: Creaturely (Cellular) Immortality in Popular Science.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, Kitchener, Ontario, September22-25, 2011.
2011“Undoing & Redoing the Creature: On Sensing the Possibility of Justice. Annual Meeting of the American Simone Weil Society, Berkeley, CA, May 6-7, 2011.
2011“Writing the Intercellular Social: Toward a Feminist Bioethic of Entanglement and Caring” Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the American Academy of Religion, New Brunswick, NJ, March 17-18, 2011.
2010“Of Creaturely Things: Reflections on the Actual Entity.” Fourth International Congress of the Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, CA, December 2-4, 2010.
2010"Revolting Creatures: Women, Animals and Transformation in the Martyr's Arena", Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Joint Consultation between Women & Religion and Animals & Religion, Atlanta, GA, October 30, 2010.
2010 “Kiki Smith’s Immortal Creature: Sacramental Poetics at the Limits of Mortality” Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the American Academy of Religion, New Brunswick, NJ, March 11-12, 2010.
2009“Political Creatures in Theological Cosmologies: Exploring New Frontiers in Theological/Political Agonisms”, Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium “Polydoxy: Theologies of the Manifold”, Drew University, October 1-4, 2009. Discussant
2013“Figures of Immanence: Beyond Incarnational Logic”, Theology & Continental Philosophy Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, 2013.
Panels Chaired
2013 “Dreams & Visions in Biblical Literature”, Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism Section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 23-26, 2013.
Fellowships, Awards & Honors
2014 National Endowment of the Humanities, Summer Institute, “Problems in the Study of Religion”, held at University of Virginia, July 7-25, 2014.
2013 Human-Animal Studies Fellowship, Funded by the Animal Studies Institute-Wesleyan Animal Studies, held at Wesleyan University, May 28 – July 3, 2013.
2013 Adjunct Faculty Research Grant, “Democratic Education & Digital Learning”, Raritan Valley Community College.
2010 Robert Streetman Outstanding Essay Award, American Academy of Religion.
2009 Charles Hefling Student Essay Prize, Anglican Theological Review.
2007 Academic Merit Full Tuition Scholarship, Vancouver School of Theology.
2007 Annual Fellowship, Religion Newswriter’s Association, San Antonio, Texas.
2005 Writing Competition Winner & Full Tuition Scholarship, The Salt Institute of Documentary Studies.
