BEATRICE MAROVICH
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Curriculum Vitae

 
 
Academic Appointments 

2016 - Present      Assistant Professor, Theological Studies, Hanover College

2014-2016             Assistant Professor, Philosophy & Religion, University of North Dakota. 

2010-2014            Adjunct Professor, Philosophy & Religion, Montclair State University. 

2009-2014            Adjunct Professor, Philosophy & Religion, Raritan Valley Community College.


​Education

2014            Ph.D., Theology & Philosophy, Drew University Graduate Division of Religion.
                    Dissertation Title: “Dream of the Creature: Religion, Ethics & Interspecies Kinship”


2009            M.A., Theological Studies, Vancouver School of Theology.           

2005            Non-Fiction Writing & Editing Program, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.           

2004            B.A., Spanish & Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).




Publications


Journal Articles


2018      “Peaceable Kingdoms in the Digital World” in Relegere, Vol. 7 No. 1-2 (2018).

2017       Co-Authored with Alex Dubilet, “Negotiating Terrain: Gender and the Postsecular?” An Introduction to the
               Special Issue, in The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory
, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 109-125.
 
2017      “Religion, Secularity, Gender, Violence & Death” in The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 179-195.
 
2016     “Religious Biodiversity and Our Common Home”, in Environmental Humanities, A Special Commentary Section: Replies to the
​               Papal Encyclical Laudato si, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 285-290.

2015     “Residues in the Secular: Whale Bones & Other Theological Relics”, in Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Special Issue on
               Theology & the Secular, vol. 54, no.4, pp. 355-366.

2013      “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.

2012      “Thing Called Love: That Old, Substantive Relation” in  Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism, Volume III (2012).

2010    “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

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2017      “Simone Weil” in Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage, Edited by Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani (Edinburgh University Press,     
                2017).

2017      “Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of Enjoyment” in Rethinking Whitehead’s
               Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture
, Edited by Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell, and Joseph Petek (Edinburgh University
               Press,  2017).

2017      “Recreating the Creature: Weil, Agamben, Animality and the Unsaveable” in Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy, Edited
​                by Rebecca Roselle-Stone (Rowman Littlefield International, 2017).

2017     “Commonalities: Theology, Evolutionary & Creaturely Bodies” in Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion & Materiality, Edited by
               Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).


2016     “Wishbone: Animals, Absolutes & the Connective Distinction”, in The Enigmatic Absolute: Speculation in Contemporary
                Philosophy of Religion,
Edited by Joshua Ramey & Matthew Harr Farris (London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield
               International, 2016).


2014     “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      “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


2019     Review of Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters by Mary-Jane Rubenstein (Columbia University Press, 2018) for Journal of
              the American Academy of Religion 
vol. 87 no. 3
(Spring 2019).

2018     "Religious Animals and Animal Gods" a review article in Humanimalia vol. 9 no. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 121-126.

2017      “Angels or Animals? Remixing Religion and Evolution with Affect Theory”, Review of Donovan Schaefer’s Religious Affects:
                Animality, Evolution, and Power
(Duke University Press, 2015), for Marginalia: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of
               Books 
(January 28, 2017).
 
2017       “Creaturely Becoming: Whitehead and Jainism”, Review of Brianne Donaldson, Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics
                 Matter for Animal and Planetary Liberation
(Lexington Books, 2015) for Society & Animals, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 313-317.
 
2015       “Undying or Undead?: A Response to Ward Blanton’s A Materialism for the Masses”, in Syndicate: A New Forum for
                 Theology
, vol. 1 no. 4, pp. 48-51.

2015     “Fear of the Crocodile is the Beginning of Wisdom?”, Review of Dan Wylie, Crocodile (Reaktion Books, 2013), for
               Humanimalia vol. 7 no. 1
(Fall 2015).

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.



Manuscripts in Preparation

Monographs
               Marovich, Beatrice. Sister Death: Political Theology in an Age of Extinction.


Presentations


Keynotes

2019      “The Powers of Death: On Bringing Death Back to Life” for “Death, Decay & Disgust”, DePaul University Graduate Student
​                Conference in Philosophy, January 25-26.

Panels Organized

2019      “The Powers of Gentleness and the Limits of the Human” for the Theology & Religious Reflection Unit, Annual Meeting of the
                American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.

2019      “Monstrous Animacies? Race, Gender, and Pantheological Divinities” for the Science, Religion & Technology Unit, Annual
                Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.

2017      "Reframing the Continental Philosophy of Religion" a Roundtable for the Theology & Continental Philosophy Group, Annual
               Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 18-21, Boston, MA.

2015      “Micrologics of the Postsecular” for the Theology & Continental Philosophy Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy
               of Religion, November 20-24, Atlanta, GA.

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 the Animals & Religion Group, Annual Meeting
              of the American Academy of
Religion, November 23-26, 2013.

Papers Presented


2019      “Shelters for the Dead and Spaces for the Living: Political Theology, Gentleness, and Extinction” for the Theology & Religious
                Reflection Unit, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.

2019      “This More Than Human Sorrow: Political Theology and Crying” for the Political Theology Network Conference, October 17-19,
                Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY.

2018      “Political Theology and the Earth” for the Political Theology Unit, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
                November 17-20, Denver, CO. 

2018      “In the Smoke of Burning Witches: Stengers, Weil and the Art of Immanent Attention” for the Theology and Continental
​                Philosophy Unit, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 17-20, Denver, CO.

2018    "Political Theology & the Intrusion of Gaia", for the Political Theology Network Conference, February 15-17, Emory University
             Conference Center, Atlanta, GA.

2017    “Anne Conway’s Creatures”, for the Workgroup on Constructive Theology, Annual Meeting, April 28-30, 2017, Vanderbilt
​            University, Nashville, TN.

2015    “In the Wreckage of Life’s Sanctity: Death & Postsecularity”, for the Theology & Continental Philosophy Group, Annual Meeting
​             of the American Academy of Religion, November 20-24, Atlanta, GA.

2015    “Animals in the Theory of Religion & the Mystification of Solidarity” Book Panel on Aaron Gross’ The Question of the Animal
               and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications
, for the Religion & Animals Group, Annual Meeting of the American
              Academy of Religion, November 20-24, Atlanta, GA.

2015    “Blood, Biopolitics & Affirmation: Kinship and the Mystification of Solidarity”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature,
              Science & the Arts, November 12-15, Rice University, Houston, TX.

2015    “Re-creating the Creature: Simone Weil & Unsaveable Animality”, Annual Meeting of the Society of Phenomenological and
              Existential Philosophy”, October 8-10, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

2015    “Communions or Cohabitations?: Postsecularity and the Social”, Association for the Continental Philosophy of Religion “Political
             Theology: Liberation of the Postsecular?”, July 10-12, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England, UK.

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 the Society 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, September
22-25, 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.


Discussant


2016     “Race, Capital, and Resistance”, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Theology & Continental Philosophy
              Group, November 19-22, 2016, San Antonio, Texas.
 
2014     “Theology & Violence”, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 22-25, San Diego, CA.

2013     “Figures of Immanence: Beyond Incarnational Logic”, Theology & Continental Philosophy Group,
              Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, 2013.


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Fellowships, Awards & Honors


2015    Helen LePage & William Hale Chamberlin Prize, Annual Dissertation Award, Drew University.

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.

2000-2004    University of Michigan Honors.





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