ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
"Acting Out and Acting In," delivered at European Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland (2023).
“An Ensemble Production: Liturgical Healing in Times of Trauma,” keynote address presented at Andrews University Music and Worship Conference, Berrien Springs, MI (2022).
“What’s at Stake?” delivered at Good Trouble: A Critical Race Theory Colloquy. Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary (2021).
"Theological Reparations: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sin," presented with Leslie Callahan, delivered at Christianity and White Supremacy: Heresy and Hope conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2019).
"Performing Rehearsal," delivered at Sermon: Text and Performance, Conference on Sermon Studies, Marshall University, Huntington, WV (2017).
"Performing Church," three keynote lectures delivered at Winter Refresher, St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon, Saskatechewan (2016).
"Training for Ecstasy," presented at the Logos Workshop in Philosophical Theology at the Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (2015).
"Performing Epistemologies of Resistance," delivered in the Alternative Epistemologies series at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL (2013).
"In Praise of Empty Churches," plenary address delivered at Theatrical Theology: Conversations on Performing the Faith, conference of the Institute of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, St. Andrew's, Scotland (21012).
"Narrative, Performance, and Power: Sacraments in Global Settings," delivered at the Catholic Theological Society of American Annual Convention, St. Louis, MO (2012).
"Disembodied Knowledge as Bodily Practice," delivered at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2011).
"Performing Church: Ignatius, Stanislavski, and Christian Formation," delivered at Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC (2010).
"Embodied Performance and Christian Formation: Ignatius of Loyola Meets Constantin Stanislavski, " delivered at the Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Oxford (2010).
"Embodied Learning: Using Theater Exercises in Theology Class," delivered at the Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Oxford (2010).
"Kairos in the Chronos," Prophetic Calls in Contemporary Culture," delivered at the Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH (2010).
"The Empty Church: A Theatrical and Theological Case for Ritual Iconoclasm," delivered at the Troubling Images conference at Yale University, New Haven, CT (2010).
"Feminist Theology as Epistemic Violence, or In Praise of Girlfights," delivered at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2006).
"Empowering the Truth," delivered at the Quaker Theological Discussion Group, Washington, DC (2006).
"Theology as Performance: A Broad Vision for Theology within Religion Studies," delivered at Theology and Religious Studies or Theology vs. Religious Studies? conference, St. Anne's College, Oxford University (2006).
"Interdisciplinary Theology: Bridging the Theology/Religious Studies Divide," delivered at Theology and Religious Studies or Theology vs. Religious Studies? conference, St. Anne's College, Oxford University (2006).
"Silence and Power in Contemporary God-Talk," delivered at Amherst College, Amherst, MA (2004).
"Writing the Female Body: Quaker Autobiography as Theological Disruption," delivered at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto (2002).
"Subtle Silence: Rahnerian Resources for Feminist Theology," delivered at Yale University, New Have, CT (2001).
"Derrida and Silence: address of a Friend whose sex is specified," delivered at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN (2000).
"Resistance is Futile (Star Trek: First Contact): the Consumption of Otherness in the Computer Era," with Madhuri Yadlapati, delivered at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (1997).