Deborah Whitehead

Contact Information

• Humanities 274
• 303 492 7649
• deborah.whitehead@colorado.edu

Primary Teaching Areas and Opportunities for Student Supervision

• Feminist and gender studies in religion
• Religions in the U.S.
• Christianity and culture
• Philosophy of religion, esp. 19 th century-present
• Contemporary Christian theology

  Courses

• RLST 2500 Religions in the U.S.
• RLST 3000 Christian Traditions
• Seminar: Christianity and Culture
• Seminar: Religion and the American Pragmatist Tradition
• Seminar: Gender and Religion
  
  Publications:

• “Reading the Religious Romance:  Sexuality, Spirituality, and Motherhood in the
  Bible and Today."  With Mark Roncace.  In _Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommy
  Dearest: Mother/Daughter, Mother/Son Relationships in the Bible_,  _Semeia
  Studies_ (forthcoming).
  
  Overview:
  

A native Floridian, Deborah Whitehead received her BA degree in philosophy and religion and her MA degree in religious studies from Florida State University, where she developed a critical and constructive interest in the intersections of the traditions of American pragmatism, feminist and gender studies, and critical theory.  She pursued these interests in her doctoral work at Harvard Divinity School, culminating in her dissertation "A Mediating Way of Thinking: Gender, Rhetoric, and Religion in the American Pragmatist Tradition."  She received her doctorate in 2006 and began teaching at CU in January 2007.   Her current research interests center around connections between philosophical, cultural, and religious discourses in the U.S., and on gender in the contemporary evangelical Christian movement.