Mayra Rivera Rivera
On Leave
- Academic year 2011-12
Education
- BS ChE, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
- MTS, PhD, Drew University
Profile
Mayra Rivera Rivera joined the HDS faculty in July 2010 as Assistant Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Theology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She also mentored doctoral students of the Graduate Theological Union, a consortium of graduate theological seminaries and centers located in the San Francisco Bay area. Her transdisciplinary work in critical theological studies engages key Christian themes in relation to current theory and philosopy—especially in feminist, postcolonial, and Latina studies. Her book The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God (2007) explores the relationship between models of divine otherness and ideas about interhuman difference. She is also co-editor, with Stephen Moore, of Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology (2010) and, with Catherine Keller and Michael Nausner, of Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire (2004). She is currently writing a book that explores the connections between theological and philosophical metaphors of body and flesh.
Current and Future Courses
- Gender, Race, and Transformation Latina Theory (Spring 2013)
- Levinas and His Readers (Fall 2013)
- Memory in Postmodern and Postcolonial Theory (Fall 2013)
- Philosophies of Wonder (Spring 2014)
- Religion in Black and Brown: African American and Latino/a Theories (Fall 2012)
- Spirits in Latina Literature (Spring 2014)
- The Body in Contemporary Theory (Fall 2012)
- Theopoetics and Poethics (Spring 2013)
Selected Publications
- Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology (Fordham University, 2010) Publisher page
- The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) Publisher page
- Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire (Chalice Press, 2004) Publisher page
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