Westar Institute

Brandy Daniels is an Assistant Professor in Theology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Portland. Standing at the intersections of constructive and political theologies, social ethics, and feminist and queer theories, her scholarship explores the place of difference within communal identity and belonging, focusing on gender and sexual difference in religious thought and practice. Brandy has published on topics ranging from Bonhoeffer and Foucault on racial identity, to poststructuralism and liberation theology, to Eastern Orthodox apophatic theology and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Her current research project, a book manuscript entitled How (Not) to be Christian explores the ways in which accounts and practices of formation in modern Christianity, particularly within feminist theologies, impact gender and sexual difference. Daniels is ordained with the Disciples of Christ (Christian Church), is a proud pet parent of a wonderful pup, Karl(y) Barx, and is an avid homebrewer and slow runner.