We're delighted to be welcoming Dr. Linn Tonstad to College and the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies. Dr. Tonstad is Professor of Theology, Religion, and Sexuality at Yale University/Yale Divinity School and one of the leading voices in contemporary queer theology.
On Wednesday 12th March, 6:30pm in Room G.16 of the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies Building, the following lecture is open to all. "On How Hard It is to Love the Flesh."
In this special lecture, Prof. Tonstad will explore the intersections of queer theory and contemporary theology, detailing her current work on a kind of "theory of queer theology" that interprets it as a way of dealing with how hard it is to love the flesh and emphasises queer theory's pandemic origins.
Professor Tonstad is a constructive theologian working at the intersection of Christian theology with feminist and queer theory. Her first book, God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude was published by Routledge in 2016 and was named both as a best new book in ethics and a best new book in theology in The Christian Century in the spring of 2017. Her second book, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics was published by Cascade in 2018 and translated into French in 2022. She joined the Yale Divinity School faculty in 2012.