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Meredith Minister is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Shenandoah University, specializing in trauma-informed pedagogy, religious ethics, and cultural approaches to studying religion. She grew up on a dairy farm in Western Kentucky and has experienced stage IV colon cancer at 33. Her scholarly work includes authoring Rape Culture on Campus (Lexington, 2018) and Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations: God Embodied (Palgrave, 2014), as well as coediting Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion and The Bloomsbury Reader in Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion (both Bloomsbury, 2018). She is collaborating with Rhiannon Graybill and Beatrice Lawrence on the forthcoming edited volume Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements (Lexington). Her research explores intersections of futurity, death, and speculative insights from alien narratives.
Professor Minister contributes to the Wabash Center's blog series on teaching and traumatic events, emphasizing laughter in discussions of death, setting expectations for traumatized students, and transforming personal trauma into cultural critique. Her work challenges systemic privileges in academia and advocates for inclusive pedagogies that address power dynamics, colonial practices, and emotional labor in theological education.
