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Dr. Nicole Graham is a Lecturer in Ethics and Values at King's College London, affiliated with the Department of Theology & Religious Studies within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She holds a PhD from the University of Kent (2021) and previously served as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent and Online Tutor at the University of Edinburgh. Her work challenges the 'seriousness fallacy' in theological scholarship by exploring humor's role in religious thought, particularly through a feminist lens.
Education: BA in Religious Studies (University of Kent, 2007); MA in Theology (University of Exeter, 2011); PhD in Theology (University of Kent, 2021) with a thesis on laughter as insight.
Research focuses on humor's ethical and religious significance, including feminist reinterpretations of religious laughter, comedy's role in shifting worldviews, and the intersections of gender, satire, and religious identity. She co-edited Messy Methods in Researching Religion (2024) and authored Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies (2024). Her work appears in journals like Humor: International Journal of Humor Studies and Sociology of Religion.
Teaching: Undergraduate/postgraduate modules on ethics and values in theology. She supervises PhD students in humor/religion intersections, ethics, gender, and blasphemy.
Public Engagement: Media Officer for the Humour and Religion Network. Active in public education through King's Centre for Arts and the Sacred (ASK), exploring religion's role in the arts.
