Brandy Daniels

Professor of Theology and Gender | University of Portland

Brandy Daniels is an Assistant Professor of Theology and of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. 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 explores the ways accounts and practices of formation in modern Christianity, particularly within feminist theologies, impact gender and sexual difference. Brandy serves as the co-chair of the Queer Studies in Religion unit of the American Academy of Religion, as co-chair of the LGBTQ working group and the Women’s Caucus of the Society of Christian Ethics, as member on the executive committee of the Political Theology Network, and she is an ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).