{"id":11624,"date":"2024-08-21T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11624"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:06:24","slug":"11624","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/11624\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-markjs=\"true\">Siobhan<\/span> <span data-markjs=\"true\">Kelly<\/span> is a scholar and theorist of trans studies and the study of religion. Currently a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University, <span data-markjs=\"true\">Siobhan<\/span> defended their dissertation, \u201cPublic Parts: Psychoanalysis, the Study of Religion, and Trans Subjectivity,\u201d at Harvard University in August of 2024 and will receive their PhD in November. <span data-markjs=\"true\">Siobhan<\/span>\u2019s scholarship looks at the relationship between religious rhetoric, transphobia in feminist theory, trans studies, and broader popular discourses of gender, sexuality, and transition. Their work has appeared in\u00a0<em>Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Theology &amp; Sexuality<\/em>, and is forthcoming in\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Academy of Religion\u00a0<\/em>and the edited collection\u00a0<em>Political Theology Reimagined: Theories, Ruptures, Itineraries\u00a0<\/em>(Duke University Press). <span data-markjs=\"true\">Siobhan<\/span> is interested in trans, queer, and feminist theory; psychoanalysis and deconstruction; theories and methods in the study of religion; how religious language is used to both defend and assail queer and trans life; and 20<sup>th<\/sup>and 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century queer and trans art, film, and literature.<\/p>\n<p><span>At BU, Siobhan is working on two book projects that come out of their dissertation. The first,\u00a0<\/span><em>Public Parts: Fetishism and Genitality<\/em><span>, looks at flashpoints in the sprawling discourses of \u201cfetishism\u201d and the recurrent appearance of genitals therein in order to articulate a generalized theory of genitality and genital envy. The second,\u00a0<\/span><em>Trans Antagonism: On Engaging Transphobia, or Not<\/em><span>, looks at how we read and understand transphobia within feminist thinking, pursuing what might happen if we allow ourselves to treat such irruptions of phobia antagonistically. Tracking feminist transphobia from its earlier iterations\u2014including in the study of religion through the works of Mary Daly and Janice Raymond\u2014through to more recent TERF nonsense in France, the UK, and the US, this project asks what bitterness, anger, and rage have to offer trans theorizing. In Spring of 2025 Siobhan will offer CAS RN 453 &#8220;Topics in Religion and Sexuality: Queer and Trans Religion,\u201d in which students\u00a0<\/span>will use religious studies and queer and trans studies to analyze fiction, film, and poetry that explores the relationships between gender, sexuality, and religion, and\u00a0which they promise will be both fun\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>weird.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22101,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11679,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11624\/revisions\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}