QTR: the editors
Dr. Melissa Wilcox
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Melissa M. Wilcox is Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where Dr. Wilcox organizes the annual UCR Conference on Queer and Transgender Studies in religion and the Holstein Dissertation Fellowship. A specialist in the study of gender, sexuality, and religion in the Global North/Global West, Dr. Wilcox has authored or edited seven books, including most recently Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody; Queer Religiosities: An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion; and (with Nina Hoel and Liz Wilson) Religion, the Body, and Sexuality. Dr. Wilcox is co-editor with Ashon T. Crawley and Tamara C. Ho of the Hauntings book series at New York University Press and founding co-editor with Joseph A. Marchal of the forthcoming new journal, QTR: A Journal of Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion. Dr. Wilcox’s current research is on spirituality in queer and trans leather, BDSM, and kink communities.
Dr. Joseph Marchal
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Joseph A. Marchal is Professor of Religious Studies and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Ball State University. A biblical scholar focused on a range of critical theories of interpretation and histories of reception, Dr. Marchal has authored, edited, or co-edited ten books, including most recently: Appalling Bodies: Queer Figures Before and After Paul’s Letters (2020; paperback in 2022); After the Corinthian Women Prophets: Reimagining Rhetoric and Power (2021); Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (2019); and Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (2017). Dr. Marchal currently serves as chair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s first-ever Committee for LGBTIQ+ Scholars and Scholarship and founding co-editor with Melissa W. Wilcox of the forthcoming new journal, QTR: A Journal of Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion. Dr. Marchal’s current research projects include: a re-examination of affects and the assembly communities that sparked and received Paul’s letters; trans biblical interpretation; sexualized labor and racialized stigma; an experimental, interdisciplinary commentary on Galatians; as well as the politics of respectability in relation to intersectional, coalitional approaches to hermeneutics.