Faculty Profiles

Julia Feder, PhD

Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology

135 Madeleva Hall

jfeder@saintmarys.edu

Education

Areas of Expertise

Research Interests

Creative and Scholarly Work

Incarnating Grace: A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma, New York: Fordham University Press, 2024.
Co-authored with Rebecca K. Murray and Heather Fryer, “Missing Incidents and Masking Scandals: How Swiss Cheese Organization and Neutralization Techniques Help Religious Orders Blunt the Effects of Clergy Sexual Abuse,” Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion: From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in The Catholic Church, vol. 16, edited by Céline Béraud and Giuseppe Giordan. Forthcoming, 2025.
“Edward Schillebeeckx,” T&T Clark Handbook of Modern Theology, edited by Philip G. Ziegler. Forthcoming, 2025.
“Theological Themes,” T&T Clark Reader in Edward Schillebeeckx, edited Stephan van Erp and Daniel Minch (T&T Clark, 2023).
Co-authored with Elizabeth Groppe, “The Violated Body of Christ and the Voices of Young Catholic Women: A Call to Ecclesial Action,” Horizons, vol. 49, issue 2 (October 2022): 305-332.
“Sexual Trauma, the Production of Women, and the Academy,” in College Theology Society Annual Volume, The Human in an Inhuman World, vol. 67, edited by Jessica Coblentz and Daniel P. Horan (2021): 107-11.
“Mary, Model of Eschatological Faith,” T&T Clark Companion to Edward Schillebeeckx, edited by Stephan van Erp and Daniel Minch (T&T Clark, 2019).

Professional Memberships