ELIZABETH L. ANTUS CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 Updated October ELIZABETH L. ANTUS CURRICULUM VITAE Boston College Department of Theology 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA antuse@bc.edu Office Location: Stokes 416N EDUCATION DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2015 University of Notre Dame Dissertation: The Doors of the Soul: A Critical Augustinian Account of Self-Love Area: Systematic Theology Director: Mary Catherine Hilkert MASTER OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES 2008 University of Notre Dame Area: Systematic Theology BACHELOR OF ARTS, Summa Cum Laude 2006 University of Virginia Majors: Religious Studies and English PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE Boston College Department of Theology 2017 present ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TENURE TRACK) John Carroll University Department of Theology and Religious Studies PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS Was it Good for You? Recasting Catholic Sexual Ethics in Light of Women s Sexual Pain Disorders [forthcoming in December 2018 for Journal of Religious Ethics; winner of the CTSA s 2018 LaCugna Award]

2 Updated October Transformations of the Flesh: Approaching the Spiritual Body through an Engagement with Sarah Coakley. The Journal of Religion, Identity, and Politics 1 (January 2012): BOOK CHAPTERS Our Fragile Flesh: Sacramental Hospitality toward Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Its Implications for Theology. Visions of Hope: Emerging Theologians Envision the Future of the Church. Ed. Kevin J. Ahern (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2013), INVITED ARTICLES Disability at the Heart of Theology: On Marginality, Method, and Overcoming Best-Case Anthropologies. The Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 17.3 (2013): EDITOR-REVIEWED ARTICLES To Love Oneself Through Food: Geneen Roth and a Christian Resistance to Compulsive Eating. The Other Journal 19 (September 2011). BOOK REVIEWS Flourishing: Health, Disease, and Bioethics in Theological Perspective, by Neil Messer. The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 37.1 (Spring/Summer 2017): Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology, by Thomas Rausch. Catholic Books Review (July 2012). Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text, edited by Darlene Bird and Yvonne Sherwood. Theology & Sexuality 18.1 (2012): MISCELLANEOUS SHORTER PUBLICATIONS Theology, Sexuality, and Justice (Interest Group) Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America Vol. 73 (2018). Anthropology (Topic Session) Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America Vol. 72 (2017). Failures in Sexual Justice: Catholic Feminist Responses and Recommendations (Selected Session) Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America Vol. 71 (2016). MONOGRAPHS WORKS IN PROGRESS Steady My Soul: An Augustinian Feminist Account of Self-Love [fully drafted; proposal well received; currently being revised for full review at Notre Dame Press]

3 Updated October Catholic Approaches to Marriage: An Introduction [under contract with Bloomsbury/T&T Clark] ARTICLES The Silence of the Dead : Depressive Suicide and the Moral Responsibility of Memory [under review] BOOK CHAPTERS Good Sex as a Non-Negotiable in Twenty-First-Century Catholic Marriages: Feminist Theological Contributions. Love, Sex, and Families: Catholic Perspectives. Eds. Julie Hanlon Rubio and Jason King. Forthcoming with Liturgical Press, PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Catholic Theological Anthropology After #Metoo: Charting a New September 2019 Course in Systematic Theology Invited Presentation for The Future of Systematic Theology: Traditions, Politics, and Possibilities Fairfield, Connecticut, United States It Was Simply the End of What I Could Bear : Using Psychology in a March 2019 Metzian Frame for a Better Christian Response to Suicide For Psyche, Soul, and Salvation: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Intersection of Psychology and Contemporary Christian Theology Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States The Enduring Legacy of Sexual Racism: #MeToo s Complicity in the November 2018 Silencing of Black Women s Sexual Traumas American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Co-Sponsored Session between the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit and the Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit) Denver, Colorado, United States The Silence of the Dead : Depressive Suicide and the Eclipse of Grace and June 2018 Freedom Catholic Theological Society of America (Selected Session entitled Grace at Work in the World? The Problems of Depression and Depressive Suicide ) Other panelist: Jessica Coblentz (St. Mary s College of California) Respondent: Paul Crowley (Santa Clara University) Indianapolis, Indiana, United States What Makes 'Good Sex' for Women?: Female Sexual Disorders as Disruptions June 2016 to Sexual Unity and Test Cases for Rethinking Catholic Theologies of Marriage

4 Updated October Catholic Theological Society of America (Selected Session entitled Failures in Sexual Justice: Catholic Feminist Responses and Recommendations ) Other panelists: Cristina Traina (Northwestern University) and Megan K. McCabe (Boston College) San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States Depressive Suicide: Paradox of Agency and Passivity, Provocation for an January 2016 Ethics of Response Society of Christian Ethics (Concurrent Session) Toronto, Canada Body as Disruption: Intellectual Disabilities, Butlerian Ethics, and November 2015 Dismantling the Christian Regime of the Ableist Body Annual American Academy of Religion (Religion and Disability Studies Group) Atlanta, Georgia, United States Why Batter My Worthless Heart? : How Toxic Shame Disrupts Sarah June 2014 Coakley s Account of Spiritual Vulnerability Catholic Theological Society of America (Spirituality Session) San Diego, California, United States Disrupting the Idealized Body: Intellectual Disability, Postmodern Ethics September 2012 and the Christian Flesh Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (Concurrent Session) Cambridge, England, United Kingdom Friendship Translated: Engaging with Hans Reinders and Cultivating June 2012 Deeper Social Recognition of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities College Theology Society Conference (Justice and Peace Section) San Antonio, Texas, United States Our Fragile Flesh: Sacramental Hospitality Toward Persons with March 2012 Intellectual Disabilities and Its Implications for Theology Emerging Theologians Conference (Concurrent Session) Boston College, Massachusetts, United States Can Women Relinquish the Weight of Weight Obsession? A Christian January 2012 Articulation of Women s Resistance to Food Compulsion in the United States Food Networks Conference (Body/Image Section) Notre Dame, Indiana, United States Transforming Women s Eating Practices: Christian Resistance to the June 2011 Regime of Thinness

5 Updated October College Theology Society Conference (Women and Religion Section) New Rochelle, New York, United States Your best thing : Theological Explorations of a Woman s Love of Self in March 2010 Toni Morrison s Beloved Midwest American Academy of Religion Conference (Concurrent Session) Rock Island, Illinois, United States How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? March 2010 (1 Cor. 15:35): Approaching the Spiritual Body through the Thought of Sarah Coakley Midwest American Academy of Religion Conference (Concurrent Session) Rock Island, Illinois, United States St. Edith Stein: What Kind of Jewish-Catholic Symbol? March 2008 Engaging Particularities Conference Boston College, Massachusetts, United States DEPARTMENT & CAMPUS TALKS Christian Theology and the Problem of the Impoverished Self October 2018 Advanced Seminar in Philosophy and Theology Boston College, Boston, United States Dialogues on the Monologues February 2018 Faculty panel sponsored by Women and Gender Studies on The Vagina Monologues Boston College, Boston, United States (De-)Constructing an Account of the Self: Narrativity and Self-Opacity as April 2012 Resources for Contemporary Ethics in Alasdair MacIntyre and Judith Butler Gender Studies Research Workshop Series Notre Dame, Indiana, United States What Can Thomas Learn from Flannery? September 2007 MTS Colloquium Notre Dame, Indiana, United States AWARDS & HONORS Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for Best Essay in Catholic Theology 2018 by a New Scholar (Catholic Theological Society of America) Presidential Fellowship for the Ph.D., Notre Dame Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Notre Dame 2013 Fully-funded invitation from Michael Signer to a Jewish-Christian 2007

6 Updated October dialogue conference in Lublin, Poland Full tuition scholarship for the M.T.S., Notre Dame Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia 2005 RESEARCH & TRAVEL GRANTS Professional Development Grant, Notre Dame, Department of Theology Catholic Theology Society of America Convention Scholarship 2012; 2014 Notebaert Professional Development Grant, Notre Dame, Graduate School 2012 Conference Presentation Grant, Notre Dame, Graduate Student Union 2012 TEACHING & ADVISING COURSES TAUGHT AT BOSTON COLLEGE (FULL TIME: 2017 present) Undergraduate Courses: PULSE: Person and Social Responsibility I and II COURSES TAUGHT AT JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY Master s Courses: Introduction to Systematic Theology 2016; 2017 Undergraduate Courses: Christian Sexuality 2017 Introduction to Theology & Religious Studies 2015; 2016 Contemporary Catholic Theology 2015; 2016 ADVISING AT JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY Master s students: Undergraduate students (senior thesis advising): COURSES TAUGHT AT BOSTON COLLEGE (PART TIME: ) Undergraduate Core Courses: Exploring Catholicism I & II ; COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Undergraduate Core Course: Women, Gender, and Theology 2012

7 Updated October WORK AS A TEACHING ASSISTANT AT NOTRE DAME As Graduate Assistant for Mary Catherine Hilkert: Feminist and Multicultural Theologies 2010 Christian Anthropology 2010 Jesus and Salvation 2009 As Teaching Assistant for Richard McBrien: Catholicism 2007 SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY, & ACADEMY Committee Work & Other Involvement at Boston College Member of the Department Curriculum Committee Committee Work & Other Involvement at John Carroll University Chair of Search Committee for Departmental Hire (Tenure Track) 2016 Member of Graduate Committee for Department Faculty Advisor for Student Multicultural Club Membership in Professional Academic Societies American Academy of Religion Catholic Theological Society of America College Theology Society Society of Christian Ethics New Voices Seminar 2008 present 2011 present 2009 present 2015 present 2018 present Committees within Professional Academic Societies Co-Convener of Sexual Justice Interest Group (Catholic Theological Society of America) Co-Convener of Women s Consultation (Catholic Theological Society of America) Member of Admissions Committee (Catholic Theological Society of America) Member of Anthropology Administrative Team (Catholic Theological Society of America) Peer Review Referee Work Modern Theology (1 article) Horizons (2 articles) Irish Theological Quarterly (1 article) 2016 present 2016 present 2018 present

8 Updated October Committee Work at the University of Notre Dame President of the Graduate Theological Society Gender Concerns Representative for the Graduate Theological Society LANGUAGE SKILLS German, Latin, French, Spanish: proficient in reading