Randi Warne

Coordinator of the Graduate Women and Gender Studies program, Mount Saint Vincent University

Gender theory, Knowledge production, Religion, Gender and religion, Politics, North American cultural history, Social reform movements, Popular culture

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Biography

Dr. Warne is an interdisciplinary scholar who has published internationally on gender theory, the material, and ideological conditions of knowledge production in the academy, and method and theory in the study of religion. Her ongoing interests include politics, gender and religion; North American cultural history, including social reform movements; and material and popular culture. She is currently supervising two theses, one on feminist performance art and disability, and another on the construction of madness in women's life stages.

Warne is the Coordinator of the Graduate Women and Gender Studies program, and also serves as Coordinator, and teaches core courses in the undergraduate Cultural Studies Program.

She is the author of several publications, including: “Liminal Contradictions”. Invited critical response to Arnal and McCutcheon, The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion”. Oxford, 2013 for Method and Theory in the Study of Religion and "Making the Gender-Critical Turn”, Secular Theories on Religion. Jensen and Rotstein (eds,) Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000.

Expertise

  • Gender theory
  • Knowledge production
  • Religion
  • Gender and religion
  • Politics
  • North American cultural history
  • Social reform movements
  • Popular culture