Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Victoria Rubenstein, Keynote Speaker
One highlight of this year’s Symposium is the keynote speaker, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor and Chair of Religion, Affiliated Faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Professor of Science in Society at Wesleyan University. Prof. Rubenstein’s research interests include continental philosophy, theology, gender and sexuality studies, science and religion, pantheism, and the history and philosophy of cosmology. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (2009) and Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (2014, both with Columbia University Press), and co-editor with Catherine Keller of Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, and New Materialisms (Fordham, 2017). Her latest book, hot off the press, is entitled Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia, 2018).