Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is a scholar of religion, philosophy, science studies, and gender studies.[1] At Wesleyan University, she is Professor of Religion, Science in Society, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.[2] From 2014 to 2019, she was co-chair of the Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.

Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Born1977 (age 43–44)
United States
Alma mater
Main interests
Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Continental Philosophy, Postmodern Theology

Education

Rubenstein earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and English (summa cum laude) at Williams College in 1999. With the support of a Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship, she studied philosophical theology at the University of Cambridge, where she earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in 2000 and an MPhil in 2001. She was granted a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship to pursue doctoral work at Columbia University, where she received a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion in 2006.

Career

From 2005 to 2006, Rubenstein was Scholar-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In 2006, she earned Columbia University's Core Curriculum Award for Graduate Teaching and served as the Doctoral Commencement Speaker. Rubenstein was appointed Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University in 2006, Associate Professor in 2011, and Professor in 2014. She won the Wesleyan Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2017.[3]

Research

Rubenstein's research uncovers the mythological and theological legacies of contemporary philosophy and science.[4] While her early work investigated the disavowal of wonder in phenomenology[5][6] and deconstruction,[7] her more recent writing has moved into the metaphysical underpinnings of cosmology,[8] astronomy and aeronautics,[9] general relativity and quantum mechanics,[10] and non-linear biology and ecology.[11]

Publications

Rubenstein has also published numerous articles, chapters, and interviews.[12]

Personal life

Rubenstein has a partner, two children, and a wide extended family of relatives and friends.[13] She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

References
  1. http://www.maryjanerubenstein.com
  2. https://mrubenstein.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
  3. https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2017/05/28/finn-rubenstein-roberts-honored-with-binswanger-prizes/
  4. Bradley Onishi, The Sacrality of the Secular: Postmodern Philosophy of Religion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), 195-199. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/onis18392
  5. Peter Capretto, “The Wonder and Spirit of Phenomenology and Theology: Rubenstein and Derrida on Heidegger’s Formal Distinction of Philosophy from Theology,” Heathrop Journal 55:4 (2014): 599-611. https://ctw-wu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CTW_WU/g4oi9o/cdi_proquest_journals_1525757629
  6. Mary-Jane Rubenstein, “One Way Up Through the Way Back Into the Out of Ontotheology,” In Theory Lecture Series, Wesleyan University (January 16, 2013), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YqDU1W1jk4&t=2s
  7. Catherine Keller, Review of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe, Modern Theology 26:2 (2010): 308-11. https://ctw-wu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CTW_WU/g4oi9o/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A220887826
  8. Symposium on Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s Worlds Without End, Syndicate (April 1, 2016) https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/worlds-without-end/
  9. “The Ethics of Colonizing Space,” Vlad Smolkin interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Critical Path Method (November 30, 2020), https://cpmprogram.com/podcast
  10. “Sacred Matter,” Erik Davis interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Expanding Mind https://www.stitcher.com/show/expanding-mind/episode/expanding-mind-sacred-matter-60737600
  11. “Multiverses, Pantheism, and Ecology,” an interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Institute of Art and Ideas (July 14, 2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDVEJ73WZbE
  12. http://mrubenstein.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
  13. Mary-Jane Rubenstein, “On Almost Breastfeeding My Mother,” Avidly, Los Angeles Review of Books (December 8, 2020): https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2020/12/08/on-almost-breastfeeding-my-mother/
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