Professor Kathryn Reklis
Fordham University

Dr. Kathryn Reklis is Associate Professor of Modern Protestant Theology and Co-Director of the Comparative Literature program at Fordham University. Most of her research projects explore different ways Christian theologians and ordinary Christians appeal to and understand beauty, art, and embodied experience as a salve against the ills of modernity – whether those are understood as scientific rationalism, the iron cage of bureaucratic life, or the devastations of colonialism, racism, and patriarchy – even as Christian theology is complicit in funding many of these modern realities. She is the author of Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination: Jonathan Edwards and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Editor, together with Sarah Covington, of Protestant Art and Aesthetics (Routledge, 2020). She writes a monthly Screentime column on film, television, and other screened art for The Christian Century. She is currently writing a spiritual and cultural biography of the literary work of American author Shirley Jackson and she is working on a project that explores the links between Christian theology, moral decision making, and climate action in partnership with the Social and Moral Cognition Lab at Columbia Univeristy.