Dr. Claudia Schippert

Department of Philosophy

University of Central Florida

Orlando, FL 32816-1352

(407) 823-4624

claudiaschippert@gmail.com

                                                                     

EDUCATION

 

Ph. D.                          Religion, Temple University, 2001 (with distinctions)

Graduate Certificate   Women’s Studies, Temple University, 2000

M. A.                           Religion, Temple University, 1993

B. A.                                       Theology, University of Hamburg, Germany, 1991

 

POSITIONS

2007- Present              Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of Religious Studies
                                    University of Central Florida (UCF)

2007-2009                   Faculty Fellow, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, UCF

2001-2007                   Assistant Professor of Humanities and Director of Religious Studies, UCF
2000 - 2001                 Part Time Faculty in Religion and Women’s Studies, Temple University

1999 - 2000                 Adjunct Assistant Professor in Religion, Lehigh University

1993 - 1999                 Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Religion & Women’s Studies, Temple Univ.

1997                            Adjunct Faculty in Religious Studies, Luther College, Decorah, IA

1994                            Instructor in Religion, Lehigh University

1993 - 1994                 Instructor in Religious Studies, Rutgers University at Camden, NJ

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Introduction” to co- edited special volume “Queer Pedagogy in Religious Studies,” Bulletinfor the Study of Religion (forthcoming, 2010).

 

“My Queer Career,” Religious Studies News (March, 2010)

 

“Queer Theory. Ein Gespräch zwischen Theorie  und Praxis“ (Queer Theory: A Conversation between Theory and Praxis). In Theologie und Geschlecht. Dialoge Querbeet (Theology and Gender: Dialogues Across the Field) Heike Walz, David Plüss, Hrsg (eds). LIT Verlag, Münster, Germany, 2008: 103-115.

“Saint Mychal: A Virtual Saint.” Journal of Media and Religion  (2007): 109-132.

 

“Can Muscles Be Queer? Reconsidering the Transgressive Hyper-Built Body.” Journal of Gender Studies 16.2 (July 2007): 155-171.

“Turning On/To Ethics.” Bodily Citations: Religion and Judith Butler, Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville, eds.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2006: 157-176.

 

“Critical Projection and Queer Performativity: Self-Revelation and Teaching/Learning Otherness.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 28.3/4 (2006): 281-295.

 

“Survival and Rebellion: Recovering Ula Stöckl’s Feminist Film Strategies.” Visual Culture and Gender 1.1 (2006) <http://www.emitto.net/visualculturegender>.

 

“Containing Uncertainty: Sexual Values and Citizenship.” Journal of Homosexuality 52.1/2 (2006): 285-307.  Reprinted in LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain. Karen E. Lovaas, John P. Elia, and Gust A. Yep, eds. Haworth Press, 2006.

 

“Spielerisch Queer.” (Playfully Queer.) FAMA: Feministisch-theologische Zeitschrift (Journal for Feminist Theology) 22.2 (May 2006): 16-17.

 “Queer Theory and the Study of Religion.” Rever [Revista de Estudos da Religião] 5.4 (2005): 90-99. <http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv4_2005>.

 

“Reviewing Gender.” M/C Journal: Media and Culture 8.5 (October 2005) <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0510/10-schippert.php>.

 

“Sporting Heroic Bodies in a Christian Nation at War.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 5 (Fall 2003) <http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art4-heroicbodies.html>.

 

 “Too Much Trouble?” Journal of Theology and Sexuality, Sheffield Academic Press, UK. (September 1999): 44-63.

 

“Queer Theory.” Encyclopedia of Women and World Religions, Serinity Young, ed. New York: Macmillan Press (1998): 825-826.

 “Embodied Power, Queer Sex.” A Rainbow of Religious Studies, Clark, J. Michael and Robert E. Goss, eds. Las Colinas: Monument Press (1996): 103-118.

 

Book Reviews and Notes, and other academic publications:

Review of  Eric C. Schneider’s Smack: Heroin and the American City. The Journal of Popular Culture 43. 3 (May 2010): 664-665.

 

Review of  Susan Ackerman’s When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of  Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. Religious Studies Review 32.4 (October 2006): 257.

 

Review of Anthony B. Pinn and Dwight N. Hopkins, eds. Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74.4 (Winter 2006): 1027-1030.

 

“Queer Theory - Was Ist das Eigentlich? Ein Gespräch mit Claudia Schippert.”(What exactly is Queer Theory? A Conversation with Claudia Schippert.) Evangelisches Tagungs- und Studienzentrum Boldern, Boldernbericht 135 (Mai 2005): 2-3.

OTHER CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

 

Consultant and Speaker, “Requesting Miracles: Votive Practices in Cultural Comparison,” 2009-2010.

 

Consultant and Speaker, “Independent Video Experience: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié,”
guest speaker featured in 14 film clips as part of podcast-video guide tour for museum exhibit, Orlando Museum of Art, August–October 2006 and subsequent traveling exhibit.

 

Conference Presentations (refereed) & INVITED LECTURES

 

“Razorwire Mindfulness: Transforming Teaching MBSR in a Women’s Prison,” with Elizabeth Cohen, Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society: 8th Annual International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators, Worcester, MA, April 2010.

“My Queer Career” Panel Discussion, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November, Montreal, 2009.

“Queer Bodies in Big Love” Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, April 2009.

“Teaching the Holocaust: A Response,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, 2008.

“Queer Bodies in Heroes” Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, March 2008.

“Queering Generational Differences” American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 2007.

“Camping with Miss America: Performing High Femininity.” First Annual Conference for Camp Studies, San Francisco, October 28-29, 2006.

“Bodily Integrity and Agency.” Orlando Regional Healthcare Third Annual Ethics Symposium, “End of Life Decisions: Values to Keep.” (invited) Orlando, April 2006.

“Queer Pedagogy! or, Is Authenticity Overrated?” American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, November 19-22, 2005.

“Becoming Networked: Interacting Ourselves into Being.” Popular Culture Association, San
Diego, March 22-26, 2005.

“Queer Theory – Was ist das Eigentlich?” (What exactly is Queer Theory?) Invited Presentation at Boldern Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, March 2005.

“Virtual Heroes for a New Marketplace.” Conference on ‘Sexuality After Foucault,’ Manchester, England, November 28-30, 2003.

“No Longer Sitting on the Curb.” American Academy of  Religion, Atlanta, November 22-25, 2003.

“Sporting Heroic Bodies in a Christian Nation at War: Fighting the Evil Axis in the Gym.” American Academy of Religion, Toronto, Canada, November 23-26, 2002.

“Female Bodybuilders: Threat, Challenge, and Recuperation.” Meredith College, Raleigh, 2002.

“Repetitions with a Difference: Contextualizing Christian Muscles in the ‘Lord's Gym’.” Southeast Council for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, March 8-10, 2002.

“Un‑Gendering: Why 2 is No Magical Number.” American Academy of Religion, Nashville, November 18-21, 2000.

“Doing Bodies Without Gender.” American Academy of Religion, Nashville, November 18-21, 2000.

 “Disturbing Practices: Is Queer Theory Too Much Trouble for Feminist Ethics?” Invited by Center for Women's Studies and Gender Relations, Frankfurt University, Germany, June 9, 1999.

“Too Much Trouble? Negotiating Feminist and Queer Approaches in Religion.” American Academy of Religion, Orlando, November 21-24, 1998.

“Building Resistant Bodies.” Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, March 21-22, 1997.

“Building Bodies: Transgressive Performances in Religion.” American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November 22-25, 1997.

“Feminist Ethics and Queer Theory.” Invited Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Feminist Ethics Consultation, Boston, October 1996.                          

“Embodied Power, Queer Sex.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, November 18-21, 1995.

 “Histories, Memories, Traditions, Places: Reimagining Identities.” Triregional American Academy of Religion, Boston,  March 30-April 1, 1995.

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

 

College of Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Award, UCF. Category Applied Research and Contract Awards. “Incredibly Female: The Films of Ula Stöckl.” January 2007 ($12,000).

 

Women’s Research Center Award in the Arts and Humanities, UCF, “Performing High Femininity: Dragging Femininity Across Generations.” May 2005 ($1,000).

 

University of Central Florida, Office of Sponsored Research In-House Award. “Heroic Bodies, Gender and the Nation.” May 2003-April 2004 ($7,500). 

 

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar: “Sport, Society, and Modern American Culture.”  June 3-July 12, 2002  ($3,700).

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Religion
American Studies Association

Popular Culture Association

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

 

LANGUAGE COMPETENCY

German (native)
English (near‑native)
French
Biblical Hebrew
Classical Greek
Latin

 

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE    

COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED AT UCF (2001-2008)

    (* indicates courses that I developed, proposed, and that were added to the curriculum)           

        Graduate:            * Theories of Gender Studies
                                    * Theories and Methods of the Humanities

        Undergraduate:               * Bad Taste: High Culture, Low Culture and the Politics of Taste (to be taught)
* Queer Theory in the Humanities
   Sexuality, Gender and Philosophy  
* Religion in America
   World Religions
   Humanistic Traditions I: Prehistory to Renaissance
   Humanistic Traditions II: Renaissance to Postmodernity
   Humanities Portfolio (senior capstone)
* Religious Studies Portfolio (senior capstone)
* Senior Research Seminar
* Spiritual Care Internship (with Orlando Regional Medical Center)

COURSES TAUGHT PREVIOUSLY AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS (1992-2001)
        Introduction to Women's Studies
        Women, Religion and Society
        Feminist and Womanist Ethics
        Racial Justice
        Introduction to Western Religions
        The Holocaust: History and Meaning
        Death and Dying

THESIS SUPERVISION AND INDEPENDENT STUDIES

Committee Chair:

Chantelle Yandow, “Social Justice and the Prison Industrial Complex,” Honors in the Major, Religious Studies (in progress)

 

Sara Nowak, “Gender-transgressive Representations in Contemporary Popular Culture,” Honors in the Major, Humanities (in progress)

 

David Givens, “Declaring Faith, Describing Women: Perceptions and Roles of Women in Early Christian Writings.” Honors in the Major, Religious Studies, 2007.

 

Stephanie Cato, “In Support of Lynn White: Rethinking Christian Theology in Light of the Ecological Crisis.” Honors in the Major, Humanities, 2007.

Seth Walker, “Music as Spirituality.” Honors in the Major, Religious Studies, 2007. 

 

Patsy Holden “The Cultural Practice of Ballroom Dancing: A Religious Studies Perspective.” Honors in the Major, Religious Studies, 2007.

 

Kimberly Beavis, “A Christian Nation? Evaluating the Claims of the Religious Right.” Honors in the Major, Religious Studies, 2005.

Norman A. Palumbo, “‘Practical Sexual Responsibility’ and Self-Control: A Foucaultian Analysis of Contemporary HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs.” Honors in the Major, Philosophy, 2005.

 

Member of Graduate Thesis Committee:

 

Trent Fucci, “Triangle Logic,”  Theater MFA, in progress.

 

David Dixon, “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Religious Experience” MA, Interdisciplinary Studies, in progress.

 

Megan Duesterhaus, “Cross-Gender Interaction in Adolescence”. Ph.D., Sociology, in progress.

 

Jesse Sloan, “The Gendered Altar: Wiccan Concepts of gender and Ritual Objects.” MA, Anthropology, 2008.

 

Victoria Mosher, “Beyond Postmodernism: Theorizing Postfeminist Consequences
   through Popular Female Representation.”  MA, English Literature, 2008.

 

 

Member of Undergraduate Thesis Committee:

 

Sara Williamson, “’Halting But Intimate Confidences’: Sexuality and Homosocial Bonds in Utopian Literature,” Honors in the Major, English, in progress.

 

Kira Ackbarali, “Brecht’s Epic Theatre,” Honors in the Major, Theatre, in progress.

 

Jessica Sison, “Sisterhood in Victorian Literature,” Honors in the Major, English, 2010.

 

Lauren M. Hansbury, “The Transformation of the Godly Family: Negotiations between Essentialist Ideals and Egalitarian Practices among Evangelicals,” Honors in the Major, Religious Studies, 2010.

 

Shainna Ali, “Contemporary Hijra Identity in Guyana as Influencesd by Colonialism, Law, and Religion,” Honors in the Major, Anthropology, 2010.

 

Brittany Broussard, “Don’t Be a Fool - Play the Man: Imperial Masculinity in Victorian Adventure Novels,” Honors in the Major, English, 2008.

 

Jennifer Farmer, “Queering Canterbury.” Honors in the Major, English, 2008.

 

Christina Kopic, “A Gift of Chains” Honors in the Major, English, 2008.

 

John Storm, “The Aesthetics of Surfing Films.” Honors in the Major, Humanities, 2007.

  

Constance MacIntosh, “Mystic Union: A Unitary Theory of The Wife’s Lament and The Husband’s Message.” Honors in the Major, English, 2006.

 

Robert Grassel, “Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Examining Epochal Markers.” Honors in the Major, Art History. First prize, Founder’s Day Award, 2005.

 

Independent Studies Supervised (in addition to Thesis-Projects above):

 

David Dixon, “Approaches to Religious Consciousness.” 2005-2006.

Emily Ruff, “Sexual Ethics and Political Activism.” 2004.


TEACHING AWARDS AND GRANTS

UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Summer Conference
($800, for development of module for improving student writing  prose and style), May 2010.

UCF-Teaching Incentive Program 2006-07 ($5,000 raise to base salary), May 2007.

UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Summer Conference
($1,000,  for development of Information Fluency project), May 2007.

Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida ($2,000), February 2007.

Florida Humanities Council, Mini-Grant, “Divine Revolution in Context: Haitian Religion in the Art of Edouard Duval Carrié.” ($2,000, for support of educational symposium), August 2006.

 

UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Summer Conference
($1,000,  for development of diversity curriculum project), May 2006.

UCF Interactive Distributed Learning for Technology-Mediated Course Delivery (IDL 6543)
($2,000, for development of media enhanced courses), Fall 2004.

     

UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Summer Conference.
($800,  for development of women’s studies courses at regional campuses),  May 2003.

 

UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Winter Institute: Curriculum Transformation  ($500, for development of Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Studies Courses),
December 2002.

 

UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Summer Conference
($1,000, for course transformation, integrating peer review and collaborative learning in General Education Humanities Courses),  May 2002.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

International:

Consultant, Netzwerk Geschlechterbewusste Theologie (Network for Gender Conscious Theology in German-speaking European Countries), 2004-2008.

National:

Co-Chair, “Queer Theory and LGBT Studies and Religion Consultation,” American Academy of Religion, 2007-present. 

Editorial Advisory Board Member and Referee, The Journal of Popular Culture, 2007-present.

Referee, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 2003-present

Referee and Manuscript reviewer , Oxford University Press, 2005-present.

National Steering Committee and Referee, “Queer Theory and LGBT Studies and Religion Consultation,” American Academy of Religion, 2005-present. 

Referee, Body and Society, 2003.

National Steering Committee and Referee, “Religion and the Social Sciences,” American Academy of Religion, 1998-2004.

Regional:

Consultant, Florida Humanities Council, Focus Group on Humanities Research, August 2007.

Member at Large, Southeast Council for the Study of Religion, 2002-2004.

Program Committee and Web Site, Northeast Feminist Ethics Consultation, 1997-2002.   

 

UCF UNIVERSITY SERVICE

United Faculty of Florida- UCF Chapter:

Chair, Contract Enforcement Committee 2008-2010.

Grievance Representative, 2007-present.

Senator, 2008-2010.

Campus-Wide Service:

Reviewer, UCF Undergraduate Research Journal, 2009-present

Board of Directors, UCF Allies Program, 2002-present.

Co-Founder and Co-Coordinator, Orlando Queer Academics, 2001-present.

College of Arts and Humanities:

CAH Curriculum and Standards Committee, 2009-present.

CAH Representative to the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, 2007-2009.

Program and Site Coordinator, “Sacred Text, Sacred Film? Responsible Interpretation of Scriptures in Film and Media,” 2005.

Women’s Studies Program Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2002-present.

Women’s Studies Program Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2002-2004.

Humanities Representative for CAS IE Assessment, GEP, 2002-2003.

Department of Philosophy:

Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2007-present (Chair 2008-2009).

Director, Religious Studies Program and Chair, Religious Studies Curriculum Committee, 2002-2010.

Chair, Religious Studies Program Assessment Committee, 2007-2010.

Member, Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2007-2010.

GEP Assessment, REL2300 component, 2005-2010.

Moderator, RELNEWS, listserv distributing information about events related to the academic study of religion at UCF, 2004-present.

Planning Committee for Annual Ethics Symposium, Orlando Regional Health Center and UCF Department of  Philosophy, 2006-2009.

Supervision of Spiritual Care Internships at ORHC, 2007-2010

Majors and Brochure Committee, 2003-present.

Humanities Curriculum Committee, 2001-present.
Intern and TA Committee, 2005-present.
Assessment Committee, 2005-2007

Workshop Moderator at Fourth Annual Ethics Symposium, Orlando Regional Health Center and UCF    Department of Philosophy, 2008. 

Workshop Moderator at Third Annual Ethics Symposium, Orlando Regional Health Center and UCF
    Department of Philosophy, May 2007. 

Moderator and Panelist, “Politics of the Heart: Recognition of Homoparental Families. A film by Nancy Nicol,” a panel at “Heresy, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression: An International, Multi-
   Disciplinary Conference on Information Fluency, Critical Thinking &Ethics.” Orlando, 2007.

Grant Writer and Program Coordinator for Symposium “Divine Revolution in Context: Haitian Religion and the Art of Edouard Duval Carrié,” 2006.

Humanities Institutional Effectiveness, 2002-2006.

Search Committee, Instructor for Humanities, 2006-2007.

Search Committee, Instructor for Humanities and Religion, 2005.

Member, Steering Committee, Templeton Grant Committee, 2004.

Search Committee, Associate Professor of Humanities, 2002-2003.

Web master for UCF Religious Studies Website, 2002-2004.

Committee for Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Humanities, 2002-2003.

Search Committee, Instructor of Humanities, 2001-2002.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Instructor, MBSR Program at Lowell Correctional Institution, January 2007- December 2009.
Teach 8 week program in Mind-Body Stress Reduction followed by a 5 day retreat, offered four times per year, two classes taught each cycle; train volunteers, coordinate with institution, keep records etc .

Judge, Yom Hashoah Writing Contest, Holocaust Center, Orlando FL, 2006, 2008.

Change Your Mind Day, September 2007

Volunteer in Prison Programs, 2004-present. (FCC Coleman 2004-06; Hernando CI 2005-07, Lowell CI 2006-present.)


LOCAL PRESENTATIONS (since 2001)

Several Workshops on “Mindfulness, Meditation, and Pedagogy, FCTL, 2007-2008.

“GLBT Professionals” Panel Participation, UCF-GLBSU, Sept. 2007.

“Queer Theory and Feminism” (with Shelley Park) Florida Feminist Equality Movement Summit,

            UCF, Sept. 2007.

 

“Oppression and Privilege.” FCPC State Conference, three workshop series, Spring 2006.

“What’s Wrong with Tolerance?” Diversity Week/UCF, 2005.

“Critical Issues in Education: Immigration, Religion, and Technology: Teaching/Studying Religion in the 21st Century.”  FCTL/Diversity Initiatives Summer Conference, May 2005.

“The Subject of Queer Theory.” UCF-GLBSU, 2005.

“Meditation and Pedagogy.” FCTL Winter Institute, December 2004.

“Leadership and Spiritual Practice.” President’s Leadership Institute, UCF, 2004.

“Buddhism.” First Methodist Church, Orlando, 2004.

“Masculinity Workshop.” UCF-FMLA, 2003.

“Queer Academics: Teaching Otherness.” UCF-GLBSU, 2003.

Panel Participation, Training for UCF Allies Program, 2002.

“Thinking about being queer in the university.” UCF-GLBSU, 2002.

“Queer Academics.” (with Tison Pugh) UCF-GLBSU, 2002.


Faculty Advisor at UCF    

Gay Lesbian Bisexual Student Union, 2001-2008.
Knight Circle, Neo-Pagan Student Group, 2004-2007.
Chalice at UCF, Unitarian Universalist Student Group, 2007.
Bhakti Yoga Club, 2003-2004.
Contemporary Renaissance, The Classics, 2002-2003.
UCF Swim and Dive Club, 2001-2002.