Mary Dunn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Theological Studies
Office Hours
Tu: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Courses Taught
Theories and Methods; Modern Seminar: Intimacies; Survey of Modern Christianity; Women in the Bible; Virgins, Martyrs, and Heretics; Theological Foundations; Mapping the Territory: Theory and Method in Theology and Religious Studies; Senior Research Seminar
Education
B.A., Columbia University, 1998
J.D., Harvard University, 2001
M.T.S., Harvard University, 2002
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
Research Interests
- History of Early Modern Christianity
- Saints and Sanctity
- Catholicism in France and New France
- Theory and Method in Religious Studies
Publications and Media Placements
Books
“The Cruelest of All Mothers”: Marie de l’Incarnation, Motherhood, and the Christian Tradition, Fordham University Press, 2016.
From Mother to Son: Selected Letters from Marie de l’Incarnation to Claude Martin, Oxford University Press, 2014
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Narratives of Sickness and Disability in
New France under the Ancien Régime, 1610-1763, in progress
Intimacies: Intersubjectivity and the Formation of the Religious Subject in the Modern
Christian West, edited with Brenna Moore, under review.
Selected Essays
“Bedside Manners: Sickness and the Jesuit Mission in Early Modern New France,” forthcoming
from the Journal of Jesuit Studies.
“Rethinking Agency after the Relational Turn,” The Journal of Religion 97, no. 3 (July 2017): 345-359.
“What Really Happened: Radical Empiricism and the Historian of Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84, no. 4 (December 2016): 881-902.
“Neither One Thing nor the Other: Discursive Polyvalence and Representations of Amerindian
Women in the Jesuit Relations,” Journal of Jesuit Studies 3 (2016): 179-196.
“‘But an Echo’?: Claude Martin, Marie de l’Incarnation, and Female Religious Identity in Seventeenth-Century New France,” The Catholic Historical Review 100, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 459-485.
“Mysticism, Motherhood, and Pathological Narcissism? A Kohutian Analysis of Marie
de l’Incarnation,” The Journal of Religion and Health 52, no. 2 (2013): 642-656.
“‘The Cruelest of All Mothers’: Marie de l’Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Discipleship,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 28, no. 1 (2012): 43-62.
“When ‘Wolves Become Lambs’: Hybridity and the ‘Savage’ in the Letters of Marie de l’Incarnation,” The Seventeenth Century 27, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 104-120.
“‘A Devotion Which… Distinguishes this People from all Others’: The Cult of Saint
Anne and the Making of the Colonial Community in Seventeenth-Century New France,” Quebec Studies 51 (Spring/Summer 2011): 3-20.
“The Miracles at Saint-Anne-du-Petit-Cap and Colonial Community Identity,” Canadian Historical Review 91.4 (December 2010): 611-635.
Honors and Awards
Faculty Research Leave; Mellon Faculty Development Grant; Presidential Fellowship (Harvard University); Phi Beta Kappa.
Professional Organizations and Associations
- American Academy of Religion
- American Catholic Historical Association
