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Spring 2025 Faculty Scholars in Residence Talk: “The Apophasis of Transgender: Negative Theology and Ecstatic Bodies”

C. Libby, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Tuesday, April 1, Noon-1:00pm. 124 Sparks Building

Lunch will be provided.

This talk places the theological practice of unknowing (apophasis) in conversation with contemporary writing on the abyss. Turning to medieval French mystic Marguerite Porete’s visionary writing, I theorize an understanding of embodiment that exceeds the biopolitical logics of gender.