Interests: Teaching religion in a pluralist society; Contemporary Theologies;  Christian theology and Queer Studies; Bakhtin

Select Research: 

"From Sole Learning to Soul Learning." Teaching Theology and Religion.  Blackwell. vol. 9 no. 3
(2006), pp. 165-174.

"'What a Difference a Gay Makes!' :  Queering the Magic Negro."  Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 5, Fall, 2003 (Posted Fall 2004).

North Dakota Quarterly:  Kristina K. Groover, ed. Things of the Spirit:  Women Writers Constructing Spirituality.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, forthcoming, Fall/Winter, 2005)

"Queering the Priestly Woman." International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, forthcoming.

Self-Publication:  Trial edition of Not Your Momma's Sunday School, text for Religion 100:  Introduction to Religious Inquiry, Fall, 2005

Invited Speaker: 5th God & Sexuality Conference, Bard College, April 25-26, 2004
    www.godandsexuality.org/gscupdates/gscupdate.html

"And the Bakht Goes On...: the dialogue of silence in Job", The American Academy of Religion Bakhtin Group, November 2001.

Book Proposal under review: 
2005     Baldwin, Gayle R. I Am Whosever:  Religion Responses to the Murder of Sakia Gunn.  Proposal under peer review for Palgrave/McMillan publishers.

Current Project

My project began two years ago when I began to explore the power of the religious imagination to either blind one from any new things God might want to do, or, if startled enough, become open to new things, new forms, new images. Last summer I spent a month in New York City with the Cross Currents colloquium and focused my project on the murder of Sakia Gunn and the spiritual and responses to that murder.

 My present book project, Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh: Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and the Parabolic Narrative compares the religious and spiritual responses to the murders of Sakia Gunn and Matthew Shepard.

At the upcoming God and Sexuality seminar at Bard College in April,  I will share some original pieces, poems, stories, etc. that come from both of these communities and sketch out some ways I see how these pieces are reflective of the way the religious imagination is shaped by race, gender and other factors.

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