Welcome, friends,

I welcome you to this brief online representation of my work and teaching. I hope that you find a question or idea somewhere in here that delights or provokes your curiosity.

I joined the faculty of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH as an instructor in religion, ethics, and philosophy in August of 2017. Prior to PEA, I taught at Ecumenical Theological Seminary as Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History. To facilitate classrooms where students lead the work to grapple with diverse interpretations of what makes life well lived in thoughtful conversation with the world's religions and philosophies is both an honor and a personal duty.

My theological work moves in the darker spaces of history, seeking where God is making a way out of no way in the lives of the poor, disenfranchised, oppressed, and marginalized. My commitment to social justice calls me onto the streets and into relationships of solidarity and trust. I study, practice, and facilitate consensus and (other) horizontal group processes and give related workshops to community groups. I live my theology in quotidian interactions. Indeed, if we do not live what we learn and teach, what are we doing? People amaze me. From cooperative living to the informal networks of shared resources and learning that make even the most inhuman cities human again, I will be where the people are.

My scholarship focuses at the intersections of theology with politics, critical theory, feminism, queer theory and economics. Trained in systematic and constructive theology, philosophy, and social ethics, I am a teacher and writer, friend and compatriot. I am also a theologian. Whether in a library or on a street, I walk paths of transforming knowledge that move life toward love.

In May of 2015, I graduated with my doctorate in theology from Harvard. My dissertation, titled “Implicate and Transgress: Marcella Althaus-Reid, Writing, and a Transformation of Theological Knowledge,” pushes theologians to rethink our praxis of academic writing as an active contribution to liberation struggles. My work with liberation and feminist theologies was sharpened by my time as an Honorary Research Fellow with the Institute for Theological Partnerships at the University of Winchester in the UK. I spent two years in residence at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St Louis. I achieved my Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (2007), and I completed my Bachelor Degree in Art History at Denison University in Granville, Ohio (2003). I serve as co-chair for the Liberation Theologies Group of the American Academy of Religion.

You can find my c.v. and contact information here. I always appreciate receiving questions or ideas. Please don’t hesitate to send me a note to connect or for more information. I am glad you are here, and I look forward to our future conversations.

With a smile,
Hannah
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Dr. Hannah L. Hofheinz