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Email: wrobert@syr.edu

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Religion
305 Tolley Humanities Building
Phone: 315-443-3133

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William Robert

Assistant Professor of Religion

Research and Teaching Interests

William Robert works at intersections of philosophy of religion and history of Christianity, with particular interests in mysticism and sexuality.  His teaching and research areas also include methods and theories in religious studies, ethics, and religion and culture.


Courses

REL 100 What Is Belief?
REL 100 Ecstasy, Transgression, Religion
REL 100 Love, Death, and Other Passions
REL 120 Introduction to the Study of Religion
REL 200 Self, Sacrifice, and the Meaning of Life
REL 310 Medieval Christianities
REL 357 Queerly Religious
REL 391 Advanced Religion Seminar
REL 600 Sensuality, Sexuality, Religion
REL 654 Religious Corporealities


Education

  • PhD, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (2005)
  • MA, Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School (1999)
  • MA, Humanities, University of Chicago (1997)
  • BA, Philosophy and Literature, Davidson College (1996)


Career

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 2011–present
  • Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Program in LGBT Studies, and Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 2010–11
  • Humanities Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 2006–10
  • Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, 2005–06


Book

Trials of Antigone Trials: Of Antigone and Jesus
(Fordham University Press, 2010)


Recent Articles and Essays

  • "To Live, By Grace," Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace, ed. Elisabeth Weber (Fordham University Press, 2013): 153–67
  • "Performing Religiously Between Passion and Resistance," Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 12.2 (Fall 2012): 69-84
  • "A Mystic Impulse: From Apophatics to Decreation in Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart, and Simone Weil," Medieval Mystical Theology 22.1 (2012): 113–32
  • "All About Glory," Political Theology (22 June 2012)
  • "Nike Free," Frequencies: A Collective Genealogy of Spirituality (10 November 2011)