Research Interests

Catholicism in America, Christian social ethics, feminist theology, queer studies in religion, ethnographic methods in the study of religion, religion and fashion 

Publications

Edited Collections

• Otto von Busch and Jeanine Viau, eds., Silhouettes of the Soul: Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)

Articles/Essays

• “Fashion and Religion – A conversation between the editors of the book Silhouettes of the Soul,” with Otto von Busch for The Revealer, Center for Religion and Media at New York University, August 1, 2023, https://therevealer.org/fashion-and-religion/.
• “‘Everybody Being Themselves Real Hard’ – A Serious Conversation about Theology and Fashion with Linn Tonstad,” The Revealer, Center for Religion and Media at New York University, September 3, 2020, https://therevealer.org/everybody-being-themselves-real-hard-a-serious-conversation-about-theology-and-fashion-with-linn-tonstad/.

• “Reparative Tendencies and ‘A Warm Heart for the Cold,’” Syndicate, A Special Symposium: Ferguson and Theology, August 27, 2014.

• “Listening and Speaking as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Negotiating Dualisms in Intercultural Feminist Collaboration,” with Eunice Kamaara and Elisabeth Vasko, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 28.2 (2012), 49-67.

• “Listening to Experience, Looking Towards Flourishing: Ethnography as a Global Feminist Theo/ethical Practice,” with Edith Chamwama, Eunice Kamaara, Sussy Gumo Kurgat, Damaris Parsitau, Emily Reimer-Barry, Elisabeth Vasko, and Jeanine Viau, Practical Matters, May 2010.

Book Sections/Chapters

• “In and Out of One Another’s Closets: A Dialogue,” with Shekinah Morrison, in Silhouettes of the Soul: Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

• “Introduction,” “Section One – Interfacing the Divine,” “Section Two – Practices of Emulation and Transformation,” and “Section Three – The Radiance of the Concealed,” with Otto von Busch, in Silhouettes of the Soul: Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

• “Calling Out in the Wilderness: Queer Youth and American Catholicism,” in More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church, Volume I: Voices of Our Times, edited by Christine Firer Hinze and J. Patrick Hornbeck II (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 124-137.

Book Reviews

• Lynn S. Neal. Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America. Elizabeth Bucar. Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89 (1): 372-376, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfab021. Book review, National.
• Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow. Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016. 364 pp. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 6 (1):101. Book review, International.
• “Toward a ‘Radical Reordering of Esteemed Values,’” Syndicate, Symposium in response to Elisabeth Vasko’s Beyond Apathy: A Theology for Bystanders, October 23, 2017.
• Peter Nynäs & Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life (Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012) in Journal of Contemporary Religion 29.3 (2014), 571-572.    

Conference Papers/Presentations

• Forthcoming “Consent and Contemplative Pedagogy in the Post*pandemic Classroom: Finding Our Way through the Labyrinth,” accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, March 1-3, 2024.
• “A Sex-Positivity Primer for Christian Ethicists,” Poster and zine for the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago, IL, January 5-8, 2023, https://issuu.com/jeviau/docs/forher_pleasure.
• “Toward a Soteriology of Transgression: A Response to Lynn Neal’s Religion in Vogue,” Dialogue with the Author: Session on Lynn Neal’s Book, Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America (NYU Press, 2019), Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 21, 2021.
• “(Not so) Heavenly Bodies: Troubling the Catholic Analogical Imagination,” Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 26, 2019.
• “‘every living creature’ – Teaching the Flood Narrative at a Public University in Florida,” Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, March 8-9, 2019.
• “In and Out of One Another's Closets: Notes on Form, Fashion, and Freedom in the Classroom,” Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA, November 21, 2017.
• “Love Beyond Mercy: Respect as a Model for Communion with and among LGBTQ* Persons,” Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, June 2016.
• “Not Guests, Still Handmaids: An Analysis of Feminist Vocations After Vatican II,” Still Guests in Our Own House? Women and the Church Since Vatican II, Loyola University Chicago, November 7, 2015.

• “Post*feminist and/or F-ing Queer: ‘A Permanent Exercise of Serious Doubting’” Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 24, 2014.

• Panelist, “Ethnography, Ethics, and Graduate Studies,” Fieldwork and Christian Ethics interest group, the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Seattle, WA, January 11, 2014.

• “Calling Out in the Wilderness: Is 'Nones' an Appropriate Designation?” Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, MD, November 26, 2013.    

• “de rigueur: A Preliminary Study of Terms,” Ethics and Sexualities working group, the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago, IL, January 4, 2013.

• “Does It Get Better? Considering the ‘Capacity to Persevere in a [Queer and] Livable Life,’” Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, November 20, 2012.

• “Breaking the Silence, Living Resurrection: A Study of LGBTQ Youth Activists at Two Urban Catholic Universities,” the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Washington, DC, January 7, 2012.    
• “‘With Her Hands on the Threshold’: Examining Judges 19-21, Sexual Violence, and Magisterial Culpability,” Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, CA, November 19, 2011.    

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026