Thinking with Wendy Mallette's Lesbian Feminist Killjoys: Sin, Queer Negativity, and Inherited Guilt (NYU Press, 2026)

This panel will celebrate, think with, and critically engage Wendy Mallette's new monograph, Lesbian Feminist Killjoys: Sin, Queer Negativity, and Inherited Guilt (NYU Press, 2026). This author-meets-respondents session will feature scholars at the graduate, junior, and senior level who are interested in historical and/or theological approaches to queer, lesbian, feminist, and trans studies, Christian discourse on sin, and American religious cultures. Dr. Mallette will offer a response.