Kathleen Duffy
Kathleen Duffy is a doctoral student and scholar-artist in American Religions. She studies the contemporary religious landscape of the United States and the ghosts of the past that haunt it. Kathleen is committed to making accessible and engaging scholarship in hopes that her work can reach those beyond the academy. Currently, Kathleen is developing a long-form narrative podcast. It tells the story of a secret queer romance that unfolds in a Catholic youth group and serves as a lens to understand the surveillance of bodies and the performance of suffering as experienced by teenagers in these spaces. Kathleen is also in the early stages of adapting her core research — a site-specific study of the intersection between religion, nation, and land — to a podcast, as well. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2020 with her B.A. in Religious Studies. Her advisor is Robert Orsi.