About
Dr. Matthew R. Hotham is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University. His work brings together theoretical approaches to the body, affect, and animality in order to understand medieval Sufi texts and contexts as well as their contemporary reception. His in-progress book project examines the relationship between Islamophobia, affect, and human-animal relations by investigating the use of pigs, dogs, cows, and goats in anti-Muslim rhetoric. Education
PHD IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
MTS IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Harvard Divinity School, 2009
MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING
Syracuse University, 2007
BA IN ENGLISH AND RELIGION
Colgate University, 2003 Publications
“Affect, Animality, and Islamophobia: Human-Animal Relations in the Production of Muslim Difference in America,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 46, no. 3–4 (August 11, 2017): 25–38. Memberships
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
