EMILY A. HOLMES, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Barry Hall 230
Phone: (901) 321-3325
E-Mail: eholmes1@cbu.edu

Dr. Holmes joined the Religion and Philosophy faculty at CBU in 2008. She holds degrees from Emory University (Ph.D. 2008), Harvard University (M.T.S. 1999), University of Cambridge (M.Phil. 1998), and Tulane University (B.A. 1996). Prior to teaching at CBU, she taught part-time at Rhodes College.

Dr. Holmes’ research interests include the theology of the incarnation, medieval women's mysticism, French feminist and continental philosophy, and feminist and womanist theologies. She is the co-editor, with Wendy Farley, of Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion (Baylor University Press, November 2011), and she has published essays in Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, and in the collection Luce Irigaray: Teaching, edited by Luce Irigaray and Mary Green (Continuum, 2009). She is the recipient of grants from the Louisville Institute, the CBU Faculty-Staff Delelopment fund, and the Lindsay Young Fellowship at the University of Tennessee, and was a fellow in the AAR/Luce Summer Seminars in Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology (2009-2010). Dr. Holmes served as co-chair of the Women and Religion section of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) from 2007-2010. She is currently working on a revision of her dissertation, tentatively titled Writing the Body of Christ: A Theology of the Incarnation through Women's Mystical Writings, along with a collection (co-edited with Lenart Skof), Breathing with Luce Irigaray.

At Christian Brothers, Dr. Holmes is pleased to teach courses in World Religions, Christian Spirituality, Classical Christian Thought, and Understanding Religion. She has developed new courses in Women and Christianity and in the Spirituality and Ethics of Eating. Her religion courses are interdisciplinary in approach, drawing on Dr. Holmes’ strengths in theology, philosophy, literature, and aesthetics, as well as her personal and professional interests in religious diversity, mysticism, and spiritual practices.