Hey! I’m Dr. Kimi Bryson-Reilly
Gender, Sexuality & Religious Studies Scholar. Assistant Professor. Black Feminist. Ph.D.
My Work
Scholarship
I am currently working on a book manuscript which draws on autobiographies by Black Protestants assigned female at birth in order to intervene in discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in both gender studies and religious studies. More broadly, my research brings Black feminist, Black queer and Black trans critical theories to bear on questions of religion, identity, and politics.
Awards
My article “A Womanist Way Out: Reimagining God & Sexuality in Black Women’s Fiction” is a first-place winner of both the Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award and the Katie Geneva Cannon Award from the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.
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Assistant Professor
Western Washington University
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WGSS Ph.D.
Rutgers University
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Black Feminist
Introduction to Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies
This course explores how the concepts of race, sex, gender, and sexuality have evolved over time and highlights the intellectual contributions of feminists of color to the development of WGSS.
Select Courses Taught
Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
This course examines how race, ethnicity, and indigeneity shape and inform local and global understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Students will learn about the ways in which settler colonialism and racism impact gender justice.
Gender Across Borders
This course examines transnational feminism and examines the strategies people develop to resist global patriarchal structures; how definitions of gender and sexuality are reproduced, negotiated, deployed, and evolve over time.