Joseph A. Marchal

Joseph A. Marchal is Professor of Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Ball State University. They are the author, editor, or coeditor of more than ten books, including Appalling Bodies: Queer Figures Before andAfter Paul’s Letters; Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles; and Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies. They are also currently serving as chair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s first-ever Committee for LGBTIQ+ Scholars and Scholarship and founding coeditor (with Melissa Wilcox) of the new journal QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion.