Education

• Ph.D. Religion (Theological Studies), certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, Vanderbilt University.
• M.A. Humanities, certificate in African and African American Studies, Duke University
• M.Div., Duke University.
• B.A., Azusa Pacific University

Research Interests

Brandy is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer with the Luce Project on “Religion and its Publics.” Brandy has a Ph.D. in Theological Studies, with a minor in Ethics & Society and a certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies, from Vanderbilt University, where she was a fellow in the Program in Theology and Practice. Her research focuses on theological anthropology and practices of formation, exploring intersections between constructive theologies and feminist and queer theories to better understand and envision accounts of faithful Christian identity and community amidst difference. Her dissertation, “Who is the ‘We?’ Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities,” draws on queer theoretical work on temporality and contemporary analyses of postliberal methodology to critically examine and challenge how feminist theological accounts of identity formation articulate and understand the relationship between Christian identity, on the one hand, and gender and sexual identities, on the other, in a way that undermines their aims and delimits difference. 

Brandy has published on topics ranging from Bonhoeffer and Foucault on racial identity, to poststructuralism and liberation theology, to Eastern Orthodox apophatic theology and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. She has served as a contributor to the Women in Theology blog and serves on the steering committee for the Queer Studies in Religion section of the AAR. Brandy is under-care for ordination with the Disciples of Christ (Christian Church). She is also an avid runner and Jeopardy fan.