Madeline Jarrett
Doctoral Student
Systematic Theology
Minor: Theological Ethics
Madeline Jarrett
Contact
Stokes Hall N 330F
Email: jarrettm@bc.edu
Education
- M.Div., Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, 2018
- B.A., Theology and Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 2014
Courses
Teaching in High School (Mount Alvernia High School)
- The New Testament (2018-2019)
- World Religions (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
- Morality (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
- Introduction to Social Justice (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
- Sacramental Theology (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
- Introduction to Psychology (2019-2020, 2020-2021)
Teaching Assistant
- God, Self, and Society (Fall 2022, Spring 2023), Instructor: Dr. Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, O.P.
- God, Self, and Society (Fall 2023), Instructor: Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
- Faith, Ethics, and the Sciences in the 21st Century (Spring 2024), Instructor: Dr. Stephen Pope
Biography
Maddie is a doctoral student in systematic theology. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2014 with majors in Theology and Psychology. After her undergraduate studies, Maddie participated in Amate House, a year-long AmeriCorps service program based in Chicago, where she served full-time as the ESL Tutor, art teacher, and creative writing instructor at a Catholic elementary school.
After her time in Chicago, Maddie moved to Boston to pursue theological studies at Boston College's School of Theology and Ministry, where she earned her Master of Divinity in 2018. Prior to joining the Theology Department as a doctoral student, she taught theology and psychology and served as the Theology Department Chair at Mount Alvernia High School in Newton, MA.
Maddie is a 2020 recipient of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Excellence in Education Award and a 2023 recipient of Boston College’s Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
Maddie’s research engages issues of theological anthropology, particularly as they relate to embodied experiences of grace and limitation. She has related interests in temporality, disability theology, resurrection, and the theology of Karl Rahner. Maddie has been published in Philosophy & Theology, Concilium (forthcoming June 2024), Political Theology, The Journal of Disability and Religion, and Commonweal Magazine.
Scholarship
Publications
· “Disability, Healing, and the Problem of Miracles: Perils and Possibilities for Disabled Hope.” Concilium (June 2024) [forthcoming]
· “Disability’s Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine. By Devan Stahl.” Political Theology (2023): 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2023.2243104.
· “Bodies of Hope: Temporality, Disability, and the God of Uncontrollable Mystery.” Philosophy & Theology: 33 (2021): 139-157. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2022107144.
· “Are All Welcome?” Commonweal Magazine. April 2020. 38-39.
· “Feminist, Queer, Crip. By Alison Kafer.” Journal of Disability & Religion 23.4 (2019): 425-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2019.1673352.
· “Body and Soul: The Spiritual Lessons of Physical Disability.” Boston College Magazine. Summer 2018. 48-49.
Lectures, Presentations, and Conferences
· “Risking Resurrection: Agency, Phenomenology, and the Feminist Ethic of Risk.” Catholic Theological Society of America. Baltimore, MD. June 2024 [upcoming].
· Upcoming: Conference Director, 4th Annual Boisi Center Graduate Student Conference: Digital Humanity?: Artificial Intelligence, Spirituality, and the Art of Human Connection. Boston College. 23 March 2024 [upcoming].
· “Liberating Disability: Crip Time and the Theological Mediation of Existential Freedom.” Liberating Spatiality and Temporality. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 5 March 2023.
· Conference Director, 2nd Annual Accessing the Divine Conference: Interdependent Bodies: Creation, Disability, and Reimagining Relationality. Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium & Boston College. 3 March 2023.
· “Crip Time as Messianic Time: Insights from the Disabled Body on Temporality and Futurity.” American Academy of Religion. Denver, CO. 19 November 2023.
· Organizing Committee Member, Accessing the Divine Conference: Disability, Embodiment, and Claiming Joyous Futures. Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium & Boston University. 25 March 2022.
· “Bodies of Hope.” Presentation for Systematics area colloquium. Boston College. 26 October 2022.
· “The Disabled God.” St. Cecilia’s Parish, Boston MA. 27 March 2022.
· “Identity Crisis: Girard, Longeran, and the Principles of Christian Political Engagement.” 2nd Annual Boisi Center Graduate Student Conference: Religious Activism, Political Change; Political Activism, Religious Change. Boston College. 26 February 2022.
· “During Disability Pride, Religious Institutions Still Behind on Accessibility.” Interview for an article in Religion News Service. July 2021. Online.
· “Art and Disability: An Image-Driven Framework for Justice.” The Imago Dei Conference: The Image of God through the Arts. Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. 20 October 2018.
· First Witnesses. Charcoal on paper. Art display for The Imago Dei Conference: The Image of God through the Arts. Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. 20 October 2018.
· “Enfleshed Hope: Disability and the Divine Encounter.” Boston College Grad Talks Symposium. 13 April 2018.
· Health Mentor Speaker. Boston University Interprofessional Education Group. 8 December 2016.
· Neuromuscular Didactics Speaker. Presentation for Harvard University Resident Training Program, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. 15 November 2016.