Rebecca Janzen

Rebecca Janzen studierte an der Universität Waterloo Geschichte und Spanisch. 2013 wurde sie an der Universität Toronto mit einer Dissertation im Bereich Lateinamerikanische Literatur promoviert („Collective Bodies and Collective Change: Blindness, Pilgrimage, Motherhood and Miracles in Twentieth Century Mexican Literature“; The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control, 2015). Sie hat über Mennoniten und Mormonen (Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, 2018), Religion und Film (Unholy Trinity: State, Church and Film in Mexico, 2021) und Menschenrechte (Unlawful Violence: Law and Cultural Production in 21st Century Mexico, 2022), geschrieben. Ihr aktuelles Buchprojekt trägt den Arbeitstitel, Mining Religion: Religious Sites and Extractive Industries across the Americas.  

• März bis Juli 2025; Januar bis Mai 2026; Januar bis Mai 2027
  Humboldt Forschungsstipendiatin, Deutsches Bergbau Museum
• Mai bis Juni 2024
  Fellowship, Marian Library, University of Dayton
• Seit Januar 2024
  Full Professor, Spanisch und Komparatistik, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
• August 2021 bis Mai 2023
  Associate Professor, Spanisch und Komparatistik, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
• August 2017 bis Juli 2021
  Assistant Professor, Spanisch und Komparatistik, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
• May 2017
  Fellowship, Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Januar bis Mai 2017
  Kreider Fellowship, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA
• August 2013 bis Juli 2017
  Assistant Professor, Spanisch, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, USA
• 2013
  PhD, University of Toronto, with a thesis titled “Collective Bodies and Collective Change: Blindness, Pilgrimage, Motherhood and Miracles in Twentieth Century Mexican Literature”

• Lateinamerikanische Religion
• Lateinamerikanische Kultur
• Lateinamerikanische Bergbau
• Mennoniten
• Mormonen

Mining Religion: Religious Sites and Extractive Industries Across the Americas, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung; Deutsches Bergbau Museum

• American Academy of Religion
• Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present

• “La eco-teología en la obra y el proyecto social de Ernesto Cardenal,” Balajú 22 (2025), 2-21.
• “One’s a Hugh Grant thriller, one’s a hot-mess reality show – and both center on stereotypes about Mormon Women,” The Conversation, 5 December 2024,  https://theconversation.com/ones-a-hugh-grant-thriller-ones-a-hot-mess-reality-show-and-both-center-on-stereotypes-about-mormon-women-243886
• “Mining for Information in the Marian Library,” Marian Library, University of Dayton, 16 Sept. 2024, https://udayton.edu/blogs/marianlibrary/2024-09-16-mining-for-information-in-the-marian-library.php
• “Lay Religious Associations in Extractive Zones: A Case Study of Diamantina, Brazil,” Religions, 15:11 (2024), https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15111328.
• “Mexican Mormon Art and Architecture.” Retrospective: A Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Publication, edited by Mason Allred and Amanda Beardsley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 276-302.
• “Citizenship and Water Conflict: Mormons and the Mexican State,” The Mexican Jacobins: Anti-Catholicism in the Revolution, 1913-1940, edited by David S. Dalton and Jurgen Buchenau, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2024, 213-235.
• “Sarah Polley’s Women Talking: Adaptation, Trauma, and the Representation of Sexualized Violence in Film. The Conrad Grebel Review 41.2 (2023), pp. 168-190. https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/cgr-spring-2023-41.2_2.pdf
• Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022.
• Unholy Trinity: State, Church and Film in Mexico, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.
• Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Popular Culture, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018.

Podcasts (Auswahl)

• Interviewed about Unlawful Violence, New Books Network Podcast, 5 March 2025, https://newbooksnetwork.com/unlawful-violence
• Interviewed about Mexican Mormon Art and Architecture, Latter Day Saint Art Podcast https://thepodcastcollaborative.com/view/podcast_discovery_database/entry/31832/
• Interview about Mining and Religion for the Hagley History Hangout Podcast, March 2024,  https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-rebecca-janzen