Dr Dawn Llewellyn is Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies and Deputy Director, Institute of Gender Studies at the University of Chester, UK. Her research focuses on gender and contemporary Christianity and spiritualities. While grounded in qualitative approaches in the study of religion, she also draws on feminist theologies and hermeneutics; sociology of religion; and feminist theory. Her current project examines the interactions between Christian women’s identities, motherhood and voluntary childlessness, and she recently published a monograph entitled Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality: Troubling the Waves with Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Selected Other Publications
- 2008 Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. Sawyer (eds), Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008).
- 2012 ‘Riskier Reading: Women’s Spiritual Reading and the Search for Religious Knowledge’ in Elisabeth Arweck and Matthew Guest (eds), Religion and Knowledge (Aldershot, Ashgate: 2012).
- 2009 ‘Across Generations: Women’s Spiritualities, Literary Texts and Third Wave Feminism’ in Chris Klassen (ed.), Feminist Spirituality: The Next Generation (Lexington Books, 2009).
