Eleanor Tiplady Higgs received her PhD in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London in 2018. She is an outgoing Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies (2018-2020), University of Cape Town, South Africa, and shortly to begin a Fellowship at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2020-2021). Her interests centre on gender and sexuality, narrative, identity, ethics, Christianity, and coloniality; about which she writes in her forthcoming monograph as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality series.