Karen deVries is currently adjunct faculty at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana where she teaches for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Political Science; University Studies, and the Honors College. She recently received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness department at UC Santa Cruz with a designated emphasis in Feminist Studies. When she is not teaching, she is working on her book manuscript, Prodigal Knowledge: Queer Journeys in Religious and Secular Borderlands.