Darlene Juschka
Associate Professor
Religious Studies
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Darlene Juschka is an associate professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department and the Religious Studies Department at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada. Her work is multidisciplinary with a B.A. in Classical Studies, a M.A. in ritual studies (ancient and modern), and a PhD in the Phenomenology of Religion (ritual, myth, and symbol) and religion and feminism. She has currently begun a second writing project - a poststructural analysis of the concept of pain in the Eurowest, and is working on two major research projects: "The Healing Journey: A Longitudinal Study of Women Who Have Been Abused by Intimate Partners"; and "Contours of the Flesh: The Semiotics of Pain."
Research Interest
Feminist methods, theories, and epistemologies; popluar culture; globalization; feminist history; gender and sexuality studies (ancient and modern); approaches to the study of religion; symbol, myth, and ritual (ancient and modern); folk religions, shamanism, and possession; cross cultural study of religion, ancient Greek and Roman religions; ritual associated with death and burial (ancient and modern)
