Megan P Goodwin

Megan P. Goodwin is an American religion scholar/teacher whose work focuses on gender and sexuality in contemporary American minority religions. She is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative and Innovative Pedagogy in the Humanities and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. In 2013-14, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina.

Goodwin holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of Religious Studies. Her dissertation was entitled "Good Fences: American Sexual Exceptionalism and Minority Religions." She holds an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with concentrations in critical theories of gender and sexuality. Her thesis was "Mythical Beasts: How Queer Bodies Expand the Religious Imaginary."

In addition to her peer-reviewed work in academic journals, she has written for more general audiences. Her article "Don't Be Tooken in by Kimmy Schmidt's Cult" on the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was published by Religious Dispatches. Also, she was featured on Directions in the Study of Religion with Kristian Petersen for Marginalia, an Los Angeles Review of Books channel.

Goodwin says, "Teaching is a core value of my scholarly identity."