About
MA Religion (concentration History), Yale University
BA English, Westmont College
Biography
Kimberly B. George is a creative and academic writer, a writing coach, and social entrepreneur. In addition to her doctoral work at GRSJ, she teaches online classes in critical social theory with The School for Critical Social Theory, an experimental online model of education in which academics and activists teach classes over Google Plus. She also teaches writing to academics and professionals, emphasizing the value—and the bliss— of integrating more creative practices into the writing process.
Kimberly has a BA in English from Westmont College and further graduate training in counseling psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. From 2008–2011, she was a Merit Scholar at Yale, where she graduated summa cum laude with an MA in Religion and Historical Studies, before working at Yale as a postgraduate fellow in Gender Equity and Policy. Her work in these various contexts has pursued an interdisciplinary journey—including the study of English literature, relational psychology, gender studies, and American religious history. Currently, her research at UBC focuses on how the study of affect and emotion can help us better understand intersectional systems of power.
Most important to her academic life are the kinds of daily creative practices that connect the mind, body, and spirit—such as poetry; pausing more; reading to metabolize, not just consume; and savoring with careful attention the sensory life in the here-and-now.
Research
Research
Kimberly is interested in the emergence of “affect studies” in 1990s Western academia, and the historical, institutional contexts in which affect studies was produced. She is pursuing questions like: What are the questions affect studies was/is asking as it emerged as a discursive tool? What has the field not asked and why? And how does the very study of affect connect to questions about epistemology, mind-body dualism, and western systems of knowledge production? In her work, she hopes to take the best tools from “affect studies,” while also tracking alternative genealogies for the study of affect using feminist, postcolonial, and indigenous storytelling and literatures. Her work foregrounds the critical need to always consider the production of emotion through an intersectional lens of analysis. She also attends closely to relations of power and historical systems of violence, while working toward the question of how we might create more flourishing in this world. Her goal is to produce research that is useful for teachers and learners of all kinds who are asking how to better use and understand the role of emotion in learning and reading practices.
Publications
Selected Publications
George, Kimberly B. (2011, December). Conservative Evangelical Gender Ideologies, the War on Terror, and Women-As-Victims: An Expansion of Iris Marion Young’s Logic of Masculinist Protection. Paper presented at American Religious History Working Group, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
George, Kimberly B. (2011, June). Conquest Culture: Women, War, and God. Paper presented at Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, BC, Canada.
George, Kimberly B. (2011, March). Martin Buber’s I and Thou: Possibilities and Limits for Feminist Philosophy of Religion. Conference paper presented at American Academy of Religion Annual Regional Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
George, Kimberly B. (2010, March). An Exploration of Key Moments of the Conceptual History of Rape in the US: Or, Muted Embodiment, Negated Relationality, and Silenced Violence. Paper presented at Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Colloquium & Working Group at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Additional Description
Websitehttp://www.kimberlybgeorge.com/ Kimberly B. George is a creative and academic writer, a writing coach, and social entrepreneur. In addition to her doctoral work at GRSJ, she teaches online classes in critical social theory with The School for Critical Social Theory, an experimental online model of education in which academics and activists teach classes over Google Plus. She also teaches writing to academics and professionals, emphasizing the value—and the bliss— of integrating more creative practices into the writing process.