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  • Contributors

Andújar, Rey
Born in Santo Domingo in 1977, Rey is the author of several works of fiction including Candela (Alfaguara-PR, Pen Club Award 2009); Amoricidio (FIL-Santo Domingo Fiction Award 2006), and Saturnario (Ultramar Literature Prize NYC, 2010). He’s been researching the connection between body, language, and literature for several years. His performance, Ciudadano Cero, made the Official Selection at the Santo Domingo International Theater Festival in 2006, and was the inaugural performance at the Puerto Rican International Theater Festival in 2007. Andújar is a Ph.D. candidate in Caribbean Literature and Philosophy at Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.

Bautista, Adrian
Adrian Bautista is a doctoral candidate in the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University (OH). His research interests include race and ethnicity, masculinities, Latina/o Studies, gender and sport, American Catholicism, and ecofeminism. Bautista is also Associate Dean of Campus Life at Oberlin College (OH), serving as Director of the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People, Director of Residential Education and the First-Year Experience, a Judicial Coordinator, and Class Dean.

Bingemer, Maria Clara Lucchetti
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer is Brazilian. She completed her Bachelor’s studies in journalism, as well as a Master’s in Theology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She obtained her Doctorate in Theology from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome. Currently Associate Professor in Fundamental Theology and the Treatise on the Revelation of God at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, she is a frequent lecturer at international conferences. A highly regarded theologian in Latin America, she is a leader in the Jesuit-founded lay movement Christian Life Communities, and was Regional Coordinator of the Latin American Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians from 1986 to 1992. She has served on editorials boards, Revista Eclesiastica Brasileira and Concilium, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and her publications include: Simone Weil: una mística en los límites (Buenos Aires: Ciudad Nueva, 2011); Jesucristo siervo de Dios y Mesias glorioso (Valencia/São Paulo: Siquem/Paulinas, 2009); ¿Un rostro para Dios? (Madrid: San Pablo, 2008); Cuerpo de mujer y experiencia de Dios. Sentir y experimentar a Dios de un modo femenino (Buenos Aires: San Benito, 2007), with Ivone Gebara; Mary, Mother of God and Mother of the Poor (Orbis Books, 1989); A Face for God (Miami: Convivium Press, 2013); and The Mystery and the World (Oregon: Cascade Books, 2013); as well as articles in specialized reviews and journals.

Casarella, Peter J. –
Professor of Catholic Studies, and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University, effective Fall 2013 Peter J. Casarella joined the Department of Theology and the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. His essays in scholarly journals cover a variety of topics—medieval Christian Neoplatonism, contemporary theological aesthetics, and the Hispanic/Latino presence in the U.S. Catholic Church. In 2005, he served as President of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the U.S. (ACHTUS). He has edited or co-edited: Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church (1998), Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity: The Thought of Louis Dupré (1998), Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance (2006), and, most recently, A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (2011). In the coming year, he will publish a monograph, Word as Bread: Language and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa (Aschendorff Verlag), and an edited volume on the new encyclical on economic globalization: Jesus Christ: The Face of Social Progress (Eerdmans).

Castillo, Daniel P. –
Daniel P. Castillo is a Ph.D. candidate in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also [End Page 101] an NSF-funded Fellow in Notre Dame’s GLOBES program—an interdisciplinary program aimed at exploring the linkages between biology, the environment, and society. His dissertation, “An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Gutiérrez, The Yahwist, and the Human Ecology of Alf Hornborg,” endeavors to interrelate the discourses of liberation and...

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