Prof. Antoinette E. DeNapoli

Prof. Dr. Antoinette E. DeNapoli is the John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion (Professor of South Asian Religions) at Texas Christian University. She obtained her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of South Florida in 1996, her M.A. in Religion from The Florida State University in 2000, and her Ph.D. in West and South Asian Religions from the Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University in 2009. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Grinnell College (2009–2010), and then as an Assistant Professor (2010–2016) and Associate Professor (2010–2016) at the University of Wyoming. She joined Texas Christian University as an Associate Professor in 2017. Her research areas include Asceticism, Devotion, and Mysticism; Gender and Religion; Religion, Ritual and Performance; Goddess Traditions; Gurus and Divine Personalities; Ethnographic/Narrative Methodologies; Theories and Methods in Religion; Religion, Globalization, and Modernity.