Madeline Jarrett
Doctoral Student
Systematic Theology
Minor: Theological Ethics
Madeline Jarrett
Contact
Stokes Hall N 330F
Email: jarrettm@bc.edu
Education
- M.Div., Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, 2018
- B.A., Theology and Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 2014
Courses
Teaching Fellow
- God, Self, and Society (2025-2026)
Teaching Assistant
- God, Self, and Society (2022-2023), Instructor: Dr. Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, O.P.
- God, Self, and Society (Fall 2023), Instructor: Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
- Faith, Ethics, and the Sciences in the 21st Century (Spring 2024), Instructor: Dr. Stephen Pope
Teaching in High School (Mount Alvernia High School)
- Introduction to the New Testament (2018-2019)
- Introduction to Psychology (2019-2021)
- Moral Theology (2018-2021)
- Sacramental Theology (2018-2021)
- Social Justice (2018-2021)
- World Religions (2018-2021)
Biography
Maddie is a doctoral candidate in Systematic Theology with a minor in Theological Ethics. She is also pursuing her Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) at the Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College.
Maddie’s research engages eschatology and theological anthropology, with particular emphasis on questions related to temporality, hope, disability, and moral agency. Her dissertation is entitled, “Cripping Eschatology: Disability, Theology, and the Christian Temporal Imagination.”
Maddie graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2014 with majors in Theology and Psychology. After her undergraduate studies, Maddie participated in Amate House, a year-long AmeriCorps service program based in Chicago, where she served full-time as the ESL Tutor, art teacher, and creative writing instructor at a Catholic elementary school. After her time in Chicago, Maddie moved to Boston to pursue theological studies at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, where she earned her Master of Divinity in 2018.
Prior to joining the Theology Department as a doctoral student, she taught theology and psychology and served as the Theology Department Chair at Mount Alvernia High School in Newton, MA. Maddie is a recipient of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Excellence in Education Award and a recipient of Boston College’s Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award. In 2024, she was a member of Yale’s Life Worth Living Teaching Fellowship program.
Maddie has published in Philosophy & Theology, Concilium, Political Theology, The Journal of Disability and Religion, and Commonweal Magazine.
Scholarship
Publications
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
- “Disability, Healing, and the Problem of Miracles: Perils and Possibilities for Disabled Hope.” Concilium (June 2024): 11-20. https://concilium-hymnsam-co-uk.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/issues/20243-health/.
- “Bodies of Hope: Temporality, Disability, and the God of Uncontrollable Mystery.” Philosophy & Theology: 33 (2021): 139-157. doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2022107144.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
- "Madeline Jarrett Responds to Roundtable on the Role of the Catholic Church in Addressing Reproductive Injustices." Catholic Moral Theology. August 15, 2022. https://catholicmoraltheology.com/madeline-jarrett-responds-to-roundtable-on-the-role-of-the-catholic-church-in-addressing-reproductive-injustices/.
- “Are All Welcome?” Commonweal Magazine. April 2020. 38-39. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/are-all-welcome.
- “Body and Soul: The Spiritual Lessons of Physical Disability.” Boston College Magazine. Summer 2018. 48-49. https://issuu.com/bcua/docs/bcm_su18.
BOOK REVIEWS
- “Disability’s Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine. By Devan Stahl.” Political Theology 24.8 (2023): 864-866. doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2023.2243104.
- “Feminist, Queer, Crip. By Alison Kafer.” Journal of Disability & Religion 23.4 (2019): 425-426. doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2019.1673352.
Conference Leadership
- Conference Director, 3rd Biennial Accessing the Divine Conference and 5th Annual Boisi Center Graduate Student Conference: Accessing the Divine: Religious Sources of Resilience in an Age of Political Turmoil. The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College & The Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium. 5 April 2025.
- Conference Director, 4th Annual Boisi Center Graduate Student Conference: Digital Humanity?: Artificial Intelligence, Spirituality, and the Art of Human Connection. Boston College. 23 March 2024.
- Conference Co-Director, 2nd Annual Accessing the Divine Conference: Interdependent Bodies: Creation, Disability, and Reimagining Relationality. Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium & Boston College. 3 March 2023.
- Conference Co-Director, 1st Annual Accessing the Divine Conference: Disability, Embodiment, and Claiming Joyous Futures. Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium & Boston University. 25 March 2022.
Conference Presentations
- “Dangerous Binaries: Girard in Conversation with Crip and Queer Theories.” Colloquium on Violence and Religion. American Academy of Religion. Boston, MA. November 2025 (upcoming).
- Panelist, “Book Panel: Enfleshed Counter-Memory: A Christian Social Ethic of Trauma.” Psychology and the Other. Boston College. September 2025.
- “Disabled Agency and the Contours of Healing.” Catholic Theological Society of America. Portland, OR. June 2025.
- Panelist, "Disability Activism, Academics, and Ministry in Boston and Beyond." Institute for Theology and Disability. Boston College. June 2024.
- “Risking Resurrection: Agency, Phenomenology, and the Feminist Ethic of Risk.” Catholic Theological Society of America. Baltimore, MD. June 2024.
- “The Contours of Freedom: Sources of Agency in the Process of Identity (Re)construction.” Mimetic Theory and Political Theology: Paths to Overcome Polarization. Beyond Global Violence Initiative. Boston College. February 2024.
- “Liberating Disability: Crip Time and the Theological Mediation of Existential Freedom.” Liberating Spatiality and Temporality. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2023.
- “Crip Time as Messianic Time: Insights from the Disabled Body on Temporality and Futurity.” American Academy of Religion. Denver, CO. November 2022.
- “Identity Crisis: Girard, Longeran, and the Principles of Christian Political Engagement.” Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Graduate Student Conference: Religious Activism, Political Change; Political Activism, Religious Change. Boston College. February 2022.
- “Art and Disability: An Image-Driven Framework for Justice.” The Imago Dei Conference: The Image of God through the Arts. Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. October 2018.
Leadership in the Academy
- Invited lecturer, “Disability Ethics and Crip Time,” in Disability Ethics graduate seminar, Dr. Emma McDonald, Villanova University, October 2025 (upcoming).
- Invited Session convener by request of the President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, “Hope, Health, and the Nature of Healing: Insights from Disability and Trauma Theologies.” Catholic Theological Society of America. Portland, OR. June 2025.
- Invited member, Task Force on Disability, Associate of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. December 2024–July 2025.
- Invited lecturer, “Disability and Moral Agency,” in Moral Agency graduate seminar, Dr. Kristin Heyer, Boston College, November 2024.
- “Bodies of Hope.” Colloquium presentation in systematic theology area, Boston College. October 2022.
- “Enfleshed Hope: Disability and the Divine Encounter.” Boston College Grad Talks Symposium. April 2018.