Loyola University Chicago

Department of Theology

Zaccary Haney

EMAIL

zhaney@luc.edu

STANDING

PhD Candidate 

DISSERTATION DIRECTOR

Miguel Diaz

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mysticism, medieval Christianity, monasticism, phenomenology, queer theologies, philosophy of religion, theories of self

PUBLICATIONS

“Into Queer Silence: Resistance to the Theological Voice,” DARE Global Queer Theologies, eds. Hugo Córdova Quero, Lisa Isherwood, Graham Mcgeoch & Ebin Thankachan. In progress.

“Mystical Erotics: Cistercian Abbots, Bodies, and Theological Subjectivity,” Proceedings II Simposio Internacional de Teorías y Teologías Queer, eds. Miguel Díaz and Hugo Córdova Quero, translated into Spanish by Kathleen Griffin as “La Erótica Mística: Abades Cistercienses, Cuerpos y Subjetividad.” Under review.

“When the Saints Go Marching In: Mapping the History of a Devotion through Cultural Need,” AiM: Liturgy Resources 50, no. 3 (Fall 2019)

“Knowing the Love of God: Catherine of Siena’s Interior Politics of Tranquility,” Oneing: An Alternative Orthodoxy 5, no. 2 (Fall 2017)

PRESENTATIONS

2024 “Into Queer Silence: Resisting the Theological Voice,” Global Queer Theologies, San Salvador, El Salvador. Upcoming.

2024 “Seven Minutes in Heaven Sodom,” Affiliations: Towards a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison, Oxford, UK. Upcoming.

2024 “Life on the Cutting-Edge of the Raft: On the Relationship between Past and Present,” Loyola-Marquette Colloquium, Marquette University, Milwaukee.

2024 “Foolhardy Historians: Desire for Friendship with Persons from the Past,” Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago

2023 “Examine Yourself: Contemplative Practices in Pedagogy,” Theological Pedagogy Symposium, Loyola University Chicago

2023 “‘Queer’ as an Historiographical Problem,” Wonderfully Made @LUC, Loyola University Chicago

2023 “Perverse Convergences: Thinking Theologically Across Time,” Latin American Queer Theologies, San Salvador, El Salvador

2023 “The Time of Divine Arising: Temporal Phenomenology in Early Cistercian Spirituality,” Queer and Trans Studies in Religion, UC Riverside

2023 “What Has Rievaulx to Do with Halsted?: Aelred, Queer Poetical Glances, and Suggestive Ephemera,” Loyola-Marquette Colloquium, Loyola University Chicago

2022 “Theological Becomings: Body as Mystical-Theological Subject in Bernard of Clairvaux,” American Academy of Religion, Denver

2022 “Mystical Erotics: Body as Subject in Bernard of Clairvaux,” II Simposio Internacional de Teorías y Teologías Queer, San José, Costa Rica

2013 “Gift of Humility, Fruit of Hospitality: Reforming Our Communities in Light of the Rule of St. Benedict,” St. Norbert College Senior Religious Studies Capstone Presentations

2013 “A Conversational Piece: Rome, Salus Populi Romani, and the Cult of Relics,” American Academy of Religion Upper Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Paul

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in Religious Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2015

Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, St. Norbert College, 2013

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: 

American Academy of Religion
Society of Christian Ethics
Medieval Association of the Midwest