Professor Hamner specializes in religion and culture and teaches at the intersections of continental philosophy, feminist and gender theories, and media/film theory. She is the author of American Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy (Oxford: 2002) and Religion and Film: The Politics of Nostalgia (Palgrave: 2012) and is currently working on a manuscript that rethinks the public sphere and the place of religion within the public sphere in light of our intensely hyperlinked and socially mediated world.

• 2013 Full Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University
• 2008 Associated faculty for the Women and Gender Studies Program, Syracuse University.
• 2005-present Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Syrause University.
• 1998-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University.
• 1997-1998 Lecturer, Duke University, Religion Department.

• Response to Sara Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life, in Syndicate. (Jan-Feb 2018).
• Working on a chapter on "Scorsese as a critic of modernity" for a volume on Scorsese edited by Chris Barnett of Villanova.
• "Matters of Place: Placing Religion in Film", Material Religions: Exploring the material basis of religious traditions, 7/24/2017"
• Askesis and the Logic of the Spiral," Theology and Sexuality 22:3 (2017), 143-154. (Published online June 26, 2017)
• "Sensing Religion in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men," in Religions, December 2015.
• “Filming Reconciliation: Affect and Nostalgia in The Tree of Life,” in The Journal of Religion and Film, spring 2014.
• “Work and Life in the Balance,” short ‘round-table’ contribution to Religious Studies News, spring 2015.
• “Acting in Common: How the Flesh of Multitude can become Incarnate Words against Empire”, in Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo, ed. B.E. Benson and P. Heltzel (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2008), pp. 43-53.
• “What is an Act?: Reflexive Action in Pragmatism and Praxis Philosophy,” PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, November, 2003.
• “The Work of Love”, in Opting for the Margins: Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology, ed. Joerg Rieger, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• "Cultural Saints", in Luis León and Gary Laderman, eds., Religion and American Culture (Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2014).

• 2017
  • Sept Workshop/conference, "Conflicted Bodies: Feminist and Queer Responses to Militarism and Violence" at Goldsmiths College in London on 9/30.
  • Nov "The Filmic Institution of Place in Moonlight" at the Merleau-Ponty Circle, "The Significance of Place" in Albuquerque on 11/3.
• 2016
  • Nov “Genealogy of Affect and Technologies of Mediation” for Got Genealogy session of the Cultural History and the Study of Religion Group, AAR San Antonio, November.
• 2015
  • Feb “Affect Theory as a Tool for Examining Religion Documentaries.” John Corrigan’s AAR Grant Symposium on Religion and Affect. National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, NC.
  • Oct “Justice and Forgiveness, Wombs and Strangers: A Response to Claire Katz” Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, MA
  • Oct “Affect and Religion Documentaries”. Worldings/Tensions/Futures, Affect Theory Conference. Lancaster PA.
  • Nov “Eros and Ascesis: A Response to Lynne Huffer.” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA (Social Theory and Religion Group)
  • Nov “Secularity, Sacrifice, Impasse”. American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA (Philosophy of Religion Section)
• 2014
  • Apr “Mask and Materiality in Sembene’s Black Girl”, International Conference on Religion and Film, Omaha Nebraska, April 10-12.
    • • Interviewed by Kristian Petersen for his New Books in Religion podcast on my book Imaging Religion in Film
  • Sept “Light as Eternity: The Temporal Dynamics of No Country for Old Men”, International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Leuven Belgium, Sept 18-20.
  • Nov The American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, San Diego, CA
    • “Mediated Affect”, for the Religion and Media Workshop, Nov. 21
    • “Foucault, Affect, and Social Power”, for the Critical Theories and Discourses on Religion Group, Nov. 22
• 2013
  • Apr Invited public lecture on Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men at Haverford College
  • Nov The American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, Baltimore, MD
    • “Religion as anti-consumerism in the Coens’ The Man Who Wasn’t There” for the Religion, Film and Visual Culture Group
    • “Affect and Religion,” for the Theology and Religious Reflection Group