ANALOUISE KEATING

AnaLouise Keating, Phd is a professor of Multicultural Women's & Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University, teaching courses on Womanist Spiritual Activism, Gloria Anzaldúa, and related topics. Keating is the author, editor, or-co-editor of twelve books, most recently: The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change. Driven by the desire to bring esoteric/occult and Indigenous wisdom traditions into progressive social change and academic spaces, Keating's work focuses on Transformation Studies (Womanist Spiritual Activism, Post-Oppositionality, Invitational Pedagogies, and U.S. Women-of-Colors Theories), with a special emphasis on Gloria Anzaldúa, with whom Keating has worked since the early 1990s. Keating also teaches Yin Yoga and edits a book series, Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, & Indigenous Studies, at the University of Illinois Press. You can learn more about AnaLouise at analouisekeating.com.