BRENNAN KETTETTLE

Brennan Kettelle holds a Research Master’s degree in Religious Studies, with a focus on Western esotericism (University of Amsterdam, 2021), as well as a Master’s degree in Gender and Cultural Studies (Simmons University, 2018). She is currently a PhD researcher at the HHP (Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents) at the University of Amsterdam, investigating 19th-century associations between Lilith and queerness. Brennan aims to utilize queer and feminist theories and methodologies in examining esotericism, investigating both queer currents within esoteric literature, orders, and figures, as well as esoteric themes within queer subcultures, politics, and histories. Her research interests include Lilith, nineteenth and twentieth-century occultism, sex magic, initiatory orders, esotericism and politics, and conspirituality.

COURSES TAUGHT

The Demoness Lilith: From Wind Spirit to (First) Woman, Her Origins and Cultural Receptions