Guest
Julia Watts Belser
Dr. Julia Watts Belser is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown, and a core faculty member in their Disabilities Studies Program. She is also a rabbi, a wheelchair user, and queer feminist advocate for disability and gender justice. She researches ethics and theology, as well as gender, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic literature. Julia has written multiple books — including Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem, Power, Ethics, and Ecology: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster, and most recently Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole.