Visiting Assistant Professor
213D Ellis Hall
Tel. (740) 593-4699
E-mail: battagli@ohio.edu
Office Hours: TBA
OU faculty member since 2007
Education
Ph.D., History and Critical Theories of Religion, Vanderbilt University (2007)
M.A., Religion, Vanderbilt University (2005)
M.A., Women’s Studies, University of Alabama (1999)
B.A., Religion, Duke University (1995)
Specializations
- Asian Religious Traditions
- Buddhism
- Anthropology of Religion
- Women and Religion
- Postcolonial Theory
- Feminist Theory
Courses Taught
Publications
“Conservative Protestant Ideology and Wife Abuse: Reflections on the Discrepancy Between Theory and Data.” Journal of Religion and Abuse, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2001) 31-45.
“On Gendered Discourse and the Maintenance of Boundaries: A Feminist Analysis of the Bhikkhuni Order in Indian Buddhism.” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 4 (1998) 8-60. [Link to full text via ProQuest; restricted access]
“Toward a Buddhist Feminism: Mahayana Sutras, Feminist Theory, and the Transformation of Sex.” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 3 (1997) 8-51. [Link to full text via ProQuest; restricted access]
Presentations
“Women in the Sangha,” Guest Lecture, Vanderbilt University, December 3, 2007.
“Becoming a Buddhist Nun: The Perspectives of Thai Mae Chis on the Bhikkhuni Ordination Movement in Thailand,” Colloquium in Classics and World Religions, Ohio University, October 31, 2007.
“Women Who Have Gone Forth: Gender and Religious Identity Among Buddhist Nuns in Thailand,” Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1, 2007.
“Mae Chi or Bhikkhuni? Perspectives on Women’s Ordination in Buddhist Thailand,” Robert Penn Warren Graduate Student Fellows Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 25, 2007.
“Feminist Research on Gender and Religious Identity Among Buddhist Nuns in Thailand: Methodological Considerations and Cultural Constraints,” The 9th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 17-21, 2006.
“From Sexual Asceticism to Sexual Consumerism: Buddhism, Prostitution, and the Sexual Spectrum in Thai Society,” The International Conference on Religion and Globalization, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 27-August 2, 2003.
“Reading the Female Body: Yakshi Iconography in Indian Buddhism,” The Fourth Annual Graduate Student Symposium, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, January 29, 1999.
“Threatening the Boundaries of Sex/Gender: A Feminist Perspective on the First Buddhist Nuns’ Order,” The Women’s Studies 25th Anniversary Celebration, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 21, 1998.
October 1997.