Mayra Rivera

Mayra Rivera is a scholar of religion who is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University.

Biography Rivera was born and raised in Puerto Rico. After first receiving a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Rivera received a PhD (2005) in theological and religious studies from Drew University. Her current work examines the impact of climate change from a Caribbean perspective.

Works Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire (edited with Catherine Keller and Michael Nausner, Chalice Press, 2004) The Touch of Transcendence (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology (edited with Stephen D. Moore, Fordham University, 2010) Poetics of the Flesh (Duke University, 2015)