J Selke

Visiting Professor of Religious Studies
Pardee 323
selkej@lafayette.edu

Degrees

  • PhD., University of California, RIverside (2025)
  • MA, University of California, Riverside (2022)
  • BA, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (2019)

Research Interests: 

Christianity and literature in the modern era; Christian and Jewish histories of the Devil; demonization, monstrification, and dehumanization in U.S. religious and political contexts; queer and trans studies in religion; occult and anti-occult literature; modern Satanism, Witchcraft, and Occultism; religion in television, film, and popular culture.