Donovan O Schaefer

Donovan O. Schaefer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the department in 2017 after spending three years teaching at the University of Oxford. His first book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution and Power , was published by Duke University Press in 2015. It explores the relationships between theories of feeling, religion, and the experience of animals. His second book, Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism...See more

Donovan O. Schaefer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the department in 2017 after spending three years teaching at the University of Oxford. His first book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution and Power , was published by Duke University Press in 2015. It explores the relationships between theories of feeling, religion, and the experience of animals. His second book, Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin , considers how affect theory can be applied to science, secularism, race, and conspiracy theory. See less