Helena Martin

Helena L. Martin is a PhD student in Religious Studies at Yale University, where she is also earning a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She studies disability, demons, monsters, and “magic” in the worlds of early Christianity, especially the New Testament. Her examination of deviance in the first few centuries of the Common Era draws on critical theory; Greco-Roman medicine and religion; and visual and material culture.

Helena holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Sacred Theology (STM) from Yale Divinity School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Minor: Religious Studies) from Eugene Lang College at the New School University in New York City. She is also an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church.

Additional areas of interest:
late antiquity; critical disability studies; bodies and embodiment; history of medicine; new materialism; monster theory; demonology.