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Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Religion and Science and Technology Studies, Wesleyan University

Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Religion and Science and Technology Studies, Wesleyan University Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (Chicago, 2022); Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia, 2019); Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014); and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia, 2009). She is also co-author with Thomas Carlson and Mark C. Taylor of Image: Three Essays in Technology and Imagination; and co-editor with Catherine Keller of Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (Fordham, 2014). Her work has been featured on BBC radio and television, National Public Radio, and the Institute for Arts and Ideas; and she has published articles in The New Scientist, Nautilus, Gizmodo, and The Revealer. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards; recipient of the Iris Book Award in Science, Religion, and Technology; and co-PI of the "Sacred Space" project through Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative.